Tlemcen An international symposium "Learning Environments for communities of practice

Tlemcen An international symposium "Learning Environments for communities of practice. An international symposium on "Learning Environments for the Communities of Practice" (EACP'08) will be held on November 18 and 20 coming in the center of distance education from the University of Abu Bekr Belkaid pole Chetouani by Faculty of Engineering and Science Department, according to Dr. Zaki Sari chairman of the organizing committee. Cee symposium is organized under the auspices of the European project Palette "pedagogically sustained Adaptive Learning Through the exploitation of Tacit and Explicit knowledge", whose goal is the improvement of individual and collective learning members of Communities of Practice ( CoP). The University Aboubekr Belkaid is a partner in the project palette and plays a key role in the dissemination activities through the Community of Practice Southern Mediterranean said Dr. Sari Zaki. Initiated in the 90s, the concept of personal learning environment, was a remarkable development following the rapid development of information technology and communication at 'he added. The management of a shared space and individually, allowing the collection of incremental resources, linking social and discussion with peers, clearly contributes to the acquisition of knowledge and information sharing. Communities of Practice he explained, are a privileged environment in which people are experts and novices learn together to improve and develop their professional practice. They therefore constitute the area par excellence of individual and collective learning. Communities of Practice are increasingly distributed geographically (communities spread over several regions or countries) and an organizational point of view (inter-community or inter-organizational) he explained, and require the use of technology Information to support and develop better learning and therefore practices. However, the expected target a multidisciplinary input on the issue raised. They focus on both aspects information, educational and sociological. The President of the International Symposium Dr. Sari said that the topics of interest include the elements on the learning in communities of practice: case studies, ethnographic studies, sharing and commodification of knowledge in communities of practice, the 'Collaborative learning methods, tools, assessment, learning in the workplace, the creation, use and sharing of multimedia information for collaborative learning services, e-services and Web-services collaborate for learning services, e service and Web-services for the development of communities of practice, interoperability services, Web 2.0 for collaborative learning, Web 2.0 to develop communities of practice, the Web 2.0 for learning in the workplace, the development of innovative user interfaces for collaborative learning and collaborative learning ontologies, ontologies and communities of practice, the Semantic Web tools for collaborative learning, the Semantic Web tools for communities of practice. Mohammed Gadiri October 11 2008