Using emoticons as a feedback support in e-learning context : a moodle block implementation

الملخص EN

Emotions influence significantly activities with high use of cognitive and perception process ; learning activity is one of these activities.

Detection and recognizing learner's emotional state is a very recent and active research field.

In this paper, we propose a Simplified vision to the emotional state detection; we try’ to avoid existent complex approaches by counting on the today user habits like as participation and feeling sharing habits strongly present in social network and web 2.0 concept in general.

The result is an explicit system to allow learner to express his emotional state during a learner session.