Julien Broisin

Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research · Teaching And Learning Enhanced by Technologies (TALENT)

The quality of the data and the amount of correct information available is key to informed decision-making. Higher education institutions (HEIs) often employ various decision support systems (DSSs) to make better choices. However, there is a lack of systems to assist with decision-making to promote innovation in teaching and learning. In this study...

Researchers in learning analytics have created indicators with learners’ trace data as a proxy for studying learner behaviour in a college course. Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) is one of the theories used to explain these behaviours, distinguishing between deep, surface, and organized study. In Latin America, researchers have demonstrated th...

The study of explainable artificial intelligence in education is a major preoccupation of the research community. In this paper, we introduce explanations in a competency-based system, in the context of computer education. Our overall aim is to increase learners' understanding of the levels of mastery of their competencies that are computed automat...

Blended Learning (BL) has become increasingly popular in Higher Education Institutions. Despite its popularity and the advances in methodologies for the detection of learning tactics and strategies from trace data, little is known about how they apply to BL settings and, therefore, how students use them to plan, organize, monitor, and regulate thei...

Formative assessment provides teachers with feedback to help them adapt their behavior. To manage the increasing number of students in higher education, technology-enhanced formative assessment tools can be used to maintain and hopefully improve teaching and learning quality thanks to the high amount of data that are generated by their usage. Based...

Many studies have explored using different indicators to support students’ self-monitoring. This has motivated the development of student-facing analytics, such as dashboards and chatbots. However, there is a limited understanding of how learners interpret these indicators and act on that information. This study evaluates different indicators from...

The design of interactive systems leveraging testing and spacing effects has been poorly studied in ecological contexts. This paper presents an exploratory qualitative study conducted with French middle school and high-school teachers and students to identify hypotheses to guide the design of this kind of system. The resulting hypotheses are: (1) s...

Dans cet article, nous présentons l’évaluation et l’analyse de l’utilisation du service COMPER, qui associe un profil de compétences (COM) à des ressources personnalisées (PER), réalisées auprès de 181 étudiants de 1ère année de Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie (DUT1) Informatique entre 2020 et 2021. Les résultats montrent qu’en dépit d’une uti...

Combining a competence-based approach and self-regulation, the COMPER project offers an environment to be used in addition to the courses in remote and blended modalities in higher education. It consists of a graphical presentation of the learners’ competency profile (following the open learner model’s approach) and a personalized resources recomme...

The transition from the 20th- to 21st-century education is a vital and complex process for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It requires constant updating of their strategic plan, ensuring all internal competencies necessary for improving and adapting their teaching and learning processes are in place. This paper presents the design and evaluat...

In the past years, Blended Learning (BL) has gained traction as a methodology in Higher Education Institutions. Despite the positive effects of BL, several studies have shown that students require high levels of self-regulation to succeed in these types of practices. Still, there is little understanding of how students organize their learning in BL...

This paper investigates how to provide novice programmers with feedback about their learning process including hints and explanations to improve their learning. The aim is to improve the feedback effectiveness and perceived utility by making it more meaningful through the use of explanations. Our proposals were implemented in the context of compute...

The purpose of recommending activities to learners is to provide them with resources adapted to their needs, to facilitate the learning process. However, when teachers face a large number of students, it is difficult for them to recommend a personalized list of resources to each learner. In this paper, we are interested in the design of a system th...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the globe moved towards “emergency online education”, experiencing a metamorphosis that advanced their capacities and competencies as never before. Teaching and Learning Centers (TLCs), the internal units that promote sustainable transformations, can play a key role in m...

Implementing remote and blended higher education courses motivated the design of new support services for autonomous learning. Thus, combining a competence-based approach and self-regulation, the COMPER project offers a service to be used in addition to the courses. It consists of a graphical presentation of the learners’ competency profile (follow...

Formative assessment aims to improve teaching and learning by providing teachers and students with feedback designed to help them to adapt their behavior. To face the increasing number of students in higher education and support this kind of activity, technology-enhanced formative assessment tools emerged. These tools generate data that can serve a...

Combinant approche par compétences et auto-régulation, le service COMPER associe la présentation graphique d'un profil de compétences à un système de recommandations personnalisées d'exercices d'entraînement à utiliser en complément des cours. Destiné aux étudiants, le service a été expérimenté auprès de 181 étudiants de DUT1 (Informatique), en com...

Learning disabilities can be defined as neurologically based processing problems that interfere with basic learning skills such as understanding, reading or counting, but also with higher-level skills such as space and time coordination. Adaptive learning systems are usually not designed to take into account learning disabilities, even if the need...

Most of literature on massive open online courses (MOOCs) have focused on describing and predicting learner’s behavior with course trace data. However, little is known on the external resources beyond the MOOC they use to shape their learning experience, and how these interactions relate with their success in the course. This paper presents the res...

