Contacts : Valérie Emin ,Jean-Philippe Pernin

Team

Pierre Bénech, Valérie Emin, Catherine Loisy et Jean-Philippe Pernin (associated member )

Presentation

The world of education is nowadays undergoing a steady growth of projects which aim at improving, and supporting already existing teaching practice by providing digital materials and computerized commnunication tools. The learning environments looked for depend on more and more diverse rules intertwining individual or collaborative learning, class work, homework or field work, synchronous or asynchronous work, etc. So much complexity requires those new learning devices to be formalized through the use of scenarios.
A sum of research work (see bibliography) and field initiatives offer models, methods and tools so as to conceive, set up, put to use and analyse the learning situations  while giving a new light to the traditional parts played by the actors (students, teachers, tutors, parents, etc.). We are presently concerned with offering formal schemes allowing to describe the organization and the unfolding of those situations thanks to a learning scenario specifying the parts played by the actors, the tasks with which they are entrusted, the resources they use or produce, and the interactions which may result henceforth.

The work of the Scenarios project, conducted with the collaboration of practitioners, aims at designing, setting up, adjusting, observing, analysing and sharing learning scenarios using ICT.

This project finds its roots within the Digital culture, ICT and Education program of the INRP.

Partnership

Started within the e-Praxis team in 2005, the Scenarios project falls among the structuring projects of the “EducTice team.” It ramifies among a partnership dynamics with a research lab (LIG- University of Grenoble), some university institutes or services (the Teacher Training Institute of Lyon 1, PRACTICE University of Lyon 1) together with offices of the Education Department (“Office of the SDTICE uses” ) or of the Board of Education (CTICE, network of the academic representatives, IANTE eg). The various actions resulting from those partnerships are meant to become part of the Apprentice  Program (PPF).

Actions

The research on Scenarios falls under several actions for the EducTice team :

• Scen@TIC : this action focuses on designing and experimenting learning scenarios using digital technologies inside classrooms and outside (mobile learning, ubiquitous learning). Design can concern scenarios and patterns and is realised in collaboration with teachers at  french secondary school in various subject matters and more specificaly in Sciences and Technologies.
• ScenEdit is a graphical authoring environment dedicated to facilitate teachers’ task in designing and implementing learning scenarios using Information and Communication Technology It is more particularly based on the theories of reusable components, of scenario patterns and of archetypal scenarios.
• ACTORS (2005-2007), a project refered to by the ACI (action concertée incitative) as Fields, techniques, theories: cross-curricular work in human and social sciences, which specifically tackles the description of the scenarios in Orchestrated and Collective Situations of Learning within higher education.
• SPE (Mobile Learning Scenario) (2006-2009), this research focuses on the pedagogical uses of ubiquitous technologies. The aim here is to describe learning scenarios which take pedagogy outside the classroom shaking the long-time received notions of teaching-learning space and time.