Collaborative E-Learning: Towards Designing an Innovative Architecture for an Educational Virtual Environment

eLearning Informatics: From Automation of Educational Activities to Intelligent Solutions Building

“…Among the well-established educational theories used in eLearning are: (1) behaviorism -explains how the learner changes his behavior during learning process according to the input stimuli and he depends of the knowledge transfer from the teacher; (2) cognitivism -sees the learner's changing behavior based on development of his cognitive process of mind; (3) constructivism -describes how the learner constructs his own knowledge interacting with learning materials and by experience; (4) active learning -the learner is actively involved in the learning process through interactions and doing (Pange and Pange, 2011;Picciano, 2017;Hadjerrouit, 2007); ( 5) social learning -the learner changes his behavior during the learning process based on experience or observation the behavior of others (Quigley, 2018); (6) blended learning -learning occurs in environment that combines eLearning and face-to-face techniques (Gambari et al, 2017). Several new learning theories are introduced like: (1) personalized learning -the instruction is individualized for the concrete learner who directs his own learning (Redding, 2013); (2) adaptive learning -the learning path is constructed according to the learner's characteristics and achievements (Shelle et al, 2018); (3) connectivism -the learner receives knowledge in a learning community connecting to other learners (Goldie, 2016); (4) collaborative learning -a learning process is performed by more than one learner in virtual learning environment (Badawy, 2012); ( 5) peer-assisted learning -the learners learn from each other sharing their understanding about giving learning content (Edwards and Bone, 2012); ( 6) experimental learning -the learner learns through performance of well-organized learning activities (Langley, 2007); ( 7) flipped classroom -it is an element of blended learning where classroom and homework activities are reversed (Evseeva and Solozhenko, 2015).…”