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

  • Ana Luisa Fontes Cabrera Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de México
  • Rafael Andrés Ayala Rodríguez Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de México
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RCED.2011.v22.n1.6
Keywords: Luhmann, social systems, technology, communcation, mobile learning.

Abstract

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.

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Published
2011-08-31
How to Cite
Fontes Cabrera A. L. y Ayala Rodríguez R. A. (2011). Applying Luhmann’s system theory to an educational process including virtual mobile networks. Revista Complutense de Educación, 22(1), 129-144. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RCED.2011.v22.n1.6
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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2011)
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