Μετατοπίζοντας την εστίαση από το περιεχόμενο στην παιδαγωγική κατά το σχεδιασμό των ανοιχτών κοινοτήτων μάθησης

Abstract

It is clear that at least up to now, face-to-face communication still maintains its core role in getting people together. However, educational technology has proven its full potential by including a number of interspersed individuals and isolated teams in a new dynamic space. It can also offer them powerful tools to cooperate and the choice of time and space to work in. Introducing online interaction in the design of an educational environment involves adopting a different pedagogy from a face-to-face tutorial. Not only does it mean knowledge transfer; it encourages exchange of ideas and a number of useful connections between the material and the participants. These possibilities by themselves are the token for the need of some new pedagogy for online educational communities. In the following paper, an effort has been made to delineate this new philosophy by offering some points concerning the  design  and  the learning outcomes educators are due to expect.