Social Networks Of Learning On The Internet

The networks of learning are shared spaces, in which, in words of the authors, " ... groups of persons use networks(nets) of communication in computer environments to learn of joint form, in the place, the moment and to the pace that they should prove more opportune and adapted to their task ... " The net, from this point of view, is understood like " ... a window to the world of the learning... "

The idea net of learning implies the break of the traditional concept in the education process - learning of a class, with a teacher, with a few certain materials, etc. It is understood , rather, as an open session to the world, which the principal resources are the Internet and the people who connect across the network, being involved in the formative process. This allows to re-conceptualize not only the process itself, but also the elements that take part in it, the roles that up to the moment they were developing, at the same time that it makes a possible frame adapted to rethink the role of the educational institutions that integrate it and make it possible.

the adantages of the social nets of learning are a lot, but we can stand some out:

• It provides with a major flexibility in the environment of learning.
• It makes the learning possible in collaboration and the work in group.
• The learning is active and automanaged.
• It allows the diversification in the roles of the participants: pupils, teachers, new profiles.
• It connects the class to the exterior(foreign) world
• Promotes a major knowledge of the new technologies