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Education, éducation and bildung... far out of reach
[About TEL in general, Thesaurus]

About 10 years ago, John Self wrote "If a field is to call itself ‘AI in Education’, then it seems necessary for it to say what it considers ‘education’ to be. However, despite its name, AI-ED has never been concerned with education in its broad sense but only with the specific issue of learning." Reading again the introduction of his essay on "Computational mathetics", I thought that this is an issue worth to consider again as we are about to consider our metadata from an international perspective.
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Thursday 4th, January 2007 (21:07) - comments (0) - permanent link


"Learning", not so far from teaching
[About TEL in general, Thesaurus]

We have all experienced difficulties in translating our papers and talks into English, and some of our English colleagues have taken up the same challenge when preparing their communication in an other language. The difficulty is classical: translation is not a mere transduction, words from two different languages rarely match. Interestingly, this problem imposes itself with the more important word on our domain: Learning...
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Saturday 18th, November 2006 (22:00) - comments (0) - permanent link


Is learning GRID more than distributed resources?
[Technology]

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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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Sunday 15th, October 2006 (18:41) - comments (1) - permanent link


Campus numériques : une question de territoires ?
[French corner]

L’introduction de moyens d’enseignement ouverts, interactifs, personnalisés provoque l’émergence d’une organisation taylorienne de l’enseignement et une bureaucratisation accrue. De nouveaux métiers apparaissent, d’anciens métiers se transforment dans un mouvement qui accroit le sentiment du territoire et finalement parait fragiliser les protagonistes de l’innovation
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Monday 28th, August 2006 (12:02) - comments (0) - permanent link


One postulate, three refutations: a discussion on CSCL design
[Learning]

The postulate: “the more a system would be able to reproduce face-to-face interaction features, the better it would be?”. The refutations: the commercial failure of WAP compared to the great success of SMS communication, the limitation of the added value of video communication...
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Tuesday 22nd, August 2006 (13:53) - comments (2) - permanent link


Le savant et l’ingénieur …
[French corner]

« Et quand le savant a rencontré l’ingénieur, la mécanique analytique le chemin de fer, vers 1840, la croyance a prouvé son pouvoir, et put se prendre pour un savoir. » (Régis Debray)
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Wednesday 16th, August 2006 (12:56) - comments (0) - permanent link


Scripts, games and situations
[Learning]

A chapter of the recently issued book entitled “Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication” stimulated my curiosity by suggesting that if social CSCL scripts seems to have a positive effect, it is not the case for epistemic scripts which have “no or negative effects on learning outcomes”. It suggested to me to consider the case from an other angle, let see...
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Friday 28th, July 2006 (17:32) - comments (1) - permanent link


La fidélité n'est pas le problème.
[French corner]

Juillet 2006, La Grande Motte, les vacances. La question de la « fidélité » préoccupe peut être quelques estivants, mais à coup sûr elle occupe les chercheurs réunis là pour une école thématique CNRS sur le thème des simulations et de l'apprentissage. La question de la fidélité renvoie à la fois à un projet technologique qui intègre informatique et divers secteurs de l’ingénierie pour la réalisation d’espaces physiques permettant de reproduire de façon vivante une situation de travail, et à un désir d’affranchissement des barrières entre une réalité que l’on invoque et sa représentation. Si les technologies progressent, en revanche la frustration est toujours grande de voir nos désirs d’interchangeabilité du réel et du virtuel nous échapper. La faute en revient probablement à notre ignorance : la fidélité est hors de portée
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Friday 21st, July 2006 (16:48) - comments (0) - permanent link


Continuity, a political condition for sustainability
[About TEL in general]

What do you think are the main challenges for the European Commissions TEL (technology-enhanced learning) research policy, and how do you see Kaleidoscope’s role in this context?" Asked me Beate Kleessen.
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Friday 30th, June 2006 (19:21) - comments (0) - permanent link


Une vieille idée
[French corner]

Pour lancer cette section francophone de mon blog Kaleidoscope, faute de trouver le temps d'un texte nouveau (même court), je reviens sur une question sensible: la construction d'une plate-forme pour la recherche. Idée que Trigone a contribué à faire avancer, mais dont la réalisation est trop lente faute de conviction et de moyens de la communauté. Pourtant...
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posted by Nicolas Balacheff on Thursday 11th, May 2006 (22:34) - comments (0) - permanent link