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MODALES Project: Modeling Didactic-based Active Learning Environment in Sciences (2005-2008)

Object : MODALES project is aimed at designing an adaptive E-learning  system  for  probationary  teachers,  based  on real practices. The course topic is about “the air as gas in its  static  and  dynamic  aspects:  properties,  theory  and applications”  for  different  categories  of  probationary teachers  –  called  learners.  In  our  framework,  scenarios may  change  according  to  the following  features:  i)  the category  of  learners  having  intra  and  inter  category variability;  ii)  the  available  resources  from  different domains  -  physics, didactic  and  epistemology  -  which can  be  determined  by  teachers  iii)  distance  or  face-to-face  activity  according  to  learner  needs  and  learning policy  iv)  the  sharing  of  activities  between  teachers, learners  and  computers  according  to  learner  needs  and learning  policies.  These  features  will  lead  to  adaptation policies  in  the  E-learning  system.  The  main  issue  is  to design  a  generic  scenario  which  can  deal  with  most  of learning   situations.   From   a   generic   scenario,   the   e-learning  system  will  compute  on  the  fly  a  particular scenario dedicated to the current learner and its learning situation. The generic scenario acts as scaffolding in the e-learning system.

Partenars: CREAD (Rennes2-IUFM de Bretagne), IUFM de Bretagne, centre de Brest et Rennes, Centre de Recherches en Psychologie, Cognition et Communication (EA 1285), Rennes, Université de Rennes 2

 

 

P-Learnet Project: Pervasive Learning Network (2007- 2011)

The main goal of the p-LearNet project is to explore the potential of Pervasive Communications, for a large and important   field   of   application: human   learning,   whatever   the   place, the time, the organisational and technological contexts, of the individual or collective learning process. It seems effectively that human learning, considered as formal or informal knowledge exchanges and buildings, through Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) systems, is crucial for the development not only of the level of education of a population, but also for the performance  of  the  organisations.  It  is  clear  that  our pilot  sites  (e.g.,  Auchan,  La  Poste...)  see  the  learning process, not only as valuable for their  employees  in  order to  be  more  efficient  and  reactive  to  the  commercial situation, but also for their clients especially into e-Commerce (BtoB or BtoC).

The p-LearNet project aims at proving the feasibility of a new domain of functionalities for an emerging domain called “Pervasive Learning” (or p-Learning) which will be more that a clever integration of the future telecommunication technologies and networks. But it will be also the design of new original and innovative ways to learn into the context of “Ambient Intelligence”. It will take into account not only the ubiquity of the learning systems and the mobility of the learners, but also new required properties for this new learning mode, and the potential of multimedia, multi-channels and multimodal user interfaces, sensible to the personality of the user/learner, in a One-to-One approach. By multi-channels we mean a rich choice of combination of a particular end user terminal with different kind of networks (Quality of Services, topology, protocols, costs) including voice and video and person-to-person communication. P-Learning systems imply also the capacity, in a particular field of application, to master the processes of discovery, composition, adaptation of contextual services and interactions with the users, and to overcome the problem of the complexity issued from the large possible combinations of elements.

Another key problem is the requirement for a continuous following of the user into a great variety of contexts, and our effort will be put also into this direction at two levels: inside the intermediation infrastructure, between the service universe and the communication universe, by putting more “intelligence” to provide seamless services whatever the channels in use or past ruptures; and outside, for the experiments, by providing a specific instrumentation of the experimental platforms, that take into account the distributed and evolving nature of the interactions and problems of evaluation of remote usability.

 

Partenars: LIFL Lille University, Auchan, La poste, French Virtual Medical University, INT- GET

Keywords: Pervasive and Context-Aware Technology Enhanced Learning Systems, Scenarios, Adaptation, Semantic Web