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The paper intends to propose a description of the ongoing work of accomplishment aimed at the (re)making-of educational standards in web-learning platforms. Widespread use of technologies of web based technologies in education and learning tends to put on the background the invisibile work of complex and heterogeneous chains of humans and non humans networks supporting web-learning learning initiatives. Moreover, a sort of 'double click' simplification remove the efforts, and also the negotiations behind-the-scenes (not to mention, the struggle between diverse alternative applications) occuring to support the identity of a web-learning project, by crediting an illusory simplistic account of the kind of work to project, implement, and carry out any initiatives of e-learning (or web-based learning whatever the definition one is interested in embracing). The paper draws on an ethnography of the web-learning platform 'Federica'(a web-learning platform of the University of Napoli) aimed at unveiling the situated work of pedagogising knowledge (Bernstein, 1996) in academic environments through web based technologies. The research confronts with the following questions: a) How scientific knowledge become transformed within pedagogical devices provided by web based technologies of teaching and learning ? b) How emerge and stabilise an educational standard in web-learning platform ? c) How that standard cope with the heterogeneity of academic pedagogical devices ? c) What are the intended, and the unexpected effects of the educational enacted standard ? The paper will try to provide some responses to those questions by inscribing the investigation within sociomaterial conceptualizations informed by STS tradition (Fenwick and Edwards, 2010; Sorensen, 2009).
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