Applying Luhmann’s system theory to an educational process including virtual mobile networks

• Main Authors: Ana Luisa Fontes Cabrera, Rafael Andrés Ayala Rodríguez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2011-09-01
• Series: Revista Complutense de Educación
• Subjects: Luhmann; sistemas sociales; tecnología; comunicación; aprendizaje móvil
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RCED/article/view/36569

<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: x-small;"><p>The introduction of technological devices in a social system whose main objective is the generation of knowledge afects such social system’s structure. This article shows how such structural change can be described using Luhmann’s system theory. It is possible to differentiate the factors which provide the social system with the required means not only to incorporate the necessary entropy in its communications, but to diminish the effect of such an entropic gain through restructure and redundancy measures. This description is grounded on a native toungue oral and written communication abilities course (Analysis and Verbal Expression Workshop). This course was taught in 2008 to 82 second-semester students in the Tecnológico de Monterrey Ciudad de México campus. Students in this course used the BlackBerry Pearl cellphone as a didactic resource in an mobile virtual environment.</p></span></span>