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Introduction The professional doctorate is specifically designed for professionals investigating real-world problems and relevant issues for a profession, industry, and/or the community. The focus is scholarly research into professional practices. The research programme bridges academia and the professions, and offers doctoral candidates the opportunity to investigate issues relevant to their own practices and to apply these understandings to their professional contexts. The study on which this article is based sought to track the scholarly skill development of a cohort of professional doctoral students who commenced the course in January 2008 at an Australian university. Because they hold positions of responsibility and are time-poor, many doctoral students have difficulty transitioning from professional practitioner to researcher and scholar. The struggle many experience is in the development of a theoretical or conceptual standpoint for argumentation (Lesham, 2007; Weese et al., 1999). It was thought that the use of a scaffolded learning environment that drew upon a blended learning approach incorporating face to face intensive blocks and collaborative knowledge-building tools such as wikis would provide a data source for understanding the development of scholarly skills. Wikis, weblogs and similar social networking software have the potential to support communities to share, learn, create and collaborate. The development of a wiki page by each candidate in the 2008 cohort was encouraged to provide the participants and the teaching team members with textual indicators of progress. Learning tasks were scaffolded with the expectation that the candidates would complete these tasks via the wikis. The expectation was that cohort members would comment on each other’s work, together with the supervisor and/or teaching team member who was allocated to each candidate. The supervisor is responsible for supervising the candidate’s work through to submission of the thesis fo

View looking north over Sumner School towards Mississippi River. Lyndale Ave. N is the tree-lined street running diagonally through the center of the photograph. Lyndale intersects with 7th St. N near the center of photograph. Schools are numbered in photo 1. Blaine 2. Sumner. Kenesseth Israel Synagogue is in lower right quadrant. Broadway Ave. Bridge is in distance. 6th Ave. N would later be named Olson Memorial Highway. Sumner Field Homes would be built in this area in 1938., Aerial

View looking north over Washburn School. Long street running vertically on right side of photo is Nicollet Avenue. Washburn High School, under construction in this image, opened in 1925.Schools are numbered in photograph 1. Barton 2. Rosedale 3. Fuller 4. Washburn High., Aerial

View looking west over Keewaydin School towards Lake Nokomis. Keewaydin school appears to be under construction. The school opened in 1928., Aerial

View looking northeast over Victory Memorial Drive towards Crystal Lake Cemetery and the Mississippi River. Schools are numbered in photograph 1. Penn 2. McKinley., Aerial

View looking northwest over Minnehaha School towards Lake Hiawatha. Schools are numbered in photograph 1. Nokomis Jr. High 2. Minnehaha. Both schools appear to be under construction. Nokomis school, built in 1920, was undergoing a renovation. Minnehaha School opened in 1928. The old Minnehaha School is located between Nokomis and the new Minnehaha., Aerial

View looking northwest towards Washburn and Ramsey Schools in Tangletown. View shows progress of work on the athletic field between the schools. Nicollet Avenue cuts across the lower right corner of the photograph. Ramsey Junior High opened in 1931., Aerial

View looking northeast between Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles. Curved street with boulevard is Sunset Boulevard. It joins with France Avenue. Lake Street runs diagonally from center bottom to center right edge. Grain elevators of the Cereal Grading Company. The Jones-Harrison residence for the aged is the large complex on the edge of the lake. Schools are numbered in photograph 1. Alcott 2. Kenwood. Alcott was a two-classroom school building which operated from 1921 to 1940., Aerial

View looking northeast over Nokomis School, the former Minnehaha School, towards Minnehaha Creek. School is numbered in photograph. Excavation is for an expansion of the school., Aerial

View looking northeast towards Longfellow School, numbered in the photograph. Minnehaha Avenue runs diagonally at the bottom of the photograph. Lake Street runs from center left to upper right corner., Aerial

View looking north over Washburn School and Excavation site of future Ramsey School. The excavation site was previously the Washburn Memorial Orphan Asylum., Aerial

View looking northeast towards the Mississippi River. Lake Street cuts across the photo and crosses the Mississippi River. Johnson School is in the foreground., Aerial

View looking northwest over Revere School. The school was a portable school only open for the first half of 1925. The edge of the park is visible along top edge., Aerial

View looking northeast towards Audubon School. School is numbered in photograph. Note significant portions of wooded area between houses., Aerial

View looking northeast across South Minneapolis. Schools are numbered 1. Central 2. Bryant 3. Agassiz 4. Rosedale 5. Barton. The Sears Building on Lake Street is the large building visible in the far distance., Aerial

View looking northeast over Lind School towards Mississippi River. Permanent School was completed nearby in 1937. The City Workhouse and Sanatorium (formerly Hopewell Hospital until 1924) are on the right edge of photo. The school site is centered between 52nd and 49th Avenues North. The Minneapolis Water Works building is across the river., Aerial

View looking northeast over Edison School. A homecoming football game between Edison and Marshall is being played on the adjacent field. Monroe St. NE runs between the school and the athletic field., Aerial

