A Help Management System to Support Peer Instruction in Remote Laboratories

Rémi Venant (1) , Philippe Vidal (1) , Julien Broisin (1, 2, 3)

1 IRIT-SIERA - Service IntEgration and netwoRk Administration
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
3 IRIT-TALENT - Teaching And Learning Enhanced by Technologies

Help between peers, intended to positively influence learning, appears as a suitable activity for inquiry learning. While several studies reveal evidence that effective help-seeking and help-giving behaviors can improve learning, virtual and remote laboratories do not provide sufficient support to enable these social interactions. Based on a set of criteria defined from existing literature, we designed a management system and implemented it in Lab4CE, a remote laboratory environment for Computer Education. The first results of two experimentations reveal that learners do not tend to help each other spontaneously, while the presence of a teacher increases self-confidence on help given.

Mots clés: Help-giving; Peer instruction; Help-seeking; User interactions; Virtual and remote laboratories

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education

Rémi Venant, Philippe Vidal, Julien Broisin. A Help Management System to Support Peer Instruction in Remote Laboratories. 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2017), Jul 2017, Timisoara, Romania. pp.430-432. ⟨hal-01913998⟩