Opportunities and requirements for socio-constructivist learning in Web 2.0

Christian Depover; Daniel Schneider

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1861–1869

This contribution focuses on emerging practices in the educational use of ICT and in particular of the so-called Web 2.0. After reviewing the main features of Web 2.0 and its educational uses, we will try to analyze in what respect Web 2.0 offers...

Can Open and Distance Learning Courses Increase Student Teachers Motivation During Their Training ?

Thierry Karsenti; Christian Depover; Vassilis Komis

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 2074–2079

The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of the implementation of a compulsory Open and distance learning course on preservice teachers' motivation. Subjects were enrolled in a four-year teacher education program (n = 429) in the...

Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers, Distance Education

Small-scale v. large-scale approaches to distance learning in francophone countries of the South

Alain Jaillet; Christian Depover; Bernadette Noel; Anemone Geiger

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 324–329

Distance-learning projects of many and varied kinds have been conceived and developed for African university students. Most of these projects are geared to a mass market, aiming to take advantage of economies of scale and so reduce the costs of such ...

Different Levels of Internet Integration in University Academic Activities: examples and pedagogical implications

Denis Harvey; Christian Depover; Bruno DeLievre; Jean Jacque Quintin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 682–686

In the four examples of pedagogic integration of Internet in a "multimodal" university situation reported herein, we bring into light an innovative process whose central objectives were improvement of the quality and relevance of the training...

Topics: Internet, Integration