Programming became one of the most demanded professional skills. This reality is driving practitioners to search out better approaches for figuring out how to code and how to support learning programming processes. Prior works have focused on discovering, identifying, and characterizing learning programming patterns that better relate to success. R...

Most of literature on massive open online courses (MOOCs) have focused on describing and predicting learner’s behavior with course trace data. However, little is known on the external resources beyond the MOOC they use to shape their learning experience, and how these interactions relate with their success in the course. This paper presents the res...

A large diverse amount of educational content can dynamically contribute to the construction of basic knowledge for elementary school children. These contents can be used to develop or expand such knowledge and this becomes different when it needs to be applied to children with learning problems in basic mathematics. Then, it is necessary to manage...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2019, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in September 2019. The 41 research papers and 50 demo and poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The contributions reflect the debate around t...

The differences in term of access and ICT skills between different groups in society have created a problem of digital divide. To overcome this problem, models and strategies are required to achieve a greater impact on the population, and that population can develop skills that enhance inclusion in the society of knowledge. This chapter proposes th...

In this paper we design a set of awareness and reflection tools aiming at engaging learners in the deep learning process during a practical activity carried out through a virtual and remote laboratory. These tools include: (i) a social awareness tool revealing to learners their current and general levels of performance, but also enabling the compar...

Cette étude s’appuie sur les méthodes d’analyse des usages pour identifier de nouveaux facteurs de succès de l’apprentissage. Son originalité réside dans l’exploration des liens existants entre le comportement des apprenants pendant des activités de travaux pratiques et leur performance académique. A partir de traces issues d’expérimentations menée...

This study analyzes students’ behaviors in a remote laboratory environment in order to identify new factors of prediction of academic success. It investigates relations between learners’ activities during practical sessions, and their performance at the final assessment test. Based on learning analytics applied to data collected from an experimenta...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2017, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2017. The 24 full papers, 23 short papers, 6 demo papers, and 22 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The theme for the 12th EC-TEL...

This study analyzes students’ behavior in our remote laboratory environment and aims at identifying behavioural patterns during a practical session that lead to better learning outcomes, in order to predict learners’ performance and to automatically guide students who might need more support. Based on data collected from an experimentation conducte...

Virtual and remote laboratories are of most importance when students have to acquire professional skills and competencies. Also, educational sciences establish reflection as a central concern for learners’ engagement in deep learning. As research showed that self- and social awareness promote reflection, the present research investigates how the de...

Remote practical activities have been demonstrated to be efficient when learners come to acquire inquiry skills. In computer science education, virtualization technologies are gaining popularity as this technological advance enables instructors to implement realistic practical learning activities, and learners to engage in authentic and problem-bas...

Virtual and remote laboratories are of most importance when students have to acquire professional skills and competencies. Also, educational sciences establish reflection as a central concern for learners' engagement in deep learning. As research showed that self- and social awareness promote reflection, the present research investigates how the de...

Research on online interactions during a learning situation to better understand users' practices and to provide them with quality-oriented features, resources and services is attracting a large community. As a result, the interest for sharing educational data sets that translate the interactions of users with e-learning systems has become a hot to...

Nos travaux précédents ont introduit la plateforme Tsaap-Notes dédiée à la génération de questionnaires à choix multiples en recyclant (1) les questions interactives posées pendant le cours par l’enseignant, et (2) les explications saisies par les étudiants pour constituer les feedbacks présentés aux étudiants durant les tests. Dans cet article, no...

Today technology is present in almost any activity of the human being, is in the technological processes that help us with household chores, entertainment, work, research, etc. and education is no exception in the application of these technological tools. One problem consists of the great amount of educational resources available and the need to or...

This work focuses on the use of Interactive Applications (IA) as an educational resources applied in the context of inclusive education. The Learning Object Metadata standard (LOM) is often used to facilitate the share and reuse of Learning Objects (LO). This standard suggests a wide set of metadata to describe a LO from the general, educational or...

Our previous works have introduced the Tsaap-notes platform dedicated to the semi automatic generation of multiple choice questionnaire providing feedbacks: it reuses interactive questions asked by teachers during lectures, as well as the notes taken by students after the presentation of the results as feedbacks integrated into the quizzes. In this...

Our previous work has introduced the "Tsaap- Notes" platform to increase the motivation and engagement of students in the process of collaborative note taking during lectures. In this paper, we introduce the approach "Notes as Feedback" which consists of recycling interactive questions asked during a lecture in order to semi-automatically build com...

Nos travaux précédents ont introduit la plateforme Tsaap-Notes dédiée à la génération semi-automatique de questionnaires à choix multiples pourvus de feedbacks en recyclant (1) les questions interactives posées pendant le cours par l’enseignant, et (2) les notes prises par les étudiants pour constituer les feedbacks présentés aux étudiants durant l...

This paper introduces a framework dedicated to online practical activities. Our remote laboratory is based on a distributed architecture composed of three layers: the learning interface is dedicated to end-users; the laboratory layer hosts the resources on which learners, teachers and tutors perform remote actions; the middleware layer acts as a br...

