A Platform to Support a Virtual Community of Tutors in Experience Capitalizing

Elise Garrot (1) , Sébastien George (1) , Patrick Prévôt (1)

1 LIESP - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour l'Entreprise et les Systèmes de Production

Nowadays, Information and Communication Technologies change the way students learn. Many researches are centered on the developing of new forms of pedagogy and software for student learning. But ICT also involve changes in teachers roles, which are not yet well defined in particular for on-line tutors. In this article, we develop new ways for tutors to define themselves their “professional identity”, their functions and “good practices”. By providing a platform to develop communities of practice of tutors, we aim at giving them the possibility to share knowledge, experiences and to refer to them in their day-to-day practice. We present a prototype of tutors interface to record and retrieve experiences stored as knowledge in a database.

Mots clés: Virtual Communities of Practice; On-line Tutor; Knowledge Management System; Communication and Information Technologies

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education

Elise Garrot, Sébastien George, Patrick Prévôt. A Platform to Support a Virtual Community of Tutors in Experience Capitalizing. Web Based Communities Conference (WBC 2007), Feb 2007, Salamanca, Spain. p. 103-110. ⟨hal-00165387⟩