Publications associées à Asynchronous learning

Evaluation of teachers’ orchestration tools usage in robotic classrooms

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Aditi Kothiyal, Sina Shahmoradi

Teachers’ self-efficacy in managing classrooms is an important consideration when it comes to bringing educational robots to classrooms. Orchestration tools support teachers by providing awareness indicators of students’ progress as well as levers to contr ...

2023

Understanding teacher design practices for digital inquiry-based science learning: the case of Go-Lab

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Designing and implementing online or digital learning material is a demanding task for teachers. This is even more the case when this material is used for more engaged forms of learning, such as inquiry learning. In this article, we give an informed accoun ...

2021

Private and Secure Distributed Learning

Georgios Damaskinos

The ever-growing number of edge devices (e.g., smartphones) and the exploding volume of sensitive data they produce, call for distributed machine learning techniques that are privacy-preserving. Given the increasing computing capabilities of modern edge de ...

EPFL2020

Cloud Ecosystem for Supporting Inquiry Learning with Online Labs: Creation, Personalization, and Exploitation

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

To effectively and efficiently implement blended science and technology education, teachers should be able to find educational resources that suit their need, fit with their curricula, and that can be easily exploited in their classroom. The European Union ...

Ieee2017

Beyond ePortfolios: Creating, Exploiting, and Archiving Activity Traces, Learning Outcomes, and Learning Analytics as Personal Shareable Online Spaces

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

The concept of an ePortfolio was introduced in 1999 as an electronic learning record and further developed to overcome the limitation of learning management systems lacking persistent storage for learning artifacts. Nowadays, educational platforms have evo ...

IEEE2017

Contextual Learning Analytics Apps to Create Awareness in Blended Inquiry Learning

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, David Sandoz

Blended inquiry learning, where students for example use online labs to perform experiments, is considered a promising approach to increase the skills and interest of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains. For teachers to pr ...

2015

Personal Learning with Social Media : Reputation, Privacy and Identity Perspectives

Na Li

Social media platforms are increasingly used in recent years to support learning activities, especially for the construction of activity- and learner-centric personal learning environments (PLEs). This thesis investigates the solutions to four essential de ...

EPFL2015

The impact of study load on the dynamics of longitudinal email communications among students

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

With the advent of information technology, emails have gained wide acceptability among students as an asynchronous communication tool. According to the current pedagogy literature the overall trend of the use of email communication by university students h ...

Elsevier2014

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC

Frédéric Kaplan, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

Over the last two years, Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs) have been unexpectedly successful in convincing large number of students to pursue online courses in a variety of domains. Contrary to the "learn anytime anywhere" moto, this new generation of co ...

2014

MOOC Learning in Spontaneous Study Groups: Does Synchronously Watching Videos Make a Difference?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Guillaume Zufferey, Nan Li, Himanshu Verma, Afroditi Skevi

Study groups are common approaches for students to study together at schools. However, little is known about how this approach is suited to MOOC based learning, where learners watch and discuss MOOC lecture videos in a collaborative manner. Watching MOOCs ...

P.A.U. Education2014