Effectivement, un tel article manque de sérieux malgré son titre ronflant, en s'abstenant de toute référence... Bonne critique de Stephen Downes. Les caractères gras sont de moi.

Preliminary Heuristics for the Design and Evaluation of Online Communities of Practice Systems. Though they claim to have discovered "uncovered additional issues previously unrecognized" (...)

All of this could be taken (almost word for word) from Howard Rheingold, Cliff Figallo or Hegel and Armstrong in the mid to late 90s. Would it have hurt to acknowledge the source - not to mention the age - of this advice?

(..) The combination of instant messaging, mobile computing, weblogs and content syndication have made that idea obsolete.

So what should a proper - and original - article about learning communities in 2003 look like? It should shift the focus from an institutional environment to an individual's access to a set of services. It should discuss the creation of a distributed network of interacting knowledge workers (or knowledge seekers). It should talk about fostering a set of communication channels - such as email newsletters, aggregator websites, IM advice circles. It should address combining the roles of gaming, simulation, correspondance, commentary and assessment. It should emphasize the skill sets required in order to foster the creation of knowledge through a collaborative process. By Mark Notess and Josh Plaskoff, eLearn Magazine, January, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]

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