“Cognitive ergonomics and e-learning” Abdelouahab SOUFI (Professor Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University Abou Bakr Belkaid, Tlemcen)

Abstract

Illiteracy is one of the major scourges of our century. According to UNESCO, in 1980, the world had about 870 million illiterates. Today, that figure is around 862 million.

African countries are the first to suffer. They reach nearly 50% in the regions of sub-Saharan Africa. This same institution declared in 1958 that "Anyone unable to read and write, with understanding, a brief and simple statement of facts relating to daily life" is considered illiterate.

However, the very concept of illiteracy has changed a lot because today a person who does not know how to use a computer can be considered illiterate in so-called information societies.

This trend has been reinforced by the development of new information and communication technologies where machines are gradually aiming to imitate the skills of the human expert in their educational approach.

The arrival of these computer systems equipped with multimedia tools and software allowing interactivity gives the possibility of implementing new strategies for transmitting knowledge and in particular learning to read. By imitating the performance of the teacher, computer applications aim to solve aspects related to the problem of learning to read.