Review of AB and LO

Review of António Pedro's AB: http://eeducandu.blogspot.com/2010/03/cooperative-freedom-annotated.html

The first bibliographic reference that António present it’s about Prof. Morten Paulsen’s Theory of Cooperative Freedom. António managed to transmit the key ideas of the theory in a summarized and clear way. The description made about Cooperative Freedom as a “mix balance from group cooperation and individual autonomy” it’s well achieved. Next, he adds that “can be achieved if we can balance time, space, pace, medium, access and content”.


On his second reference, António uses Terry Anderson’s chapter “Social Software to support distance education learners”, on “The Theory and Practice of Online Learning”. On it we can find a reference to the Theory of Cooperative Freedom, on which the author adds a dimension to Paulsen’s hexagon, Freedom of Relationship. Anderson states that the students should choose the partners that are more adequate to their capacities and social necessities.

António presents some essential ideas made by the author using citations and words of his own.

The third bibliographic reference concerns a workshop about cooperative and collaborative learning. He makes a small description of it, presenting some questions made during the workshop and about which it tries to answer.

António concludes with a small text, not about the bibliography itself, but presenting instead some of his own thoughts about cooperative and collaborative learning.

At the end of the essay there is an annotated and illustrated bibliography. On my perspective, it’s easy reading allows contextualize it, for what it could even come up on the beginning of the essay, as an introduction, and not at the end, after the conclusion.


Review of Emanuel's LO: http://emanuel-mpel4.blogspot.com/

I liked the beginning, on which we enter a movie theater and on the screen appears images of Second Life (with the presence of his own avatar). On this step he contextualizes his work on PPEL. Afterwards we can watch a powerpoint presentation on which Emanuel makes a brief description of Learning Types of Educational Systems (Individual, Collaborative and Cooperative). Next on the presentation comes “The Items of Cooperative Freedom Process”, “The advantages of cooperative freedom”, “The value of theory and digital component” and some conclusions.


I think that Emanuel made a good synthesis of the theory, transmitting the most important messages on each topic of it. For last, I only have to point out that the video introduction plays the images too quickly. I believe it could be a little bit slower so that we could better analyze the screenplay, which, like the soundtrack, improve this work undoubtedly.