Educational Objective

Techno-pedagogical watch

A techno-pedagogical watch activity is expected to help selecting ongoing tools and resources with regards to their usefulness for learning and teaching activities. This screening can then be integrated and offered to PLE users who can use them if they want to. The watch will be organized around a community of experts made of members coming from all partners’ institutions. Different information sources will also be available to this community: blogs, elearning tools collections and evaluations, reviews of the scientific literature, etc.

Training

The aspect of training is particularly important when considering the objective of the PLE and ePortfolio is to target independent users or self-directed learners. Such an autonomy develops only with the help of scaffolding activities. It requires first an initial training on technology and second an introduction to its educational uses and formats. Such trainings can take different forms (workshop, seminar, training modules, etc.) which will be offered to different audiences (BA and MA students, PhD students, teachers, etc.).

Information

Information remains a key pillar to support future PLE and ePortfolio users to grasp the benefits of techno-pedagogical tools. This effectively requires a set of documents, with diversified contents and forms to meet various users (teachers, BA, MA and PhD students). This includes:

  • Practical worksheets (ie. pdf) and interactive tutorials (ie. video captures) introducing basic tools.
  • Good practice guides to help users make better use of tools (including the ePortfolio).
  • Educational scenarios allowing trainers to easily integrate the tools of PLE and ePortfolio in their courses and learning activities.

Formative Evaluation Process

The project development is supported by a continuous formative evaluation process of the tools and of their usages in order to improve the understanding of the students’ ICT needs. This includes:

  • surveys and analysis of users’ needs;
  • tests of prototypes (PLE and ePortfolio) about their usability aspects (direct observation of users and feedback discussions);
  • evaluation of training sessions and of information resources on their impact on the development of ICT usage skills (questionnaires and discussion sessions with teachers ans students).
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