Nos travaux prédécents ont introduit la plate-forme Tsaap-Notes pour augmenter la motivation et l'engagement des étudiants dans le processus de prise de notes collaborative pendant les cours dispensés en face-à-face. Dans cet article, nous introduisons l'approche "Notes as Feedback" consistant à recycler les questions interactives posées pendant le...

Social theories of learning demonstrated that collaborative notetaking during face-to-face lecture provides important benefits: better learner engagement, collaborative learning, and knowledge building. In this paper we present Tsaap-Notes, an open micro-blogging platform dedicated to collaborative notetaking that can be used as a standalone applic...

This paper argues that autonomic systems need to make their distributed monitoring adaptive in order to improve their “comprehensive” resulting quality; that means both the Quality of Service (QoS), and the Quality of Information (QoI). Thus, we propose a methodology to design monitoring adaptation based on high level objectives (goals) related to...

This paper argues that autonomic systems need to make their distributed monitoring adaptive in order to improve their “comprehensive” resulting quality; that means both the Quality of Service (QoS), and the Quality of Information (QoI). In a previous work, we proposed a methodology to design monitoring adaptation based on high level objectives rela...

We argue in this paper that autonomic systems need to make their integrated monitoring adaptive in order to improve their “comprehensive” Quality of Service (QoS). We propose to design this adaptation based on high level objectives (called goals) related to the management of both the “functional system QoS” and the “monitoring system QoS”. Starting...

Literature shows that Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are growing in acceptance and popularity because they increase performances of students, leverage cognitive development, but also significantly reduce time to acquire knowledge and competencies. Moreover, monitoring metacognitive skills enables learners to assess performance and select approp...

Actes de la 6ème Conférence en Environnements Informatiques pour l’Apprentissage Humain

Cite as: Silveira et al. (2013). A digital ecosystem for the collaborative production of open textbooks: The LATIn methodology. Executive Summary Access to books in higher education is an issue to be addressed, especially in the context of un-derdeveloped countries, such as those in Latin America. More than just financial issues, cultural aspects a...

La personnalisation de l’apprentissage est au cœur des recherches actuelles en EIAH (Environnements Informatiques pour l’Apprentissage Humain). Les approches pour développer des EIAH permettant une personnalisation de l'apprentissage varient tant d’un point de vue didactique qu’informatique. Dans cet article, nous présentons les résultats d’une étu...

Within a traditional classroom, teachers easily discover their students in terms of knowledge, motivation or learning style, and can further exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimize their instructions. This task becomes nearly impossible in computer-mediated learning systems, since the observation and evaluation of a learning session are based o...

In this paper we present a model-driven based framework to guide efficiently the design and integration of remote computer experiments into distant learning curricula taking into the account the related educational considerations (especially efficient online teamwork and tutoring support). Our approach is centered on a specific pedagogical object:...

The importance of collaborative electronic textbooks in the context of Open Educational Resources has been growing worldwide. This paper presents an state-of-the-art analysis of collaborative methodologies necessary for the shared creation of collaborative books, with a more specific attention given to open academic textbooks. This paper explore t...

This research study addresses the design of a QoS & Management-oriented architecture capable of recognizing the specified metrics in order to monitor them dynamically. Particularly, this paper deals with the representation and instrumentation of metrics reflecting the performance and the dynamic characteristics of network resources and services. Th...

The personalization of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is an area of active research, as proven by the numerous studies concerned with the design of Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAM) systems to offer customized services to learning. These systems, based on the collect of personal data of users, face with certain privacy rules and constrain...

The most important innovations in the distance learning systems in recent years is linked to the introduction of new technologies such as adaptive and intelligent web based educational systems. A prior step for these systems to work is to collect a large volume of Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAM) from the interactions of learners with differ...

In this paper, we describe a web application composed of a set of tools and graphical user interfaces. This application aims at simplifying learning design and enhancing effective learning of distant lab work activities, in the field of computer education. This work is based on the educational concepts of the social constructivism theory, which foc...

The International E-Miage project (IEM) is an engineering curriculum composed of more than twenty international sites that deliver official French degrees. The IEM computational environment comprises many tools, platforms and users that make it very difficult to establish an up-to-date global overview of the whole set of learning entities implied i...

This paper presents a solution for recommending documents to students according to their current activity that is tracked in terms of semantic annotations associated to the accessed resources. Our approach is based on an existing tracking system that captures the user current activity, which is extended to build a user profile that comprises his/he...

Literature shows that Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are growing in acceptance and popularity because they increase performances of students, leverage cognitive development, but also significantly reduce time to acquire knowledge and competencies. We present an ITS offering the opportunity of evaluating various metacognitive indicators and able...

Nowadays, personalized education is a very hot topic in technology enhanced learning (TEL) research. To support students during their learning process, the first step consists in capturing the context in which they evolve. Users typically operate in a heterogeneous environment when learning, including learning tools such as Learning Management Syst...