Title: E-learning: a model and process proposal

Authors: Giovannina Albano, Matteo Gaeta, Saverio Salerno

Addresses: DIIMA – Centre of Excellence in Methods and Systems for Learning and Knowledge, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano – SA, Italy. ' DIIMA – Centre of Excellence in Methods and Systems for Learning and Knowledge, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano – SA, Italy. ' DIIMA – Centre of Excellence in Methods and Systems for Learning and Knowledge, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano – SA, Italy

Abstract: The advent of the new technologies has brought the proliferation of artificial environments in distance and blended learning. Most of the efforts have been addressed to the mere |transfer| of paper and pen. Thus, we proposed the following theoretical reflection on the learning processes: studying classical didactics that have been revised from the point-of-view of distance learning, individuating the new actors interacting in the didactics, and deducing a possible learning model. The theoretical reflection, presented in its model and conceptual aspects, finds its application in the realisation of an e-learning platform, IWT. The advantages of the state-of-the-art learning are also shown in this paper. However, this work is essentially limited to a general positioning of e-learning and to a presentation motivated by the choices we have made in the theoretical, architectural, functional, and technological fields.

Keywords: e-learning; learning models; distance learning; didactics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2006.009680

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2006 Vol.2 No.1/2, pp.73 - 88

Published online: 04 May 2006 *

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