Joint degrees in e-learning environments

Information and communication technologies offer a great opportunity for the development of joint degrees between organizations. In these spaces of cooperative knowledge, each organization contributes with their partners providing learning resources that they offer to students and teachers. Each organization manages their resources and students. However, there is a problem. The Learning Management Systems (LMS) that gives support to the development of the joint degrees have not been conceived to allow multiple spaces of cooperation, which is generating technological isolation. One of the reasons is the lack of knowledge of the joint degrees framework in e-learning environments. The purpose of this document is, first to contribute to the solution of the problem, describing a conceptual model that allows understanding of these cooperative spaces. Second, being useful during the design and development of cooperative e-learning activities and finally to serve as a reference for the design of the new LMS and the adaptation of the present ones.