Cooperative and Cooperative and collaborative learning in collaborative learning in
virtual environmentsvirtual environments
Cooperative and Cooperative and collaborative learning in collaborative learning in
virtual environmentsvirtual environments
Magdalena AnzorMagdalena [email protected]@yahoo.com.ar
Distance Learning (DL) mediated by ICTs
• Constructivist perspective• Practical rationalization• Situated and distributed
knowledge construction• Building on previous knowledge
(scaffolding)
Historic background• Industrial model based on work division
– mass production – emphasis on the results (50´-60´”fordism”)
• Autonomy and independance of students – exclusion of the teacher from the system (70´ distance universities-behaviourism-multimedia learning pack)
• Interaction and communication – situated learning (80´onwards)
Situated learning based on:
• Practical rationalization which priviledges “doing” rather than “results”
• Knowledge acquisition and what is done in it – the result is a consequence of the process
The process implies:• Interaction with the rest of students.
i.e.: priviledged space for social construction of knowledge through cooperative and collaborative learning
• Work rationalized from a constructivist perspective (not with a utilitarian character)
• At present DL implies using ICTs - Internet
Democratic aspect• Social need to bring education
close to those places with difficult acces to it.
• Education for everybody in equality of conditions
Conclusions• En el contexto actual rescatar el trabajo
colaborativo para “aprender a aprender” como sugirió Delhors.
• Citando a Litwin: “…las nuevas tecnologías ofrecen que nos ayudemos unos a otros…..lo que implica la ayuda y la colaboración… Necesitamos desde las aulas enseñar a caminar con el otro…” (Litwin 2005; 9)
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