Towards a More Fluid Learning Environment Based on Virtual Communities

Author

Colazzo, Luigi ; Molinari, Andrea ; Villa, Nicola

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Manage. Sci., Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 July 2010

Firstpage

742

Lastpage

743

Abstract

The paper presents our experience as designers, developers and administrators of an e-Learning system (LMS) used by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento. We recently managed the evolution of the system towards the provision of a new Personal Community Space to the user. This approach is, at first sight, quite similar to the new Web 2.0 and social networks interaction spaces. We will briefly introduce the problems related to the integration of these two different approaches into a single environment (learning spaces and social networks), and how to connect these two worlds into one single architecture.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; social networking (online); University of Trento; Web 2.0; e-learning system; faculty of economics; fluid learning environment; personal community space; social network interaction; virtual community; Communities; Context; Electronic learning; Least squares approximation; Presses; Social network services; e-learning; social networks; web 2.0;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7144-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2010.217

Filename

5572679