1. TECFA Research and Teaching unit in Educational and Learning technologies OverviewPeopleTeachingResearch May 2006

2. PSYCHOLOGYEDUCATION COMMUNICATION COMPUTER SCIENCE TECFA OverviewPeopleTeachingResearch

3. OverviewPeopleTeachingResearch Mireille BETRANCOURT Daniel PERAYA Daniel K. SCHNEIDER Nicolas SZILAS Staff PhD. Students Martin Acosta, Barbara Class, Nathalie Deschryver, Laurence Gagnière, Luis Gonzalez, Stéphane Lattion, François Lombard, Cyril Rebetez, Vivian P. Synteta. Collaborators and assistants CLAUDE Jessica, DEPOVER Christian, DIEGO Veronica, FRETE Catherine, LATTION Stéphane, RICHLE Urs. François LOMBARD Laurent DUBOIS IS : Stéphane MORAND Secr : Véronique MOREAU

4. Research Bachelor studies (Psycho and Education) Computer-based learning environments Mediated communication and learning Human-Computer Interaction OverviewPeopleTeaching Integrating technologies in the classroom

5. Research MALTT: MAster in Learning and Teaching Technologies OverviewPeopleTeaching Blended education Technologies integrated in the learning process  Information and Communication Systems  Design of computer supported learning environment  Mediated communication and education  Cognitive engineering of complex information systems  Methodology in ICTE

6. ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Mediated Communication and distance education Cognitive and metacognitive tools for learning Innovative Information and Communication Systems Main research topics Variety of research methods Laboratory experiments Field studies Action research

7. Social componant ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Semiotic componant Cognitive componant Mediated Communication and distance education How to design effective mediated / distance education situations? How does mediated / distance education affect learning and teaching?

8. ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching How do we process information from multimedia, hypermedia, collaborative and augmented environements? How to design more effective computer supported learning environment ? Cognitive and metacognive tools for learning

9. ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching CLEAP Project: Swiss Science foundation grant in collaboration with Pierre Dillenbourg at EPFL Learning collaboratively from multimedia documents

10. ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Learning collaboratively from multimedia documents (2) Interaction between situation and snapshots: F(1 ;152) = 6.630; p<.05 No snapshotSnapshots Snapshot condition -0.2010 0.00 0.20 Inference score (z-score ) Solo Duo Single Pairs Split interaction effect?

11. ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Collaborative argumentation

12. ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Object of the confrontation: self or peer’s activity Type of traces: process or product Structuration of the confrontation Presence or absence of the peer Promoting metacognitive activities through ‘allo-confrontation’

13. ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Design of « intelligent learning » environments Learning and practice community portals Ex : TECFASEED project (Daniel Schneider) Innovative Information and Communication systems

14. ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Community portals

15. wiki awareness regulation ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Community portals

16. Mirroring and Metacognitive tools Jermann (2004) ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching

17. Writing by learning in initial vocational training ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching Dual-T Project: OFFT grant for a leading house and 4 research project in collaboration with Pierre Dillenbourg at EPFL and Jean- Luc Gurtner at University of Fribourg. Technologies can promote integration between the school and the workplace.  web-based journal to develop ‘writing-by-learning’ scenarios in project-based approach  Facilitated interaction between tutors and tutees through the use of instant messages  Mobile and embedded technologies

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