Collaborative environment

• Collaborative mapping (i.e. reading a node from another persons understanding of that concept)
• Collaborative discussions (i.e. listening to someone else explain a concept or node in class)
• Signs of life (i.e. users monitor other users activity)
• Competition between users (i.e. who makes a post first)

Learning through thinking

• Practicing metacognition (i.e. deciding whether to upvote/downvote and whether to improve a node or not)

Structure

• Synthesis of an online platform and traditional ways of learning (i.e. classroom discussions using hierarchical ordering od nodes)

Transparency

• Transparency in moderation (i.e. seeing someone else's reasoning for post and upvoting/downvoting)
• Transparency of content (i.e. seeing a reference someone used for a node)