Anne-Dominique Salamin

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland · Dic Ens

In a research project dedicated to learning instruments for new learners, we asked students to express their revising process for examination. Thus 105 academic students, enrolled in a bachelor's degree in economics or a master's degree in computing science, distributed in groups of 3-4 people, worked together on designing a common way for revision...

Microlearning offers an interesting training solution both for professionals and for university students. Short, brief, agile—the contents proposed in micro-learning formats correspond to current learning modes. However, they serve certain types of knowledge better, and learning methods, such as distance learning, are more favorable to this approac...

The University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) is the second higher education institution in Switzerland, with 21,500 students and 6,000 professors. Teaching is provided in small groups, face-to-face, but the use of blended learning has been developed since 2004. In March 2020, when the entire Swiss education system shifted to dist...

This paper reports on the findings of a study about perception in virtual contexts, conducted with 111 persons from 4 countries. Perception constitutes one of the key cognitive learning process. In this study, we aimed at assessing whether items displayed in a VR360 video context were more rapidly perceived compared to a VR 3D environment. Results...

This paper exposes a use case concerning a policy for developing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This document presents the strategy adopted by the University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland 1 , a 20 year old tertiary university based in Switzerland. After a description of the strategy, the paper details the means implemented, namely...

This article presents the results obtained by a qualitative study aiming at assessing the impact of innovative technologies on rote learning. The study involved students attending courses at Bachelor level. We compared the memorization of data provided on hard paper copies with data displayed on the smartwatch. We developed an application on the Ap...

By 2050, the 60+ population will have reached 2 billion—this will be the first time in history when people aged over 60 will outnumber children aged 14 and under. The Mocodis project focused on collecting and valorizing seniors’ competencies in the firm, which can, as such, be regarded as a group producing value and no longer perceived as a vulnera...

This paper aims at reporting on the findings of two quantitative studies and one qualitative study conducted among HES-SO undergraduate and graduate students. We have outlined the characteristics of the “digital natives” generation of students attending our courses and have submitted a sample of these students to an experiment using the Google Glas...

A great number of professors create learning resources such as textbooks to teach their students. Today, these resources are mainly available in paper format or printed by students by accessing a distribution platform. Therefore these seem unsuited to " digital native " students, who represent a large group in universities. Such groups seek new ins...

The objective conditions are gathered in order to develop alternative training resources. Serious games represents a good example of a tool welcomed and appreciated by students stemming from the Digital Natives, while at the same time assuring progression in knowledge acquisition. The Gademavo game, developed by the e-learning Center HES-SO Cyberle...

This paper presents how the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) builds its blended learning strategy. Divided into two phases, the first as top down, from board of education to professors, and the second as a bottom-up approach, from students to board of education, the HES-SO e-learning strategy intends to include digital na...

More than 12000 students enrol every year in the different curricula proposed by the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland . This university offers students strong links with the real professional environment, either via very concrete courses (laboratory work, experiments, etc.) or by helping with developing projects ordered by profess...

New trends in information technology are strongly influencing and shaping the growth of e-learning, and progressively resolving a number of critical issues currently limiting its dissemination to wider populations. The main goal of this chapter is to outline the MySelf Project, which aims to expand the potential of e-learning through the implementa...

Presentation of the e-Quality project The e-Quality project, partly funded by the European Commission under the Socrates/Minerva Programme 1 , while deeply rooted into the on going normalisation work, proposes to offer a ground for practical design and implementation of a quality methodology, a training package for staff in charge of its implementa...

Quality: a need for improving ODL development in higher education Quality assessment is becoming a strategic issue for ODL (Open and Distance Learning) service providers and users. As the market for ODL services is opening up in Europe the number of ODL services in the field of higher education is growing, but end users actually have no ways of ass...

Even in distance learning institutions, the students choose in 80% of the cases paper as data medium. Researches have shown that they are primarily motivated by the mobility of the medium itself and the mobility granted to its user. It seemed interesting to examine to what extent currently available mobile devices can offer the students greater mob...