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THE ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY AND MOODLE IN AN HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY-A STRATEGICAL TOOLAND A LIFE-LONG LEARNING APPROACH

  • January 2007
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Isabel Pedrosa at Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra
Isabel Pedrosa
Carla Sousa at University of Aveiro
Carla Sousa
Demetrios Sampson G Kinshuk
Demetrios Sampson G Kinshuk
Demetrios Sampson G Kinshuk
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Jonathan Michael Spector at University of North Texas
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Abstract

Since 2006, a new LMS platform - Moodle - is available at ISCAC. All the implementation process, the meetings, teachers training, courses available were, at the very beginning, very difficult to implement. After a year, the balance can be considered as positive: now there are new challenges to Moodle and this platform is considered strategic for an important group of students in a life-long learning perspective. However, the obstacles almost dictated that the project would never be more than a paper version. This paper is a reflection about all the difficulties, challenges, changes' acceptance in a large learning community and the way that these drawbacks usually lead to unsuccessful projects.
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