E-learning from expertize: a computational approach to a non-textual culture of learning [expertize read expertise]

The importance of "culture of learning" has been pointed out by many authors and is an emerging feature of e-learning. Our basic assumption, as J. Bruner (1966) has pointed out, is that learning is fully embedded in the cultural roots of the community in which people live. The authors propose a computational model of learning from expertise based on the theory of approximated reasoning developed by G. Gerla (2000) and on the studies on language made by Vygotskij and its school (L.S. Vygotskij, 1966; T. Kuhn, 1988). In our interpretation, expertise is an ability acquired mostly by experience. Our research is also supported by a software prototype that we are developing at the University of Salerno, that we use for methodological purposes.