Papers related to the TECFA SEED Research and Catalog

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This page mostly holds pointers to our documents that deal with our interest in community, content and collaboration management systems (C3MS) in education (in particular for supporting socio-constructivist learning scenarios). It's quick and dirty and will remain so until one day we invest into a real documentation server...
Attention: Il s'agit d'un espace provisoire. L'URL va rester, mais l'information risque d'être organisé différemment.

For the moment you can just download papers in PDF format or look at an BETA version of the catalog. Please note that some of these are REAL working papers, i.e. full of good, but unfinished thoughts :) Also note that some papers below are made from MS Word, therefore PDF may be fragile.

• Daniel Schneider, Cathérine Frété, Vivian Synteta (2002) Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems: socio-constructivist scenarios for the masses? Short Paper presented at Ed Media 2002 (The slides for the talk and the longer accepted draft are also available)
• Daniel Schneider, Paraskevi Synteta, Catherine Frété (2002) Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems in Education: A new chance for socio-constructivist scenarios?. 3rd Congress on Information and Communication Technologies in Education Rhodes, September 26th-29th 2002. Introduces our current ideas. Slides of the talk are also available
• Conception et implémentation de scénarios pédagogiques riches avec des portails communautaires, Papier présenté au "second colloque de Guéret, Les communautés virtuelles éducatives, Juin 2003 (version provisoire, à refaire pour les actes)
• Daniel Schneider with Paraskevi Synteta, Catherine Frété, Fabien Girardin, Stéphane Morand (2003) Conception and implementation of rich pedagogical scenarios through collaborative portal sites: clear focus and fuzzy edges. ICOOL International Conference on Open and Online Learning, December 7-13, 2003, University of Mauritius. Slides of the talk are also available. [A shorter preprint of book chapter is: Conception and implementation of rich pedagogical scenarios through collaborative portal sites]
• (WORD file !). Student-centered learning environments, two approaches: E-PBL and TSS Indirectly sponsored by the SEED project. Barbara class and Paraskevi SYNTETA refer in their PhDs-related paper to a common technical Framework and philosophy.
• Barbara Class & Daniel Schneider, Tutorat, socio-constructivisme et capitalisation des connaissances dans un portail communautaire utilisé en éducation à distance, Colloque sur "L'industrialisation du tutorat en formation à distance" co-organisé par L'Ecole d'Ingénierie de la Formation A Distance du CNED et la revue Distances & Savoirs en collaboration avec l'Ecole Supérieure de l'Education Nationale, Decembre 2004.

• Schneider, Daniel, K. "Learning Together Through Collaborative Portal Sites", in Mario Tokoro and Luc Steels (eds.) The Future of Learning II, Sharing representations and Flow in Collaborative Learning Environments, IOS Press, 2004. Here is an early draft (9/2003) transformed into a working paper: Conception and implementation of rich pedagogical scenarios through collaborative portals sites (316 K e-book quality PDF). The book chapter I produced is much shorter (about 25 pages, and can't be shown here for copyright reasons).
• Schneider, D. "Gestaltung kollektiver und kooperativer Lernumgebungen" in Euler & Seufert (eds.), E-Learning in Hochschulen und Bildungszentren. Gestaltungshinweise für pädagogische Innovationen, Oldenbourg, (2005). Hier ist eine fast endgültige Version
• Daniel Schneider & Paraskevi Synteta (2005). Conception and implementation of rich pedagogical scenarios through collaborative portal sites, in Senteni,A. Taurisson,A. Innovative Learning & Knowledge Communities / les communautés virtuelles: apprendre, innover et travailler ensemble", ICOOL 2003 & Colloque de Guéret 2003 selected papers, a University of Mauritius publication, under the auspices of the UNESCO, ISBN-99903-73-19-1. Note: This is the only text in correct English, but it's shorter than some electronically published conference papers ...

Associated PHD projects (more or less, some use the global framework, some the technology, others just some core ideas).

