Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sousse
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7144-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2010.217
