TECFA

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• TECFA
• Research and Teaching unit in
• Educational and Learning technologies

May 2006
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PSYCHOLOGY
EDUCATION
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
COMMUNICATION
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Staff
Mireille BETRANCOURT Daniel PERAYA Daniel K.
SCHNEIDER Nicolas SZILAS
IS Stéphane MORAND Secr Véronique MOREAU
François LOMBARD Laurent DUBOIS
PhD. Students
Martin Acosta, Barbara Class, Nathalie
Deschryver, Laurence Gagnière, Luis Gonzalez,
Stéphane Lattion, François Lombard, Cyril
Rebetez, Vivian P. Synteta.
Collaborators and assistants
CLAUDE Jessica, DEPOVER Christian, DIEGO
Veronica, FRETE Catherine, LATTION Stéphane,
RICHLE Urs.
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Bachelor studies (Psycho and Education)
Computer-based learning environments
Mediated communication and learning
Human-Computer Interaction
Integrating technologies in the classroom
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MALTT MAster in Learning and Teaching
Technologies
Blended education
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Main research topics
Mediated Communication and distance education
Cognitive and metacognitive tools for learning
Innovative Information and Communication Systems
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Mediated Communication and distance education
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Cognitive and metacognive tools for learning
How do we process information from multimedia,
hypermedia, collaborative and augmented
environements?
How to design more effective computer supported
learning environment ?
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Learning collaboratively from multimedia documents
CLEAP Project Swiss Science foundation grant in
collaboration with Pierre Dillenbourg at EPFL
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Learning collaboratively from multimedia
documents (2)

• Interaction between situation and snapshots
  F(1 152)  6.630 plt.05

Single
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Split interaction effect?
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Collaborative argumentation
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Promoting metacognitive activities through
allo-confrontation
Object of the confrontation self or peers
activity Type of traces process or
product Structuration of the confrontation Presenc
e or absence of the peer
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Innovative Information and Communication systems
Design of  intelligent learning  environments
Learning and practice community portals
Ex TECFASEED project (Daniel Schneider)
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Community portals
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Community portals
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Mirroring and Metacognitive tools
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Writing by learning in initial vocational
training
Dual-T Project OFFT grant for a leading house
and 4 research project in collaboration with
Pierre Dillenbourg at EPFL and Jean-Luc Gurtner
at University of Fribourg.
Technologies can promote integration between the
school and the workplace.

• web-based journal to develop writing-by-learning
  scenarios in project-based approach
• Facilitated interaction between tutors and
  tutees through the use of instant messages
• Mobile and embedded technologies

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