Proceedings of the 10th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2017, Paris, France, June 20-23, 2017International audienceThis paper presents a research project in science education that is positioned at the intersection of computer science and context in learning. The main objective is to improve learning process by creating a software tool that participates, from the inception to the achievement, in the design of leaning scenarios, based on context effects, and, to show that context effects' learning is an efficient method in the development of student's knowledge regarding a concept. The software will compute differences between two – or more – external contexts based on specific parameters, related to the phenomenon or object that students are expected to study. The elaboration of the calculator (" the MazCalc ") is conducted using the design based research theory, meaning that several iterations of learning field experiments are conducted in order to collect relevant data which are used for the tool creation. In this paper, the design of the scenario involves students from North America and from the French West Indies and the concept studied is about geothermal energy. The instantiation of the context calculator is made with the geothermal object of study, and the differences are computed in the calculator between the two contexts mentioned. This example makes possible to validate the link between context effects predicted and observed, and also to study the impact of external context on the learning process. This study has been conducted thanks to the GEOTREF project support
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This paper describes the advances in the TEEC project (Technologies Éducatives pour l'Enseignement en Contexte, in English: Educational technologies for teaching in context). This multidisciplinary project is at the intersection between context in learning and educational technologies. It aims at developing and experimenting a context effects-based pedagogical model involving learners and teachers from multiple geographical contexts, collaborating on common subjects with local specificities. The project also has for objective the development of digital tools to assist and participate in the elaboration of the pedagogical projects such as a context modeller and calculator (Mazcalc), an authoring system for learning scenarios and a context aware intelligent tutoring system. The elaboration and the analyses of experiments, as well as the design and the development of tools include research in multiple fields such as Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Artificial intelligence, Instructional Design, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Science Education and Contextualization. Finally, the research activity relies on the Design Based Research methodology (DBR) that allows the articulation of the project between all those disciplines and stakeholders. RÉSUMÉ. Ce document décrit les avancées du projet TEEC (Technologies Éducatives pour l'Enseignement en Contexte). Ce projet multidisciplinaire est né d'une rencontre entre la didactique contextuelle et les technologies éducatives. Il vise à développer et à expérimenter un modèle pédagogique basé sur les effets de contextes, impliquant des apprenants et des enseignants de contextes géographiques multiples, collaborant sur des sujets communs mais ayant des spécificités locales. Le projet a également pour objectif le développement d'outils numériques pour assister et participer à l'élaboration des projets pédagogiques tels qu'un modélisateur-calculateur de contexte (Mazcalc), un système de création de scénarios d'apprentissage et un système de tutorat intelligent sensible au contexte. L'élaboration et l'analyse d'expérimentations, ainsi que la conception et le développement d'outils incluent des travaux de recherche dans de multiples domaines tels que l'apprentissage collaboratif assisté par ordinateur, l'intelligence artificielle, la conception pédagogique, les systèmes de tutorat intelligents, l'enseignement des sciences et la contextualisation. Enfin, l'activité de recherche repose sur la méthodologie Design-Based Research (DBR) qui permet l'articulation du projet entre toutes ces disciplines et acteurs.
The inclusion of context in education is important to allow teachers and students to discover the diversity, the importance and the role of context in the teaching and learning. To do so, a pedagogical model based on context effects and called the 'Clash model' has been developed and experimented. To facilitate experimental and research activity around this model, several numeric tools are needed. The Mazcalc (Context gap calculator), is a numeric tool that can model a studied object in multiple distinct geographical contexts and calculate gaps between the contexts of the given object according to several parameters and themes. The objective is to use this calculation to provide information about the differences and similarities between the two contextual instantiations of the studied object. The Mazcalc will then communicate with a CEM (Context Effect Manager) that will provide recommendations about the relevance of the setting up of a context sensitive and collaborative pedagogical experiment between the two contexts. The Mazcalc has already been developed and this paper focuses on the work in progress regarding the advances of the TEEC project1, which concerns the creation of the CEM and the authoring system. RÉSUMÉ. L'intégration du contexte dans l'éducation est importante pour permettre aux enseignants et aux étudiants de découvrir la diversité, l'importance et le rôle du contexte dans l'enseignement et l'apprentissage. Pour ce faire, un modèle pédagogique basé sur les effets de contexte et appelé le 'modèle Clash' a été développé et expérimenté. Pour faciliter les activités de recherche et les expérimentations autour de ce modèle, plusieurs outils numériques sont nécessaires. Le Mazcalc (calculateur de contexte) est un outil numérique qui permet de modéliser un objet étudié dans plusieurs contextes géographiques distincts et de calculer les écarts entre les contextes de l'objet en fonction de plusieurs paramètres et thèmes. L'objectif est d'utiliser ce calcul pour fournir des informations sur les différences et les similitudes entre les deux instanciations contextuelles de l'objet d'étude. Le Mazcalc communiquera ensuite avec un CEM (Gestionnaire d'effet de contextes) qui fournira des informations sur la pertinence de la mise en place d'une expérimentation pédagogique collaborative sensible au contexte impliquant des apprenants des deux contextes modélisés. Le Mazcalc a déjà été développé et cet article se concentre sur les travaux en cours concernant les avancées du projet TEEC1 sur la création du CEM et du système auteur pour assister la scénarisation.
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