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A Study of Spatial Reasoning Skills in Carpenters’ Training

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Sébastien Cuendet

One difficulty with the Swiss dual system is the gap between the practical work in the company and the theoretical teaching at school. In this article, we examine the case of carpenters. We observe that the school-workplace gap exists and materializes thro ...

2011

Monitoring Collaboration in Flexible and Personal Learning Environments.

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Both virtual and personal learning environments (VLEs and PLEs) are technologies widely used with educational purposes. Moreover, there also exists a pedagogical trend towards the development of high-level competencies, such as the capacity to work collabo ...

2011

Technology for Classroom Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann

We use different criteria to judge teaching methods and learning environments as researchers and teachers. As researchers, we tend to rely on learning gains measured in controlled conditions. As teacher, the skilled management of classroom constraints resu ...

Springer Science+Business Media2010

Tackling Engineering Education Research Challenges: Web 2.0 Social Software for Personal Learning

Denis Gillet

This paper focuses on Engineering Education Research on Technology Enhanced Learning carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and on its current focus on personal and collaborative learning. After some thoughts on the di ...

2010

Enhancement of e-learning in geomatics by the integration of dynamic mathematics' tools

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Arnaud Deshogues

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has introduced a Learning Management System (LMS) based on Moodle. This trend was a source of motivation for our teaching staff who have initiated a project called Exomatic for the enhancement of ...

ISPRS2010

Personal Learning Environments in a Global Higher Engineering Education Web 2.0 Realm

Denis Gillet

This paper presents investigations on formal and informal requirements for personal learning environments taking into account students’ personal and social learning practices. The potential of global Web 2.0 educational service bundles and informal learnin ...

IEEE2010

The 3A interaction model: towards bridging the gap between formal and informal learning

Denis Gillet, Na Li

This paper discusses the adoption of bottom-up social software tools in formal learning environments. This is believed to enhance the learning experience of today’s young generation characterized by being technology savvy and keen on social networking. As ...

IEEE Computer Society2010

Mapping Web Personal Learning Environments

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

A recent trend in education and in web development is to build learning environment on top of web platforms which are carefully designed to host a plurality of software components (sometimes called widgets or plugins) which can be organized or combined (ma ...

2009

Remote lab: online support and awareness analysis

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Peter Scott

This paper presents an initiative for integrating leading edge remote experimentation and synchronous collaboration solutions as a proof of concept to pave the way towards comprehensive learning environments for live interaction, not only between people th ...

The International Federation of Automatic Control2008

Composite Kernel Learning

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is an acknowledged powerful tool for building classifiers, but it lacks flexibility, in the sense that the kernel is chosen prior to learning. Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) enables to learn the kernel, from an ensemble of ...

Omnipress2008