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In recent years, Architecture education has shifted from an individual focused approach to a larger system of interacting individuals in a situated, technology-mediated and socio-technical context. Both formal and informal use of web-portals and online-platforms are playing an increasingly important role in this shift by broadening the boundaries of universities, providing access to multi-media course materials, facilitating online collaboration and online assessment of the taught modules (Mizban & Roberts 2008). A common observation is that a majority of the existing use of online platforms are based on top-down, instructional principles which do not reflect the dynamic, collective and situated knowledge building process of the learner(s). However, design-based courses, such as architectural design, are not based on instructional processes but rather on interaction and experience, based on the principles of constructivist learning (Kipcak 2007)... We regard Design knowledge as a..