mercredi 1er février 2017 par Samuel Fournier St-Laurent, Bruno Poellhuber, Madona Moukhachen
Although research shows that the use of active learning clasrooms, specially designed for the use of technologies and active pedagogies, has positive impacts on learning (Beichner et al., 2007), the process by which teachers come to adopt this type of class setup has yet to be explored in (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Sonia Lefebvre, Ghislain Samson, Alexandre Gareau, Nancy Brouillette
The interactive whiteboard (IWB) is increasingly used for teaching and learning in the classroom. Nevertheless, the ways that teachers incorporate this tool within their teaching practices remain poorly understood. This paper examines elementary and high school teachers’ self-reported practices (…)
mardi 9 août 2016 par Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell, Rachel Muehrer, Erin McLaughlin-Jenkins
There is a great deal of enthusiasm for the use of games in formal educational contexts; however, there is a notable and problematic lack of studies that make use of replicable study designs to empirically link games to learning (Young, et al., 2012). This paper documents the iterative design (...)
Sustainable pre-service teacher education is needed to encourage academic success for under-represented populations, through both culturally responsive and alternative programming options (Carr-Stewart, Balzer, & Cottrell, 2013). In 2013, the Western Canadian University that served as the (...)
mardi 9 août 2016 par Lorraine Mary Carter, Mary Hanna, Wayne Warry
Nurses in Canada face diverse challenges to their ongoing educational pursuits. As a result, they have been early adopters of courses and programs based on distance education principles and, in particular, online learning models. In the study described in this paper, nurses studying at two (...)
mardi 9 août 2016 par Heather Marie Farmer, Jennifer Ramsdale
The goals of this study are to identify key competency areas that lead to success in online instruction and to develop a framework that supports professional development and self-assessment. To identify the key competency areas, skills and behaviours presented within current literature were (...)
mardi 9 août 2016 par Nadia Cody, Sandra Coulombe, Patrick Giroux, Diane Gauthier, Suzie Gaudreault
Bien que les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) occupent une place de plus en plus prépondérante, tant au sein de la société que de l’école (Anderson, 2010), on remarque que leur intégration en contexte scolaire représente encore un défi de taille (Underwood et Dillon, (…)
mardi 9 août 2016 par Anne-Laure Foucher, Hyeon Yun
Notre article se propose de documenter la recherche sur les liens pouvant exister entre des apprentissages formels, institutionnalisés et des apprentissages informels. Nous nous intéressons particulièrement aux possibilités de transfert des pratiques technologiques de la sphère privée vers la (...)
Cette étude s’inscrit dans un contexte de télécollaboration entre des apprenants d’anglais et de français dans un environnement virtuel en 3D - Second Life. Elle s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux relations entre l’utilisation des langues cibles, les activités proposées et l’environnement (…)