TECFA Research and Teaching unit in Educational and Learning technologies OverviewPeopleTeachingResearch January 2004

PSYCHOLOGYEDUCATION COMMUNICATION COMPUTER SCIENCE TECFA OverviewPeopleTeachingResearch

OverviewPeopleTeachingResearch Mireille Betrancourt Daniel Peraya Daniel K. Schneider Staf PhD. Students Barbara Class, Nathalie Deschryver, Vivian P. Synteta Collaborators and assistants DEPOVER Christian, FITOURI Samir, FRETE Catherine, GONZALEZ Luis, JACCAZ Berenice, LATTION Stéphane, MORAND Stéphane, POIRIER Charline, REBETEZ Cyril, SIERRA Elodie, VIENS Jacques. François Lombard

Research Graduate diploma (Master) Sciences and Technologies for Learning and Teaching Undergraduate studies (Psycho and Education) Computer-based learning environments Mediated communication and learning Human-Computer Interaction OverviewPeopleTeaching Integrating technologies in the classroom

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

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?

IntersTICES’ mandate (Swiss Virtual Campus) To provide pedagogical support to the projects. 2.To identify the projects’ pedagogical practices and factors affecting the exploitation of the innovative potential of ICT. 3.To set the bases of an evaluation framework ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching

How ICT can change instructional strategies The « wiki » as a co-construction tool (François’s demo) ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching

ResearchOverviewPeopleTeaching How do we learn from multimedia and hypermedia document ? How to design more effective multimedia and hypermedia documents ? CLEAP Project = Collaborative Learning from Animated Pictures Cognitive tools for learning Voir rift animationrift animation

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

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