Virtual communities for learning and new technologies

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Stefania Manca
Luigi Sarti

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Communities' virtual learning are of particular interest now in training as they seem to definitively establish a theoretical and methodological paradigm shift. The constructivist idea has, in fact, gradually replaced the traditional model of knowledge transfer, that learning means being able to produce knowledge and skills 'objectively measurable, decontextualized and having the force of truth' objective, universally comparable.

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