L'éducation est-elle un produit marchand ou, mieux, l'éducation est-elle un service marchand ? Cette question est analysée par Pierre Moeglin et Gaëtan Tremblay dans un article de la dernière livraison de Distance et savoir. La question est d'importance d'une part parce que le discours dominant tendrait à nous faire penser que la réponse est positive, d'autre part parce que les appels d'offre auxquels nous répondons semblent penser que la réponse est positive. En particulier, quiconque a été confronté aux évaluations par la commission européenne sait que la question économique est des plus sensibles...
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Moher's team, the inventor of embedded phenomena, has designed a new generation of learning space. A space which blows the boundaries of the screen, and even of the internet: Wallcology. The quality of the technological implementation and the precise reporting of the first case studies create the context to raise very interesting question about authenticity and the design of learning situations.
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An embedded phenomenon is the emergent property of the behaviours of a set of "distributed media located around the classroom representing 'portals' into [the] phenomenon depicting local state information corresponding to [its mapping onto the physical space of the classroom]." The space of the class becomes the interface with the model which has been implemented; but it is more than that...
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As is often the case, the emergence of a new advance on the technology front stimulates a new exploration on the front of educational technology. The recently edited book “Towards the learning GRID” is a good occasion to learn where we are with GRID technology and what is the vision of its potential for TEL.
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