THE S2P LEARNING MODEL: FOR THE COMBINATION OF THE FORMAL AND THE PERSONAL DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING

摘要

The S2P Learning Model was originally designed to try to understand the Game-based Learning. It was subsequently developed in order to translate a conceptual framework for understanding any initiative of formal learning. Therefore, this model is essentially based on three complementary layers namely: the Formal Learning Strategy, the Learning Platform, and the Learning Process. Currently big changes occur constantly in our society at all levels. A society in which the individual is becoming more and more independent through ease of access to knowledge, due to the wide facilities offered by information technologies. Thus, knowing that the S2P Learning Model has focused previously on the formal dimension of learning, and knowing also that the process of appropriation of knowledge includes a dominant individual dimension, it would be crucial to integrate it (the personal dimension of learning) in this model of understanding, in order to consider both formal and personal dimensions in any educational initiative. Especially since the individual dimension is strongly present in academia, where students are becoming more independent, autonomous and demanding, this paper focuses mainly on the incorporation of the individual dimension into the S2P Learning Model, aiming to exploit optimally the two dimensions, formal and personal, in a way to catalyse and foster optimally the learning process.