EduLab Portal Thinking The EduLab Concept
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As a participative web
service, EduLab is based on the concept of self expression, connection with
peers, whereas motivation lays not on economic reasons but on the enthusiasm
for the subject discussed and on the power to select, customise and rate
contents according to user’s own need and taste.
EduLab
borrows the Thomas
Friedman’s concept of flat world , based on free competition and equal
opportunity. In this framework, EduLab makes available to all interested
people, amateurs and professionals, a common space for debate and discussion on
the chosen topics.
EduLab is inspired by a bottom up and participative approach based on non
hierarchical relations, with rules governing interactions among users.
In a digitally connected, rapidly evolving world, we must transcend the
traditional Cartesian models of learning that prescribe “pouring knowledge into
somebody’s head,” says John Seely Brown. We learn through our
interactions with others and the world, he says, and there’s no more perfect
medium for enabling this than an increasingly open and organized World Wide
Web. (Relearning Learning-Applying the Long Tail to Learning, MIT World 2007 - Watch the Video )
What does EduLab offer?
Users' customized and tailored learning paths can be easily built and saved. Re-Searching and selecting any relevant material in EduLab Library allows to create an intimate choice to learn while re-mixing and mashing-up contents.
EduLab does not offer a pre-defined type of learning sources. EduLab supports the idea that knowledge expresses itself in web of diverse ways.
Therefore, EduLab does not offer learning packages to take or to leave. Instead, the learning experience is based on the learners' freedom to choose how to develop passions and skills according to taste and self-interest.
EduLab non hierarchical approach puts trainers and learners as peer players in the learning paths.
EduLab
online training courses are never-ending and never the same as the day before.
Learning is a co- evolving process.
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