Patrick Charland

Université du Québec à Montréal | UQAM · Department of Teaching

Millions of students follow online classes which are delivered in video format. Several studies examine the impact of these video formats on engagement and learning using explicit measures and outline the need to also investigate the implicit cognitive and emotional states of online learners. Our study compared two video formats in terms of engagem...

Education is going through a period of crisis related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that most probably will follow a continuum organized into distinct phases: emergency, recovery, reconstruction, development, and institutionalization. This article analyzes the response of curriculum to an unpredictable, chaotic, and recursive crisis situation. The art...

Novel data collection methods and analysis algorithms developed in the field of neuroergonomics have opened new possibilities for research in education. Psychophysiological data can characterize the cognitive and emotional dimensions of engagement. This paper aims to describe the application of this research methodology to synchronously measure emo...

Addressed to professionals and researchers, this article proposes a reflection on the issues and risks associated with certain uses of labels that allow qualification of tested, promoted or contested pedagogical practices and interventions in science education. Often paired in dichotomies, these labels are here presented as sometimes generating cre...

To counteract declining interest in science, contextualizing course material has been suggested, despite little evidence supporting this strategy. We assessed how reading physics problems in different contexts-none, technical, or humanistic-impacted performance and implicit cognitive and affective situational interest (SI) among undergraduate men a...

Ce texte apporte un regard critique empirique à des études citées en preuve d’inefficacité de l’enseignement en ligne. Compte tenu de l’importance de considérer les pratiques et l’activité des acteurs avec une certaine finesse lorsqu’on analyse ou évalue tout dispositif éducatif, nous avons analysé quelles informations de cet ordre sont considérées...

Across the world, young people do not have the same opportunities to develop their potential and become well-rounded adults. The world’s population is approximately 1.8 billion young people aged 10–24 years, and about 90% of them live in developing countries within an extreme development context. Optimal development of those generations depends on...

Pour générer des conclusions valables, les études en éducation doivent reposer sur des échantillons de qualité. En plus d’être d’une taille suffisante, ces derniers doivent être représentatifs, c’est-à-dire être une version miniature de la population. Le présent article méthodologique décrit les défis liés au recrutement d’un échantillon de qualité...

This article aims to fill a gap in the literature regarding violence against students in humanitarian crisis contexts by comparing the risk perceptions of young refugees during the time they were out of school to the time they were enrolled in an educational program. Through this comparison, the article aims to generate deeper reflection on the per...

From 2014 to 2017, the Islamic State in Irak and Syria (ISIS), a terrorist political organization of Salafist jihadist ideology, had put in place an operational and relatively stable educational system. Among its Complementary Programs, ISIS included a curriculum for programming using the Scratch software. In this article, we discuss this curriculu...

This research reports empirical evidence of the pedagogical benefits of using two interactive types of immersive spherical dome screens (large and small). Results are drawn from an experiment measuring the emotional, cognitive, perceptual/attitudinal states, and learning outcomes of 102 participants divided into control/experimental groups and grou...

The academic community has highlighted the lack of research into accelerated education programs (AEPs) in refugee camps. Furthermore, AEPs take different forms in different countries. Generally speaking, however, several AEPs in different parts of the world are known for their low attendance rates. Accordingly, this article presents the key barrier...

Although a growing number of studies indicate that simple strategies, intuitions, or cogni-tive shortcuts called heuristics can persistently interfere with scientific reasoning in physics and chemistry, the persistence of heuristics related to learning biology is less known. In this study, we investigate the persistence of the "moving things are al...

Across the world, young people do not have the same opportunities to develop their potential and become well-rounded adults. The world's population is approximately 1.8 billion young people aged 10 to 24, and about 90% of them live in developing countries within extreme development context. Optimal development of those generations depends on the re...

This paper aims to explore the impact of a collective immersion on learners’ engagement and performance. Building on Bandura’s social learning theory and the theory on the sense of presence, we hypothesise that collective immersion has a positive impact on performance as well as cognitive, emotional and behavioural engagement. Ninety-three particip...

Cet article propose une réflexion sur les problèmes et risques associés à certaines utilisations d’étiquettes permettant de qualifier les pratiques et les interventions pédagogiques testées, promues ou contestées dans le cadre de l’enseignement des sciences. Souvent pairées en dichotomies, ces étiquettes sont parfois présentées comme pouvant génére...

Effect of serious games and virtual simulations on learning achievement in science

Moderator effect of level of realism on learning achieved in science with serious games

Un outil permettant d'initier efficacement les étudiants et les étudiantes de cycles supérieurs aux réalités du champ de l'éducation aux sciences et à la technologie

In this article, we propose an analysis of the state of, and trends in, the field of conceptual change research in science education through the lens of its models. Using a quantitative approach, we reviewed all conceptual change articles (n = 245) published in five major journals in the field of science education in search of the support that thei...

