For a renewed academy industry research partnership

Nicolas Balacheff (1)

1 Leibniz - IMAG - Laboratoire Leibniz

The joint venture between the academic research on learning technology and industry along the past decade shares similarity with the gold rush: great effort for a too small outcome. From all the energy spent, "acadustry" has emerged; a chimerical community of practice, merging academic and industry objectives and traditions. The relevance and fruitfulness of this new community is questionable. This presentation will suggest revisiting the orientation of the eLearning research policy, taking into account the differences in nature between academic research, R&D and actual production and use. Among the priorities of policies to discuss, the following will be mentioned: (i) an incentive to reach a research consensus that complements the standardization effort; (ii) a strategic alliance between industry and research at a basic level for a common and enhanced understanding of differences and commonalities; (iii) a new balance between long lasting support to research, especially for pan-European initiatives in the context of ERA and in line with the current FP6 Networks of Excellence, and competitive calls focussing on specific actions. At a thematic level, this presentation will outline the lessons learned throughout the past decade and express a view on research priorities from a foundational and applied perspective.

Mots clés: e-learning; transfer of technologies; Acadustry

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain

Nicolas Balacheff. For a renewed academy industry research partnership. eLearning Conference 2005, 2005, Brussels, Belgium. 5 p. ⟨hal-00190266⟩