Distance education engineering. Interactive method and virtual pedagogy for French learners

Olivier Marty (1)

1 CRF - Centre de recherche sur la formation

A field description of training engineers' work in distance education allows us to test the interaction paradigm in current social realities. The training engineer's work is about tuning a software to provide undergraduate students with a virtual learning method. It therefore appears to confirm the interaction paradigm : learning is a dynamic of human actions and software reactions, similar to a serious game in a virtual world. But the course's final assessment through a case study reveals the limits of the interaction paradigm. This complex problem, based on real-life situations, is rather seen as a "mental experience" by the very professionals working in this educational institution. We therefore put aside the interaction paradigm to take into account cognitive realities stressed by the training engineers' pedagogical activity.

Mots clés: Virtual method; Experience; Pedagogy; Training engineer; Interaction paradigm

Domaines: Education

Olivier Marty. Distance education engineering. Interactive method and virtual pedagogy for French learners. 2012. ⟨halshs-00776581⟩