Serious games have become increasingly available to educators. Empirical studies and meta-analyses have examined their impact on learning achievement. However, natural sciences could have a special relation to serious games by their systematic use of quantitative and predictive models that can generate microworlds and simulations. Since no known me...

We conducted an unprecedented analysis of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) primary school science curriculum. The research question focuses on the general scientific quality of the five documents examined, the integration of religious content and the possible tensions between science and religion that result from including such material i...

The study investigates how learner experience with applications (apps) and how app types (native vs. non-native) influence performance in reading comprehension. Twenty-five high school students used different apps to read four texts. The students were asked to use the annotation feature of the apps to facilitate their reading. Ease of use, usefulne...

“Serious” video games (SVGs) are increasingly used as supplementary teaching tools for mathematics education. Several studies report their positive impact on student learning. However, these impacts are variable, and the success of the tools cannot be generalized or extended to all settings or disciplines without an in-depth look at the games thems...

This paper aims to investigate the predictive property of pupil dilation in an IT-related task. Previous work in the field of cognitive pupillometry has established that pupil size is associated with cognitive load. We conducted a within-subject experiment with 22 children aged between 7 and 9. For the hard questions, visit duration, pupil size and...

Les idées et méthodes guidant la robotique éducative proviennent essentiellement des années 1960, lorsque, pour une première fois, furent développés et ensuite utilisés des effecteurs reliés à un ordinateur dans un cadre scolaire. Depuis les années 1990, le marché de la robotique éducative a grandement évolué, de sorte que l'on peut actuellement tr...

The objective of the article is to provide empirical support for curriculum development to instructors using enactive learning in IS. Specifically, we are interested in understanding which instructional design, combining enactive and vicarious learning, leads to the most effective learning achievement and development of self-efficacy. Specifically,...

Purpose A major trend in enterprise resource planning software (ERP) is to embed business analytics tools within user-centered roles in enterprise software. This integration allows business users to get better and faster insight to action. As a consequence, it is imperative for business students to learn how to use these new tools to adequately pr...

In recent years, researchers from several administrative social sciences have leveraged theories and tools from neuroscience to advance knowledge in their own discipline. We argue that those initiatives have also helped to better interconnect scientific research domains. To illustrate our argument, we present the case of NeuroIS and Neuroeducation....

Research in education, management, and other social sciences have started to integrate a rich portfolio of neuroscience theories and methods into the development of digital applied platforms that capture real-time conscious and unconscious facets of experience and responses. A team roadmap presentation of such approach applied to education, informa...

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In this paper, we investigate the visual behaviors of learners in contextualized and decontextualized physics problem. Specifically, we aim to compare the visual patterns between successful and unsuccessful problem solvers and studying if the contextualization of the problems influence their attentional behaviors. We present preliminary results fro...

This research studies the influence of individual knowledge mastery of competency task performance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) learners. The research design involved the assessment of participants’ ERP competency, each of whom participated in four games of a computer-based simulation, ERPsim. ERP knowledge was assessed using a validated q...

La moitié des 57 millions d’enfants non scolarisés dans le monde vit dans des pays touchés par une guerre, ce qui fait des conflits armés la barrière la plus importante restreignant l’accès à l’éducation (UNHCR, 2014). C’est en réponse à ce problème que l’éducation a été reconnue en 2007 par les Nations unies comme un domaine à part entière de l’ai...

In physics, women find contexts concerning human biology, medical applications, or natural phenomena highly relevant (Hoffmann, 2002), and the rareness or absence of these in physics curricula may make it more difficult for women to develop and maintain their interest in physics. To date, research in physics education addressing student's interest...

As a contribution to the emergence of a learning interactions research relying on educational neuroscience data, this talk aims to discuss the potential transferability of methods and algorithms developed in the field of neuroergonomics. The author recently developed a methodology that assesses the multiple dimensions of learner engagement (behavio...

In a recent theoretical synthesis on the concept of engagement, Fredricks, Blumenfeld and Paris1 defined engagement by its multiple dimensions: behavioral, emotional and cognitive. They observed that individual types of engagement had not been studied in conjunction, and little information was available about interactions or synergy between the dim...

Slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/PierreMajoriqueLger/the-learner-is-not-a-black-box-measuring-emotion-engagement-and-learning-while-playing Neuroscience tools and theories can help to measure and understand the emotion and cognitive state of learners. Recent results in the field of neuroeducation demonstrate that tools such as oculome...

Favoriser l'intérêt au sujet des sciences au moyen de l'éducation dans et par l'environnement Les Journées du Centr'ERE: 5 e séminaire 18 septembre 2014 Université du Québec à Montréal Luciole Crédit : René Limoges