Title :
Lifelong learning implementations in virtual communities: formal and informal approaches and their impact on learners
Author :
Casagranda, Milena ; Colazzo, Luigi ; Molinari, Andrea ; Tomasini, Sara ; Villa, Nicola
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Manage. Sci., Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy
Abstract :
The work 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. The system started its work in the late 90s and was then rewritten under the increasing need of the users to promote new more collaboration-oriented forms of teaching / learning, compared to traditional ones. Currently we are managing the evolution of the system in the direction to provide a better support for cooperative activities among users. In the work we will describe the evolution of this system, showing why the cooperation in an educational environment requires coherent architectural choices.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; distance learning; learning systems; teaching; University of Trento; collaboration; e-Learning system; educational environment; faculty of economics; formal approach; informal approach; lifelong learning; teaching; virtual community; Blogs; Communities; Context; Electronic learning; Engineering education; Least squares approximation; collaboration; e-learning; formal and informal learning; lifelong learning; web 2.0;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Amman
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-642-2
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773279
