Transcript eLearning and Intercultural Dimensions of Learning

FeConE
Framework for eContent Evaluation
eLearning and
Intercultural Dimensions
of
Learning Theories
and Teaching Models
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Claire Bélisle, LIRE (CNRS-Univ. Lyon 2)
October 2007
Presentation Plan
 Contextual
considerations

Digital challenge

Epistemological shift
 eLearning,
an opportunity for intercultural
competence
 Cultural
embeddedness of learning and
teaching
 Urgent
need to rethink educational goals
and content in an information/knowledge
society
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Context in
educational institutions
More
and more students are more and
more bored whether they are in schools
or universities.
Teachers
are more and more saying
out loud that kids and students are lazy,
superficial, uncultured and impolite.
There
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were exceptions…
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Contextual considerations
The digital challenge
 Information
Tsunami : 5 exabits of information
produced in 2002, or the equivalent of 35 000
« Library of Congress » (Lyman & Varian,
Berkeley, 2003)
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Factiva: Provider of press information, business
news from 10,000 authoritative sources in 22
languages (192 French press titles)
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Education is largely if not exclusively referring
to paper-based information
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Contextual considerations
Epistemological shift
 Epistemology
has to do with « What is
knowledge ?»
 From
naive realism to cognitive construction
 From
logical positivism and scientific
objectivity to constructivism and situated
processing of information
 Policies
still deal only with “how to educate”
and not with “why educate, for what purpose,
goal, or aim”
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eLearning, an opportunity
for intercultural competence

Intercultural competence:

more than linguistic competence,

skills in understanding, in discovery and interaction
 Involves
the whole dynamics of human
communication
 “iCt”
(Davric) tools can provide a renewed and
situated approach
 eLearning:
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interactivity, live exchanges, etc…
New competences for teachers
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Cultural embeddedness

Tectonics of educational change
Learning
and teaching: academic
activities specialized in


Learning to think
Learning to think with with existing
knowledge
What is “knowledge” in an information/
knowledge society?
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Rethinking goals and aims
Information
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
society:
Tacit and explicit knowledge
Capacity to mass produce information and
knowledge
 Need
to cope with large quantities of
information and of heterogeneous content
 With
what cognitive tools, methods,
taxonomies, strategies, metadata?
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Towards Meta-eContent for
eLearning in an
information/knowledge society?
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