TECFA Team

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Mandate  Pedagogical support  and evaluation
framework

• TECFA Team
• Daniel Peraya, co-ordinator,
• Jacques Viens (1/1, from the 1rst term of 2002),
• Nathalie Deschryver, assistant (1/2, from
  November 1rst 01).

http//tecfa.unige.ch/proj/cvs
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What s the mandate ?

• The mandate is mainly aimed at  improving the
  quality of the projects in progress, capitalizing
  the teaching experience of the projects involved
  in the SVC and establishing the bases for an
  evaluation of all the projects   (page 1).
• Which projects in charge of Tecfa ? Initially
  those of the French and Italian speaking
  Switzerland (Fribourg, Genève, Lausanne,
  Neuchâtel, EPFL et USI) ... a few projects of
  German speaking Switzerland.

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The expected tasks are (page 2) 

• the development of the support and supervision
  activities of the SVC projects related to the
  psycho-pedagogical and methodological aspects of
  the use the technologies of education 
• the constitution of an inventory of the projects
  by insisting upon the exploitation of the
  potential of the technologies, upon their
  integration in the scenarios worked out as well
  as in the extent to which the projects are
  innovative and interactive 
• the preparation of the bases for an evaluation
  framework typical of this mode of innovative
  teaching in collaboration with the national and
  international community (page 2)

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Some objectives of the SVC

• How can Information and communication
  technologies (ICT) respond to the stakes of
  higher education in the present context of the
  knowledge society that is known to call for a
  redefinition of the teacher role and learner
  role ?
• Which strategies to adopt in order to enhance the
  use of ICT for learning ? What are the teaching
  and innovating qualities of these practices and
  how can they be evaluated ?
• How can such teaching practices be stimulated and
  supported within the SVC projects? How can the
  exchanges of practice be favored inside and
  outside of the institution ?

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• Other concerns are essential for us and will be
  central in our work 
• What s innovation ?
• And...
• Which conditions to ensure the sustainability of
  the projects ? How to support their real
  integration in institutions and practices ?

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A few answers in international researches

• about the new definition of the learning process
  and strategies to support it
• about the conditions of integration of
  innovative projects within the practices and the
  institutions
• etc.

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Position of Tecfa Team

• Local and global work
• local at the level of each project
• global for defining a general framework to
  evaluate integration of ICT in higher education.
• Participative process
• in collaboration with actors of each project
• in the respect of their pedagogical choices

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First steps of our work
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Envisaged actions (specified after analyse of
needs)

• follow-up of the projects  to support an
  awareness of the practices and their coherence
  regarding a global context, 
• implementation of a community of practices (web
  site of resources sharing and discussion group,
  meeting times) aiming at the exchange of
  experiences, collaborative sites on specific
  issues,  
• organization of seminaries with the actors of the
  projects meeting specific needs encountered 
• etc.

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And...

• To collaborate with teams in charge of the
  technical and pedagogical support within several
  projects (the  centre NTE  in Fribourg, the
   cenTEF  in Lausanne, etc.)
• To collaborate with the Zurich team in charge of
  the Mandate (Prof. Oelkers - equality) and teams
  in charge of the technical support
• At the global level, to collaborate with
  international projects working on similar topics
  
• To diffuse our results.