Participating Virtually to a Scientific Conference: A Collaborative E-Learning Scenario for Authentic Learning In Higher Education

Josianne Basque (1) , Kim Dao (2) , Julien Contamines (1)

1 Centre LICEF - TÉLUQ - Laboratoire d'Informatique Cognitive et d'Environnements de Formation - Téluq, l'université à distance de l'UQAM
2 TELUQ - Université Téluq

This paper presents a collaborative e-learning scenario inspired by socio-constructivist and situated learning theories which encourage authentic learning. Developed for a graduate distance education course, this scenario requires students to participate virtually in an asynchronous scientific conference. This paper presents the learning scenario, the technological environment developed to implement this scenario, as well as the results of a preliminary investigation which examines students' perceptions and satisfaction towards the scenario and the environment.

Keywords: e-learning; socio-constructivism; authentic learning

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Josianne Basque, Kim Dao, Julien Contamines. Participating Virtually to a Scientific Conference: A Collaborative E-Learning Scenario for Authentic Learning In Higher Education. Wold Conference on Educational Multimedia (ED-MEDIA) 2005, 2005, Montreal, Canada. pp.1953-1960. ⟨hal-00190660⟩