France Henri

Télé-université | TÉLUQ · Centre de recherche LICEF

Le present article tente de repondre a la necessite d’apprehender les usages des videos pour l’apprentissage dans le contexte d’emergence de xMOOC dans toute leur complexite. Considerant la dispersion des recherches menees sur cette thematique, un cadre d’analyse est construit afin de decrire les dimensions qui peuvent intervenir dans l’emergence d...

This paper presents the doctoral study of a knowledge transfer in the area of chemical analytical sciences. It aims to examine the concept of situated learning and networked learning through the implementation of virtual community. The aim of the study is to find the learning environment which would best sustain capture, production and sharing of k...

Learning in distributed learning (DL) environment sometimes involves knowledge management (KM) in particular at doctoral level where students can create and share collective knowledge while developing research skills. A key concept in KM is the so-called knowledge pyramid (KP), which describes the hierarchy of data, information, knowledge, and wisd...

The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate on PLEs in order to enrich the conceptual framework elaborated by educators and used by PLE developers. By doing so, we put the emphasis on how PLEs can contribute to enhance the users' ability to learn and suggest research orientations to study the learning processes supported by PLEs. Firstly...

This paper focuses on Did@cTIC, a CoP of university teachers, and addresses the issue of capitalizing their teaching experience as well as that of reifying their practices in the form of structured documents. This paper first presents the theoretical framework describing the reification process along with the instrumental approach for tool developm...

Cet article décrit et évalue un scénario de réification et de réutilisation de pratiques professionnelles ainsi que les services interopérables supportant le scénario développés en appliquant une méthode de design participatif. Après avoir présenté le contexte de la recherche et décrit la méthode de design participatif appliquée et ses principaux i...

RÉSUMÉ : D'ordre méthodologique et théorique, cet article problématise la recherche sur les forums de discussion en contexte éducatif sous trois aspects caractéristiques: la diversité des approches disciplinaires, la complexité de l'objet étudié et l'adéquation incertaine des critères utilisés pour juger de la scientificité des recherches. Sur la b...

The quality of education for doctoral students is closely linked to the quality of the research they undertake. Benefiting from technological advances, new distributed and collaborative research practices can be witnessed. The concept of e-science has emerged and evolved to the concept of e-research. These concepts bring about a new research philos...

MENTOR is a multidisciplinary research training program for graduate students in research field of mobility and posture disorders. Its members are distributed in a number of institutions across Montreal, creating challenges for the processes of collaborative research, joint supervision and scientific immersion. The purpose of our research project i...

The paper aims at showing how Participatory Design contributes to the understanding of learning processes related to Communities of Practice (CoPs) and, at the same time, to the design and implementation of Web Services to support organisational and individual learning in CoPs. This research builds on the European PALETTE project.

Le système TELOS intègre un ensemble d’architectures, de méthodes et d’outils appelés à transformer en profondeur le fonctionnement institutionnel et les pratiques professionnelles en matière de conception, de production et de diffusion de cours et d’apprentissage en ligne. TELOS suppose non seulement l’appropriation de nouveaux outils technologiqu...

[Français] Dans cette contribution, nous revenons sur la définition originelle du concept de scénarisation pour mieux comprendre l’évolution qu’il a subie. Ce faisant, nous soulevons certains éléments de problématique de la scénarisation selon trois perspectives : les potentialités de la scénarisation médiatique, l’intégration de la scénarisation d...

From a methodological and theoretical perspective, this article analyses the problematic of research on computer conferencing in an educational context from three characteristics aspects: the diversity of disciplinary approaches, the complexity of the object under study, and the uncertain appropriateness of the criteria used to judge the scientific...

This project was undertaken to develop a telelearning knowledge base aimed at making specialized telelearning knowledge accessible to non-specialized practitioners in the field. The challenge stems from a rationale related to a user-centered approach for the software design process, which is focused on learning in the context of professional practi...

More and more CoPs have chosen virtual environments and services to support their activities. However, recent research has underlined several problems: the lack of adequate scaffolding in terms of technical support and appropriate use of technology for communication and collaboration, the lack of tools and virtual environments to support real-life...

Doctoral training has not been studied in depth as a learning situation, and no learning environment has been designed to specifically support actors involved in the training of future researchers. The research literature on doctoral education indicates that the knowledge about doctoral training needs to be made explicit and formalized. We claim th...

This deliverable presents the participatory design methodology of the PALETTE project and some first results of the implementation of this process. Some principles of the Actor Network Theory and of the Agile Methodology are embedded in the different stages of this methodology whose twelve stages (described in details in the last section) will be t...

The publisher of IRRODL, The Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research (CIDER), is pleased to link here to a series of eight online seminars that took place over Spring 2005, using Elluminate live e-learning and collaborative solutions. These interactive CIDER Sessions disseminate research emanating from Canada's vibrant DE research communi...

