TECHNOLOgy ENHANCED LEARNINg BETwEEN TECHNOLOgy AND HUMANISM

A b s t r a c t In this article we tried to show how technical perspectives on technology enhanced learning (tEl) integrate into learning theories. Our intention was to widen technical horizons by showing on theoretical implications that existing horizons have. we discussed two in our opinion most present understandings of technology in learning, the dictum of “invisible software ” and the exclusiveness of task-oriented approach of technology, and tried to make clear in which theoretical tradition they can be ordered. By that and by showing on theoretical approaches that represent other perspectives, especially the humanist one, we hope to have opened the technical perspective for new and different approaches to tEl. As a result we opened a discussion on two questions we believe are today crucia