A traditional classroom at London South Bank University (9675)

This modern university still relies on this formal arrangement to deliver knowledge to the consuming audience.

Communities of Practice
'One possible way forward is offered by Communities of Practice, which provide an environment for people to develop knowledge through interaction with others in an environment where knowledge is created, nurtured and sustained.

'We act within a social and physical world and since knowing is an aspect of action it is about interaction with that world.  When we act, we either give shape to the physical world or both.  Thus 'knowing' does not focus on what we possess in our heads it focuses on our interactions with the things of the social and physical world.'
( Cook & Seely Brown, 1999 : 388)

Duality of knowledge