Un professeur du Cégep de St-Félicien explique combien a été salutaire le choix de WordPress comme support à son projet de portfolio initialement prévu en format papier. Si l'implication du conseiller pédagogique TIC dans le projet explique la conversion au numérique de l'enseignant, il faut (…)
Internet et ses multiples possibilités font partie du quotidien de la plupart des enfants et adolescents. Pourquoi ne pas investir cet outil d’une mission éducative ? Depuis un certain temps, plusieurs enseignants apprennent à utiliser les différentes technologies pour favoriser l’apprentissage (…)
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The smartphone is a recent technological addition to post-secondary education and it has both educational and non-educational applications. This study examines the educational use of smartphones using principles from actor-network theory (ANT). The purpose of the investigation was to learn (...)
Information and communications technology (ICT) is integrated throughout a student’s lived experience in their post-secondary learning environment. In order for students with limited or no background with ICT to achieve their academic goals, a central part of their adaptation involves an (...)
jeudi 14 février 2013 par Edward Hamilton, Norm Friesen
This paper argues that research into the pedagogical value and potential of new technologies is limited by the implicit philosophical perspectives on technology that such research adopts. These perspectives either imbue technologies with inalienable qualities (essentialism) or posit technology (...)
Educational Technology and Design 879 is a graduate course that introduces students to the basics of video design and production. In an attempt to improve the learning experience for students a redesign of the course was implemented for the summer of 2011 that incorporated an authentic design (...)
Researchers have examined the use of homemade PowerPoint games as an instructional technique to improve learning outcomes. However, test data have shown no significant difference in performance between high school chemistry students who created games and students who did not (Siko, Barbour, (…)
Media representations of massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as those offered by Coursera, edX and Udacity reflect tension and ambiguity in their bold promise of democratized education and global knowledge sharing. An approach to MOOCs that emphasizes the tacit epistemology of such (...)
Un constat fait l’unanimité : le décrochage scolaire est un fléau qu’il faut prioriser pour favoriser la réussite scolaire du plus grand nombre. Plusieurs études ont déjà été consacrées à cette problématique. Caroline Langer, une étudiante-chercheuse de l’Université de Montréal, en propose une (…)