Question:

There are various types of learning, notably individual learning, collaborative

learning and the cooperative, I want to know how that it is possible to apply in the
courses elearning the Theory of Cooperative Freedom Morten Paulsen?

Answer:

I will start with a definition of learning, because I believe that, sometimes, there is
some conceptual confusion. The majority of authors refer to the collaborative
learning and cooperative i not properly to the psychological process but to the
activities organization the activities of teaching or curricula, which are designed to
have effect on the learning.
This can be defined as the “acquisition or modification of behavior and knowledge,
the as result of personal experience and the species, which persist in time and may
not be attributed to a simple maturation of the body” . Consequently the learning
process is always a personal or individual and is registered in the memory. In this
sense memory and learning are the two sides of the same currency. What happens
is that, as already stated Vygotsky, a inter-personal or social process transformed
into a intra-personnel process. The social interaction may facilitate the process of
individual learning. But there is only learning when there is the construction of a
new mental scheme or the modification of a prior one. Piaget stated that the
completion of the intellectual structures, characteristics of formal thoughts, needs
of the cognitive conflict and socio-cognitive, i.e., trade and social interactions. What
happens is that some students, or better, some people prefer to learn alone. In fact
they do not learn alone, learn through reading, on the implementation of
activities... learn through several cultural articles where the reading is fundamental,
but without being in working group or in collaboration with others. I do not know
the Theory of Cooperative Freedom of Morten Paulsen and, therefore, I cannot
answer properly. I will study better and then I will be able to respond in a more
consistent way. I can understand that this author defends the idea that some if not
many people like learn alone and the teacher and planning of curricular activities
must not forcing these people to work cooperatively. Nowadays we know that
approximately 20% of university students prefer to work alone, indeed one author
wrote an article in the defense of the lonely apprenticeii, as a voice against this
dogmatism of collaborative learning and cooperative, especially in courses of
elearning system. I agree with him. The majority of people who has produced
something different and innovative made it solitary, knowing and being very well
informed about the issues in this area and the know most eminent scientists or
literati season we doing finnaly the also have a general culture and knowledge of
what has been done more important in the past.

Lisbon, March 30, 2010

Guilhermina Lobato Miranda

Lisbon, April 4, 2010

Translation by Nuno Miguel Oliveira

i
Learning Cooperative is not the same as the collaborative learning
ii
In defense of the solitary learner: the response to collaborative, constructivist education. Educational
Technology, March-April, 24-29.