PPEL – Sapocampus

Santos, C; fraser, J; Pedro, L (2009). SAPO Campus: a social media platform and PLE for Higher Education. Paper presented at EDEN 09, Porto. Available at http://labs.sapo.pt/ua/sapocampus/files/2009/10/eden2009_carlossantos_josiefraser_luispedro.pdf. Accessed on 25-10-2009.

http://labs.sapo.pt/ua/sapocampus/

The discovery of a project like Sapo Campus was a great surprise at the right time. Now that I am seeking for information about cooperative freedom in distance courses, exploring and trying to know more about this project enthuses me. Usually we hear about the discussion between choosing for LMSs or PLEs. Not so long ago I attended the Creative Learning marketplace, in Lisbon and listened to George Siemens, in his speech on Connectivism,  talking about exactly that: LMS vs. PLE/Networks.

As the article mentioned above states, more and more we use a huge amount of web 2.0 tools daily: blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networks and other kinds of applications that allow our cooperation and that we can learn with and from each others. The learning process nowadays has to be looked at with a different scope. Perhaps now that we see projects and ideas like sapocampus happening it does no longer make sense discussions like LMS vs. PLE. We can make use of both in a cooperative way.