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 Does Technology Transform Teaching? The Paradoxical Appropriation of an e-Learning PlatformAbstractE-learning tools have proliferated and are being used today in a
way which their backers could hardly have imagined. Moodle,
the free software e-learning platform, has been available at the
College of Technology in Toulouse since 2005. Our work aims
at questioning the appropriation of this tool by its users, that is
the teachers and the students. Two years after its
implementation, our study shows that, although students
appreciate the platform and despite its undeniable technical
features, many teachers still make no use of it. How can this
phenomenon be explained? Our hypothesis : the modes of
appropriation and the uses of technical objects depend, amongst
other things, on the representation, interaction and power-play
between the people involved.KeywordsICT, Moodle, appropriation, e-learningTo see the electronic version of the paper, pleaseClick Here
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