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Preparing for Blended e-Learning
Preparing for Blended e-Learning
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This paper investigates a specific technology-enhanced learning scenario where formal and informal practices intertwine and contribute to the improvement of individual learning. In particular, we have explored how the students attending a distance learning higher education course (Cognitive Psychology, Uninettuno) have spontaneously started to adopt a set of Web 2.0 resources, commonly used for entertainment and socialization, to organize their learning activity. The wide availability of resources (people, contents, services) and their accessibility is affecting how the learning process can be managed and guided: control of the contents is shifting from the tutor to an increasingly more autonomous learner. Learners not only have access to these resources, they also have the possibility to create groups and negotiate with peers contents and meanings. Spontaneous Facebook groups and other self-organized learning communities are emerging as side-products of formal on-line learning courses: hybrid networks of learners exchange information, contents, resources.