Open AccessDistance learning as a central issue for the learning and professionalization process of professeurs documentalistes: The French synthesis of transliteracy
Author(s) -
Anne Cordier,
Anne Lehmans
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
school libraries worldwide
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2816-3788
pISSN - 1023-9391
DOI - 10.29173/slw6842
Subject(s) - curriculum , distance education , professionalization , process (computing) , mathematics education , sociology , perspective (graphical) , pedagogy , dimension (graph theory) , learning sciences , computer science , knowledge management , educational technology , engineering ethics , psychology , social science , engineering , artificial intelligence , mathematics , pure mathematics , operating system
The initial and continuing academic programs for teacher librarians in France have to face major changes in their content and organization. A new social request for distance learning courses crosses a changing conceptual, epistemic and technological content that demands the implementation of adapted academic policies. The creation of distance learning curricula in universities is based on three factors:-A new perspective on information culture which includes cross-cultural and critical knowledge about information, media and computer science. This “transliteracy” dimension is congruent to the logic of distance learning.-The emphasis in use and reflection on information and communication tools that are common to existing curricula and distance learning courses.-The necessity of alternative training strategies for the universities which includes experimentation of information technologies as learning tools, objects and subjects.