• You can consult Paraskevi (Vivian) Synteta's PHD project and publications which are related to this project.
• Stéphane Lattion: enquiry-based learning (research plan under preparation)
• Barbara Class: "Exploration d'une structure de support tutorale dans un environnement d'apprentissage centré sur l'apprenant" (soutenance en 2006, papier disponibles auprès de l'auteure)
• Dolize Sidambarompoullé: Sujet = "Alternance et technologies de support à la formation des travailleurs sociaux à l'IRTS de La Réunion" (working title, soutenance en nov 2005)

Associated Master Thesis (All three did or will program prototypical PostNuke modules that implement at least part of a problem)

• Stéphane Lattion's "enquiry-based learning" (2004)
• Dorel Gorga: "Web Intelligent Emotion" (July 2005)
• Jessica Claude: "Experience Sampling" (Fall 2005)

Workshops and training courses:

• Workshop on Socio-Constructivist Scenarios With The Internet For Secondary And Higher Education ICNEE 03, May 28, 2003) (Portal page). See also Workshop On Socio-Constructivist Scenarios With The Internet For Secondary And Higher Education, Workshop description (PDF format), ICNEE03, Lucerne, May 2003
• Atelier Webmaster de site pédagogique: portails communautaires (edition Juin 2003). Commercial training course, but offered for free to some of our SEED partners.

Talks (conferences or informal) without papers:

• Portails @ TECFA: Bilan et perspectives, exposé dans le cadre de la formation "F3Mitic", Genève, 2 mai 2003 (270K, PDF)
• New technologies for new practises in methodology teaching ?, Workshop talk, Colloque "Relier et valoriser les données", Berne May 9, 2003. (750K, PDF)
• Tools for collective learning in higher education, Flow, Creativity And Learning, "Future of Learning" Workshop sponsored by Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Sevilla, April 28-30 2003 (1MB ! , PDF). A paper related to this talk is published in a reader at IOS Press
• Socio-constructivist scenarios with Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems, "Methods and tools for distributed learning - Quality and standardizations seminar", IT-University, Göteborg March 2003 (212K, PDF)
• Scénarios pédagogiques socio-constructivistes avec des portails communautaires, Tunis, 31 Avril 2003 (same talk as above en français, 212K, PDF)
• Educational technologies: ICT across the curriculum. December 2003, ICOOL 2003 talk to a teachers audience.
• Conception et implémentation de scénarios pédagogiques riches avec des portails communautaires, 26 May 2004, exposé invité au Laboratoire Trigone, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille.
• Conception and implementation of rich pedagogical scenarios through collaborative portals, invited talk, University of Mauritius, June 22 2004. (a very similar one in french is below)
• Pédagogie active: de la théorie à la pratique - Conception et implémentation de scénarios pédagogiques riches avec des portails communautaires, 9 juillet 2004, exposé invité au séminaire TICE "La pédagogie en question(s)", ISARA-Lyon.
• Kollaborative Webportale in der projektorientierten Ausbildung, Vortrag an der Learntec 2005, Karlsruhe, 16 Februar 2005. Invited talk similar to the 2-3 talks just above, but in German.

Teaching: See portal and pedagogy related modules in TIE slides.

Working Papers about simple socio-constructivist learning activities (conceptual and technical). They represent a first attempt for producing a "cookbook". We plan to make this more operational for teachers by fall 2002:

• Activity Design : a catalogue of socio-constructivist learning activities. This catalog lists & describes generic socio-constructivist learning activities that could be implemented in various educational contexts.
• Un catalogue d'activités d'apprentissage socio-constructiviste (version française)
• Activity software: C3MS bricks for socio-constructivist scenarios This is a catalog that describes interesting elements of C3MS systems and points out potential usefulness as bricks for educational scenarios

• A framework for authoring CSCL scenarios

More general (informal) papers, slides, links, etc:

• Portails communautaires dans l'éducation: stratégies de dévelopement, TECFA Brown Bag seminar talk, 16 dec 2002
• Portals Pointers @ TECFA
• TECFA::SEED Project::Working Paper 2 - Version 2(draft) Portal technology for learning communities (PDF)
• Portails d'information et de communication: vers les C3MS [HTMLized Slides] - PDF Version (better)
• Le rôle de l'Internet dans la formation [HTMLized Slides], a "global picture" talk in french - PDF Version

The problem we try to address so far in this research:

While one can observe a boom of interest for e-learning in the last 2-3 years, current e-learning systems rather focus on content delivery, as opposed to supporting students to solve more complex and open-ended tasks. We are convinced by the effectiveness of socio-constructivist pedagogies in education and struck by the apparent lack of widely deployed supporting tools. We would like to argue that a large number of rich educational scenarios can be supported at reasonable cost by the emerging brand of modular Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems (C3MS).