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The Role of Context When Implementing Learning Environments: Some Key Issues

The Role of Context When Implementing Learning Environments: Some Key Issues

Bernard Blandin
Copyright: © 2006 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781591404880|ISBN10: 1591404886|EISBN13: 9781591404903
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-488-0.ch004
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Blandin, Bernard. "The Role of Context When Implementing Learning Environments: Some Key Issues." Managing Learning in Virtual Settings: The Role of Context, edited by Antonio Dias de Figueiredo and Ana Paula Afonso, IGI Global, 2006, pp. 62-83. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-488-0.ch004

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Blandin, B. (2006). The Role of Context When Implementing Learning Environments: Some Key Issues. In A. de Figueiredo & A. Afonso (Eds.), Managing Learning in Virtual Settings: The Role of Context (pp. 62-83). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-488-0.ch004

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Blandin, Bernard. "The Role of Context When Implementing Learning Environments: Some Key Issues." In Managing Learning in Virtual Settings: The Role of Context, edited by Antonio Dias de Figueiredo and Ana Paula Afonso, 62-83. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2006. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-488-0.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter presents some outcomes of current research on the role of contextwhen implementing learning environments. It first sets the theoretical and empiri-cal scene of current research on learning, which leads to the conclusion that thereis a general agreement on the fact that context influences learning activities. Sec-ondly, the chapter shows how theories of learning materialize and give form to thephysical and organizational structure of educational and training institutions.Then, it analyses why institutional praxis applying a given theory of learning mayconflict with the implementation of new learning environments. Finally, it providessome sociological guidelines to facilitate the implementation of a new learningparadigm within an organization. With this chapter, the author intends to promotethe use of sociology to better understand what is at stake when implementing newlearning environments.

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