Endowing LOs with a social dimension

Abstract

Repositories of learning objects have the potential to support teachers' work and diffuse innovation in the school, nevertheless they did not arouse much interest from the teachers so far. We argue that this problem could be overcome by adding to repositories possibilities of focused interaction and collaboration among teachers, so as to foster reflection and value teachers' experience. To this end, we modelled the re-use process as a constructive activity. We implemented this view by means of a collaborative environment explicitly oriented to work with learning objects. In this paper, we describe our pedagogical view of re-use and the environment we realized, highlighting the interplay between individual reflection and social dimension. We also summarise the outcomes of the first use of the environment in a teacher training course. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.