Tecfa Virtual Campus

1. TECFA (Educational Technology Lab) School of Education & Psychology, University of Geneva Tecfa Virtual Campus Collective Activities in http://tecfa.unige.ch

2. ~ 4 weeks @ home 1 week @ tecfa Master degree in Educational Technologies

3. What's a virtual campus? 1 5 A Web site for university teaching 3 Distance + Presence 6 Broad curriculum 4 An opportunity to improve education 2 Integrated student managment A spatial metaphor

4. Would you take the plane if pilots wre trained on the Web ?

5. There is no pedagogical innovation in lecturing on the Web: putting notes or slides, videoconferencing, …. It is not a matter of pedagogical snobism. It has just been proved that lecturing is not effective. E-mail does not make students motivated, clever and available. Why should they communicate.

6. « Laboratoire d ’Ergonomie » Zone 12, Bâtiment 1 Campus Virtuel TECFA

7. « Laboratoire d ’Ergonomie » Zone 12, Bâtiment 1 Campus Virtuel TECFA

8. (1) pseudo-task individual collaborative differences (2) debriefing collective Looking for innovative activities

9. pseudo-task solo individual differences pseudo-task duo group differences debriefing ¨Tecfa Virtual Campus, Village 16, Building1 : « Argue Graph »

10. ¨Tecfa Virtual Campus, Village 16, Building1 : « Argue Graph » pseudo-task solo individual differences pseudo-task duo group differences debriefing

11. ¨Tecfa Virtual Campus, Village 16, Building1 : « Argue Graph » pseudo-task solo Individual differences pseudo-task duo group differences debriefing

12. ¨Tecfa Virtual Campus, Village 16, Building1 : « Argue Graph » pseudo-task solo individual differences pseudo-task duo group differences debriefing

13. ¨Tecfa Virtual Campus, Village 16, Building1 : « Argue Graph » pseudo-task solo individual differences Theories Behavioursime Constructivisn Metacognition pseudo-task duo Design choices Immediate FB Delayed FB Microworld FB group differences debriefing

14. 49% Does conflict have an effect on the arguments ? ¨Tecfa Virtual Campus, Village 16, Building1 : « Argue Graph » n=18

15. Victory New Union 6 16 10 14 8 13 ¨Tecfa Virtual Campus, Village 16, Building1 : « Argue Graph » Semantic content of arguments

16. Accept Discard Condition 1 28 3 11 23 1 ¨Tecfa Virtual Campus, Village 16, Building1 : « Argue Graph » Type of arguments "We answer 3 because motivation is important" "We choose 3 because 2 does not work" "We answer 2 if the learner is a child but we answer 3 for adult learners"

17. TECFA • Less text, more activities • Structure groupwork • Don't expect, analyse. • Build on databases. • Design also for presence . Distance is not the question, the question is learning. Conclusions