Dans cet article, nous montrons comment une démarche d'évaluation participative et continue mise en oeuvre dans le cadre d'un dispositif de formation hybride peut sup-porter la dynamique de l'émergence d'une communauté de pratique. Nous définissons et décrivons cette démarche que nous appelons évaluation pour la connaissance et ten-tons d'établir c...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to provide a preliminary framework to observe, analyse and evaluate both activity and learning in virtual communities. So various types of virtual communities will be studied by examining their relationship to socialisation and learning. After a presentation of the main ideas of Wenger's social learning theory,...

This article sets the foundation for the development of a knowledge base and a resource (learning object) repository in the domain of telelearning, enabling researchers to reference resources in this domain using standard specifications based on domain ontology and to integrate them according to a set of research or teaching activities. The resourc...

This chapter presents a new approach to evaluation called evaluation for knowledge. We suggest that this approach conceals the capacity to support the emergence of authentic learners’ communities and thus contribute to quality of learning and provide criteria for its evaluation. To confront this idea, we will present the bases and the characteristi...

This article sets the foundation for the development of a knowledge base and a resource (learning object) repository in the domain of telelearning, enabling researchers to reference resources in this domain using standard specifications based on domain ontology and to integrate them according to a set of research or teaching activities. The resourc...

Cet article pose les prémisses du développement d'une base de connaissances et d'une banque de ressources (ou objets pédagogiques) en téléapprentissage permettant aux chercheurs de référencer les ressources de ce domaine à l'aide de spécifications standards fondées sur une ontologie du domaine et de les intégrer en regard de la description d'un ens...

This article is an attempt to promote R&D methodology that is action- oriented in order to improve the development of tele-learning environments and software artefacts fully adapted to learning activities. First we start by presenting an overview of the two main phases of action-oriented research, stressing the importance of control methods. Second...

Realising that a program is much more than a series of courses, we set out to create a space, over and above the courses, where students can interact with the program’s human and material resources. We call this space the program environment. Conceptually, a program environment is closer to the notion of gateway or Learning Service Provider than to...

Computer conferencing used in pedagogical contexts is proving to be a gold mine of information concerning learning. Educators, trainers and learners should be able to use this information to enhance the learning process. A research project is presently under way to develop intelligent tools to analyze the content of messages. For educators and trai...

Research shows that the use of computer mediated communication (CMC) may contribute to alleviating important problems in distance education: isolation, lack of interaction and social exchange. By replacing the ‘transmission’ approach to teaching, typical of distance education, CMC should enable the application of teaching models based on participat...

The chapter presents a framework and analytical model that could be used by educators for a better understanding of the learning process and of the riches available in the content of CMC messages. The analytical model was developed to highlight five dimensions of the learning process exteriorized in messages: participation, interaction, social, cog...

Examines the problems and promise of incorporating computer-assisted communications (CAC) into distance education programs. Discusses advantages gained by widely-scattered students using CAC for individual or group conferences. States that CAC can encourage training approaches in which the learning process is sustained by the dynamic of the social...

Télé‐Université is a distance‐teaching institution which is part of the network of the Université du Québec. Its approach is an original and innovative one by the nature of its programme content, educational philosophy, and student services. Using a variety of media, Télé‐Université aims to reach those population sectors of Quebec which do not have...

The objective of this paper is to report on the preliminary results concerning the building of the participatory design methodology which is being developed using a participatory approach and supported by the implementation of participatory management in the context of the European project PALETTE. PALETTE integrates computer scientists, educationa...

This exploratory paper discusses the learning potential of PLE, not simply as a technological artefact but as an instrument of the learning process. It tries to identify the role of PLE in learning process and to point out the conditions to become more efficient learning instrument. Firstly, PLE should foster self-direction and reflexivity, and lea...

This paper reports on the results of the first stage of an exploratory research on the learning potential of Personal Learning Environment, not simply as a technological artifact but as an instrument to support the learning process. Firstly, we present PLE as an enriched concept. Secondly we identify the roles a PLE can play to improve the quality...

In the scientific literature, the Personal Environment has been described as a "new" resource to the learning process and named Personal Learning Environment. However, it has not yet been demonstrated in what way and to what extent Personal Environments contribute significantly and efficiently to the learning processes and outcomes framed by Higher...

La partie audiovisuelle de cette thèse est disponible pour consultation à la bibliothèque, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec. Thèse (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1974. Bibliographie: feuillets 76-78. Microfiche du manuscrit dactylographié.

Cette étude empirique en est à ses prémisses. Elle se situe dans une démarche exploratoire et programmatique. Elle s'intéresse exclusivement aux recherches dans le domaine des forums ou des listes de discussion en milieu éducatif où les participants sont des apprenants ou des enseignants. Elle vise dans un premier temps à vérifier quels sont les ap...