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As a part of a project exploring ways to define transition to Territorial AgroEcological System (tTAES), researchers and rural stakeholders (policymakers and farmers) organized territorial participatory design (TPD) workshops. Such TPD workshops are especially challenging since actors projecting their activity into the future confront many viewpoints or controversial dimensions (farming systems, natural...
This paper describes the work involved in developing a script-based PBL environment in Moodle. PLATE-PBL is a Moodle plug-in based entirely on the meta-model of the PBL scripting language. The plug-in dynamically transforms lesson plans developed by a special visual script editor, it then interprets and instantiates equivalent lesson plans in the Moodle's runtime. Lesson plans can also be designed...
In our recent work we have proven quantitatively that collaborative learning improves students' knowledge retention and boosts the quality of attained learning outcomes. In this research we investigate the role that the students' gender plays in their engagement during collaborative learning and their learning performance as assessed by the teacher. In the context of the EBTIC developed Collaborative...
The globalization of education and particularly engineering education often results in pedagogical instruction being given by instructors not speaking the native language of the audience. Today English is the language frequently selected to bridge this communication gap through traditional oral translation either simultaneous or interactive. This single avenue of communication is simply not adequate...
Teamwork assessment by peers in small groups could be affected by personal relationships. This paper presented a system of teamwork assessments for a postgraduate course in a Thai university that integrated the collaborative learning and hand-on group projects as the means to deliver the desired outcome. Students found assessments quite suitable in assessing the teamwork and sufficiently detailed...
In this paper, we focus on the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have on the educational administrators staff of the French National Education System. We are interested on the digital culture of educational administrators in terms of their profiles, the tools they use and how they use them. We ask them what they do with ICT and how they are important in their professional...
We describe a number of high-level design decisions that we found essential for a Computer-assisted Assessment System that is to be deployed in school classrooms for supporting formative assessment by teachers and self-assessment by students. In addition, the system needs to provide information to parents. Our design decisions comprise the use of the Open Learner Model approach to make diagnostic...
This work presents a CSCL case study, for evaluating the Collage editor (an IMS-LD compliant authoring tool for collaboration scripts). 21 postgraduate students were guided to work in dyads and design their own CLFP-based collaboration scripts using Collage editor. The study objective was to provide additional evaluation data regarding the usability and efficiency of Collage editor as a tool for supporting...
Social media are more than just a buzzword or an interesting phenomenon to our teenagers, they are a way of life. Research shows that active participation on sites like Facebook, communicating via texting and chat programs, and creating blogs are everyday occurrences for a generation of students. Yet these same students do not consider the impact of these tools on their lives for good or ill. Furthermore,...
Scripts are the computational solution proposed in the computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) field to guide and support potentially fruitful interactions in terms of learning benefits. However, when applying these scripts to real contexts, unexpected situations occur that forces to change the script on the fly. In a blended learning situation, in which online activities and face-to-face...
The management of groups is an essential task in collaborative learning scenarios. In a blended learning situation, in which online activities and face-to-face activities are combined, this group management becomes more complex. Different technological solutions have been proposed for supporting the group management in the CSCL field. However, these approaches fail to consider factors inherent to...
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