Du LMS à l’environnement de travail personnel

Une recherche de l’Université de Aarhus publiée dans l’European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning conclut à la nécessité de limiter l’usage des LMS aux tâches administratives, et encourage les étudiants à mettre au point leur propre environnement de travail sur l’Internet.

The article argues that it is necessary to move e-learning beyond learning management systems and engage students in an active use of the web as a resource for their self-governed, problem-based and collaborative activities. The purpose of the article is to discuss the potential of social software to move e-learning beyond learning management systems. An approach to use of social software in support of a social constructivist approach to e-learning is presented, and it is argued that learning management systems do not support a social constructivist approach which emphasizes self-governed learning activities of students. The article suggests a limitation of the use of learning management systems to cover only administrative issues. Further, it is argued that students’ self-governed learning processes are supported by providing students with personal tools and engaging them in different kinds of social networks.

S’adapter au web, trouver les applications qui nous conviennent et créer notre propre environnement adapté à notre manière de travailler et de collaborer, ou comme déjà dit ailleurs, à notre représentation de la connaissance, c’est s’affranchir des limites et contraintes inhérentes aux applications généralistes à prétention universelle.

This article will discuss the use of centralized and integrated LMS and argue that they, within a framework of a social constructivist pedagogy, should play only a minor role within organization of e-learning. It is argued that social software tools can support a social constructivist approach to e-learning by providing students with personal tools and engaging them in social networks. Using social software in this way requires that organization of e-learning moves beyond centralized and integrated LMS and towards a variety of separate tools which are used and managed by the students in relation to their self-governed work […]

Collaborative tools could be wikis, discussion forums, file sharing, and, to a certain extent, weblogs.

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Via Distance-Educator.com