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Interactive course ยท 7 weeks

The Distributed Inquiry Laboratory

For The Research Table Has No Address

Build rigorous, traceable, collaborative research across distance, discipline, and institutional boundary.

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Shared Inquiry Beyond Place

Course outcome

Produce a Virtual Research Table charter with question, roles, provenance, methods, review, authorship, and dissemination.

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Begin with the opening check-in.

Opening check-in

Locate your present starting point.

These entries remain private and help you compare the beginning with the completed course.

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Module 1

Set the common question

Create a precise inquiry that can coordinate distributed contributors.

Interactive practice

Draft a shared question and contribution boundaries.

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Module 2

Protect provenance

Preserve source, version, decision, and authorship records across the work.

Interactive practice

Build a provenance ledger.

03

Module 3

Design collaboration

Clarify roles, handoffs, review rights, disagreement, and publication pathways.

Interactive practice

Create a distributed research operating agreement.

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Module 4

Synthesize across distance

Integrate varied evidence and perspectives without erasing difference.

Interactive practice

Run a structured synthesis on a small evidence set.

Knowledge check

Which opening movement begins this course?

Select the first module in the designed learning sequence.

Integration record

Produce a Virtual Research Table charter with question, roles, provenance, methods, review, authorship, and dissemination.

Write the core commitments, evidence, people, timing, and review rhythm you will carry forward.

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Shared Inquiry Beyond Place

A complete digital work about distributed research, shared inquiry, evidence, provenance, collaboration, and scholarly belonging beyond place.

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