Supporting professional learning: beyond technological support

Abstract

Abstract Three main evolutions define the concept of professional learning support. The firstone could be as a result of the dynamic interaction between a new demand for professional learning coming both from the individual and the organisations and a new supply defined mainly by the new possibilities offered by the technologies. The second one could be presented as the adoption of a new paradigm of learning, which integrates the learner as the main actor and the process of knowledge building either by interactions with the environment or by human‐human interactions. The last one concerns the concept of professional itself. In this paper Jitol is analysed according to these three evolutions either bydefining the assumptions of this ‘professional learning support’ and by highlighting main results of the JITOL pilot studies. The main issue of this reflection, will lead to anunderstanding that Jitol becomes effective and meaningful through its diverse uses in real settings and that theses uses need to be driven by a collaborative research action.