New Distributed Research Practices and Scientific Immersion of Graduate Students with the Support of Technologies: The Case of Mentor

Lysanne Lessard (1) , France Henri (2) , Nicola Hagemeister (3) , Amaury Daele (4)

1 TELUQ - Université Téluq
2 Centre LICEF - TÉLUQ - Laboratoire d'Informatique Cognitive et d'Environnements de Formation - Téluq, l'université à distance de l'UQAM
3 Département de génie de la production automatisée
4 UNIFR - Université de Fribourg = University of Fribourg

MENTOR is a multidisciplinary research training program for graduate students in research field of mobility and posture disorders. Its members are distributed in a number of institutions across Montreal, creating challenges for the processes of collaborative research, joint supervision and scientific immersion. The purpose of our research project is to propose new distributed research and supervision practices supported by ICTs. In order to do this, we are designing a model of technological appropriation, taking into account the ongoing adaptation of the technologies and the evolution of the researchers' and students' practices. Collaborative working sessions are being observed in order to identify the pattern of the scientific community's activity. This will lead to the identification of actions and operations which should be supported by technologies and contribute to the development of scenarios which propose new practices of distributed collaborative research activity.

Keywords: distributed research practices; scientific community

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Lysanne Lessard, France Henri, Nicola Hagemeister, Amaury Daele. New Distributed Research Practices and Scientific Immersion of Graduate Students with the Support of Technologies: The Case of Mentor. E-Learn - World Conference of E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education, 2007, Québec, Canada. pp.7219-7224. ⟨hal-00257166⟩