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The aim of this paper is to provide an argument material in order to open up a discussion concerning educational and political strategies within the field of distance education. I would like to argue for the flexible learning within the social constructivistic perspective. Within this context the crucial question is: How should we generate various educational alternatives within the distance educational system? It has been argued that there is a need for alternatives within the system, i.e., a [social] constructivistic approach where we include cultural and other demographical aspects. In this regard we have to deal with the participant's standpoint and in the same time we need to be familiar with the public debate regarding the usage of modem technology. It is therefore crucial to reach all groups in the community and thus a flexibility in the system is required. In the field of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) the best typifications are where the exploration of the new possibilities is represented by the emerging technologies. In such work, there is a desire to build learning environments to support a range of distributed cognitive work, i.e., communities of learners, conceptual learning conversations, and knowledge building communities. Instructional designers are in the initial stages of exploring the commonalities and discontinuities between the varieties of CSCL activities.

Abstract – This paper is a description of the design and implementation of a course within the project USo+I: Universidad, Sociedad e Innovación financed by the European Union, within the ALFA III program. The course was an introduction to the handling of Learning Management Systems (LMS) first conducted at Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Havana, Cuba. The course was divided as two weeks of on-campus lectures and workshops followed by distance learning for three months, altogether corresponding to ten weeks of full time studies. Pedagogically and methodically the course was planned within the concept of Problem Based Learning (PBL). All course material was open educational resources freely available on the internet. The design of the course also had to consider the problems of limited access to computers and internet, both during the course and in the lecturers´ future practice. The solution was to have the LMS "Moodle" and other software executable from USB-memories and all course material available from the same USB-memory sticks. How this design can meet the given considerations is discussed. ; Sponsorship : This work has been produced with financial assistance from the European Community, contract DCIALA/ 19.09.01/08/19189/160-922/ALFA III-9

In this paper the authors present a solution to the problem of giving practical training in handlinginformation and communication technology (ICT) without depending on internet access. The proposedmethod is to use an USB-memory to emulate selected educational resources that are otherwiseavailable on the internet or on a local network. How this method can influence pedagogical issues isdiscussed and, it is asserted that the method offers interesting learning advantages beyond theobvious independence of internet connections. The paper describes the planning and implementationof a course about the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) in higher education and, inparticular, how it was designed to meet the needs of educators in a developing country with slow orunreliable internet connections. The course was a part of the project USo+I: Universidad, Sociedad eInnovación. Mejora de la pertinencia de la educación en las ingenierías de Latinoamérica (Universityand Society: Improving of the relevance of the education in the engineering of Latinoamerica) thisproject financed by the European Union, within the ALFA III program. The University of Borås wasassigned to design and teach a course about LMS to engineering educators in Latin-America. ; Sponsorship : This work has been produced with financial assistance from the European Community, contract DCIALA/ 19.09.01/08/19189/160-922/ALFA III-9.

In this paper the authors present a solution to the problem of giving practical training in handling information and communication technology (ICT) without depending on internet access. The proposed method is to use an USB-memory to emulate selected educational resources that are otherwise available on the internet or on a local network. How this method can influence pedagogical issues is discussed and, it is asserted that the method offers interesting learning advantages beyond the obvious independence of internet connections. The paper describes the planning and implementation of a course about the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) in higher education and, in particular, how it was designed to meet the needs of educators in a developing country with slow or unreliable internet connections. The course was a part of the project USo+I: Universidad, Sociedad e Innovación. Mejora de la pertinencia de la educación en las ingenierías de Latinoamérica (University and Society: Improving of the relevance of the education in the engineering of Latinoamerica) this project financed by the European Union, within the ALFA III program. The University of Borås was assigned to design and teach a course about LMS to engineering educators in Latin-America. ; USo+I: Universidad, Sociedad e Innovación. Mejora de la pertinencia de la educación en las ingenierías de Latinoamérica (University and Society: Improving of the relevance of the education in the engineering of Latinoamerica) this project financed by the European Union, within the ALFA III program. The University of Borås was assigned to design and teach a course about LMS to engineering educators in Latin-America.