Collaborative Approach of an Online Technical Course Design: Case Analysis by Activity Theory

Challenge of digital pedagogy leads Moroccan universities to move towards a transition from a knowledge diffusion logic, in which they were rooted, to that of the knowledge navigation. The number of students immersed in the universal culture of the Internet is growing. They aspire to find in their training the convenience, the speed and the ease of access to information found on the Web. It also notes that multiple interactions made possible by the Internet, appear to shatter the hierarchies that previously were structuring academic life. This is why it is possible to assert that the technologies concerned will profoundly change the traditional forms of the training process. In this paper, we specify the difference between two concepts that need to be known before starting to use computer tools which are collaboration and cooperation. Once this clarification made , we move to the classification of collaborative activity supporting tools based on the time and space parameters. Then, we detail the scenario of our course "Technologie des Colonnes".Finally, we will analyze the results, of a collaborative learning approach, based on the theory of activity.