1994-2001: The Fragility of e Learning

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1994-2001 The Fragility of e Learning
Pierre DillenbourgTECFAUniversity of Geneva
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Teachers

• You are not the only one to face problems

Researchers
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Loss of "time habits" Confusion between
flexibility and workload How do we count time for
students? How do we count time for teachers? Time
is our bottleneck (more than bandwidth)
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diversity
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Is the Web constructivist?
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Constructivism versus Learner Control Deep
versus shallow interactivity gtgt Innovative
situations are fragile
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Example 1(TECFA Virtual Campus) Goal Discover
common mistakes in writing multiple choice
questionnaires
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This is not scientific research, just teacher
experience, but raise interesting
issues eLearning is not more fragile, but, in
case of problems, adaptation is more difficult
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Example 2 (TECFA Virtual Campus) Goal Discover
relationship between learning theorie and
families of educational software
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ArgueGraph
Phase1
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ArgueGraph
Phase 2
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ArgueGraph
Phase 3
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ArgueGraph
Phase 4
Theories Behavioursim Constructivism Metacognition
Design choices Immediate FB Delayed FB Microworld
FB
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ArgueGraph Data (Exp.3)
Reformulation Justification Solo 57
43 Duo 15 85
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ArgueGraph Data (Exp.3)
"We choose 3 because 2 does not work"
"We answer 2 if the learner is a child but we
answer 3 for adult learners"
"We answer 3 because motivation is important"
Accept Condition Discard No
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ArgueGraph Data (Exp.3)
Arg(AB) Arg(A) or Arg(AB) Arg(B )
Arg(AB) ltgt Arg(A) Arg(AB) ltgt Arg(B)
Arg(AB)Arg(A) U Arg(B )
New Union Victory No
Conflict 6 16 10 Conflict 14
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New version of ArgueGraph

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What's the problem with exp 4 ?
Exp 4
Exp 1-3
pseudo-task
pseudo-task
Coffee-break
debriefing
1 week
debriefing

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• You are not the only one to face problems

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Analysing breakdowns is a good heuristic
Problems shake routine
Time-sensitive dynamics of self-representation
and group representations
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European Conference on Computer-Supported
Collaborative Learning Maastricht March 22-24,
2001