Authors:
Christophe Ponsard
1
;
Joël Chouassi
2
;
Vincent Snoeck
3
;
Anne-Sophie Marchal
3
and
Julie Vanhalewyn
4
Affiliations:
1
CETIC Research Centre, Belgium
;
2
HEPH Condorcet High School, Belgium
;
3
GAMAH asbl, Belgium
;
4
Plain Pied asbl, Belgium
Keyword(s):
E-learning, Blended Learning, Knowledge Sharing, Collaborative Learning, Community Building, Accessibility.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Accessibility to Disabled Users
;
Blended Learning
;
Community Building
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning Success Cases
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Social Context and Learning Environments
;
Ubiquitous Learning
Abstract:
Blended learning, mixing both online and face-to-face learning, is now a well established trend in higher
education and also increasingly used in companies and public sector. While preserving direct contact with
the teacher/trainer, it also provides additional electronic channels to easily share training material and to support
interactions among all actors. This paper focuses on specificities of adult training such as their goal orientation,
the higher level of practicality and the higher level of collaboration. We also deal with the explicit
goal of building communities where learners are progressively sharing their growing experience. Our work is
driven by a real-world case study. We report about how generic e-learning tools available on the market can
be adapted to address the needs of such a use case and also present some lessons learnt.