View looking northeast over Lyndale School. Garfield Ave. runs diagonally from upper left to lower right corner., Aerial

View looking northeast over Hiawatha Ave. towards Simmons School. Schools are numbered in photo 1. Simmons 2. Longfellow 3. Johnson., Aerial

View looking north over Edison High School's football field, where a homecoming game between Edison and Marshall is in progress. Monroe St. NE runs between the school and the Athletic Field., Aerial

View looking northeast towards Keewaydin and Minnehaha neighborhoods from Wenonah neighborhood. 58th Street runs from bottom center to right side of photo. Schools are numbered 1. Keewaydin 2. Nokomis 3. Old Minnehaha 4. Minnehaha., Aerial

View looking northwest across Ramsey School construction site., Aerial

View looking southwest from the corner of Central and Hennepin Avenues. Hennepin is in the center and crosses through Nicollet Island. East Vocational School is numbered in photograph. East Vocational was formerly East High, and was converted in 1927. The school closed in 1932 and Vocational moved to a new building downtown at 3rd Ave. S and 11th St. S. Note the East Side Station for streetcars on the right edge of photo. Princess Theatre is the white building right of center., Aerial

View looking northeast over Edison School. School is numbered in photograph. School is between Monroe and Quincy Streets NE. Central Avenue begins at center of left edge and runs up to top center., Aerial

View looking northeast. Snow covers the ground. Formerly the Mazda Lamp Works building, a division of General Electric Co. that made light bulbs, the building was purchased by the Minneapolis Board of Education in 1930. It was used as a repair shop, storage facility, and eventually, in 1948, became the administration building for the district. The school district sold the site in 2013., Aerial

View looking northwest towards Pratt School, top center. Mississippi River is on the left edge. Shriner's Hospital is in foreground, on East River Road., Aerial

View looking northeast along Hennepin Ave. toward Loring Park (in upper right corner). Douglas School, on Dupont and Franklin Ave., is numbered in the center of the photograph., Aerial

View looking northwest. Schools are numbered 1. Marshall High 2. Marcy. Northrop Memorial Auditorium and the 10th Avenue Bridge are under construction. Both were completed in 1929., Aerial

View looking north over Sheridan School and new Sheridan School, under construction. The old school would be demolished when the new school was complete., Aerial

View looking northeast over Henry School. Schools are numbered in photograph 1. Henry 2. Hamilton. Victory Memorial Parkway, dotted with trees, is in the upper third of the photo., Aerial

View looking northwest at Keewaydin School. 30th Ave. S and 52nd St. E intersect above the school. School construction was completed in 1928. Field is still dug up. This is a zoomed in photo of MPS06939., Aerial

View looking northwest towards the University of Minnesota. Schools are numbered in photograph 1. Motley 2. Marshall. Franklin Ave. Bridge crosses the Mississippi in the center. Interstate Highway 94 would later cut through this area., Aerial

View looking northwest over Whitney School. Schools are numbered in photograph 1. Pillsbury 2. Whitney. Johnson St. NE runs to the left of Windom Park., Aerial

View looking northwest from intersection of 54th St. E and Minnehaha Ave. "East of Minnehaha Site" is numbered in photograph. A temporary school was built here in 1927 and demolished in 1929., Aerial

View looking northeast from New Minnehaha School towards Old Minnehaha School. New Minnehaha opened in 1928 and was renamed Nokomis Junior High School in 1929. Schools are numbered on photographed 1. Old Minnehaha 2. New Minnehaha., Aerial

View looking northwest across the Fulton neighborhood. Schools are numbered on photograph 1. Bell Sr. High Site (proposed) 2. Fulton 3. Lake Harriet 4. Palmer Jr. High Site. Palmer Junior High was eventually opened as Southwest Senior High School, and the Bell High site became the track and football field for Southwest instead., Aerial

View looking northwest over Southwest High School. The school was built in 1940. Lake Harriet School is in the distance. Chowen Ave. S connects the two schools. On the left, France Ave. S forms the border between Edina and Minneapolis., Aerial

View looking northwest at Foshay Tower, which is almost complete. Vocational High School is numbered in photograph. Foshay was completed in 1929., Aerial

View looking northeast over Prescott School (on Lowry Avenue) towards Lowry School. Schools are numbered in photograph 1. Lowry 2. Prescott., Aerial

View looking northwest over Keewaydin School. 30th Ave. S cuts through the photo from lower left corner. 53rd Street E runs horizontally along the bottom. Note the dirt pile beside the school and the dug out field. The school was opened in 1928. A small corner of Lake Nokomis is visible in the upper left corner., Aerial

View looking east between Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun. Alcott School is the small white building right of center, below the Cereal Grading Company grain elevators. Lake Street runs vertically along right side and Sunset Boulevard curves through the center, intersecting with France Avenue. A house is under construction in the foreground. Alcott was a two-classroom school building which operated from 1921 to 1940., Aerial

View looking northeast over Van Cleve School. School is numbered in photograph. Lowry Ave. NE runs from bottom left corner to center right. The cemetery is top center. Note the portable units on the school grounds., Aerial