Description:
The aim of this article is to describe learning situation statements as they are produced by teachers implied in distance learning. A statement presents problems and specifies the goal to be reached by learners. It can be considered as a learning object embedded in a social and a technical environment and connected to other resources. As such, a learning situation statement is a resource which can be re-used in different learning contexts and in other devices (EIAH) provided it is described in a metadata diagram. After having defined the concept of learning situation and made a typology, we will characterize its statement by putting it to the test of existing diagrams. In spite of its limits, we will adopt in this article the structure of metadata of the LOM v1.0 and propose a new category. Among the set of concepts that may fit explicitly or implicitly in the learning situation statement, we will particularly considers those dealing with collaborative learning and we will discuss issues such as : constitution of learning teams, nature and distribution of the tasks, roles within the teams and evaluation.