Progress in context effect-based education: the TEEC project
Résumé
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.