There are four components that form the infrastructure of an educational setting. The knowledge creation should consist of deliberately designed technical, social, epistemic, and cognitive support structures.
Techical component consists of devices, tools, infrastructure like wifi etc. Social component is about the interaction and community aspects of learning. Epistemic is about the nature and the processes of addressing the substance. Cognitive is how the learners become conscious about their own learning processes.
What makes this framework handy is the table that makes it handy to list the plans ("design features") and the reflection & evaluation. The table below is taken from this slide set for the Online Educa Berlin Learning Cafe. (Contrary to the Conference Highlights text our whole team is there to keep all six tables engaged.)
My research paper is more comprehensive on the framework and the unshortened table is on p. 15-16. The article by Lakkala et al. in Academia.edu is one of my original sources.
