What are my research questions? What`s a hybrid learning

What are my research questions? What`s a hybrid learning

How do students interact to learn in university hybrid systems?
Nathalie Deschryver
TECFA – FPSE, University of Geneva, Acacias 54, CH-1227 Carouge
What’s a hybrid learning system at the
university ?
How do I try to answer my questions?
Traditional Higher Education
Monographic and longitudinal methodology
Interviews
+ blogs
ICT Learning
environments
Individual variables
Distance
Education
Learning experience
Hybrid learning system
Learner-centered
Individualization
(flexibility, project, negotiated « journey »,
self-directed learning)
Efficient learning
(activity, collaboration, mutualisation)
Hybrid learning
system
A central question :
“Please describe
a situation in which
you have the feeling
to have learnt.
In which context,
with whom, in which
circumstances?
Documents
+ interviews
Fig. 1 – Framework for the context of the research
Inductive, descriptive and exploratory approach
(category and structural analysis)
What are my research questions?
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Hypothesis about the conditions of effectiveness
when managing social interactions
in a hybrid learning system
How do students in these hybrid learning systems negotiate
individualization and social interaction (collaboration, mutualisation) in
their learning experience (situations which make sense for
students as regards learning – constructivist perspective) ?
What are the privileged social interactions : interactions related to
cognitive or emotional support; distance/face to face ; interactions with
trainers, peers, experts, other people; formal/informal interactions ?
Can these modes of interaction be understood in relation to individual
variables like motivation, previous experience of learning, social
constraints/resources or student perception of the training system ?
Fig. 3 – Methodology
First results
Laura case
• Solitary experience of learning towards a more interacted one
Individual variables
Learning experience
Previous learning
experience
What ? (product)
• Interactions lived progressively as
• constraints in « no-learning » situations
• cognitive support with
« out-context of the system » interactors
• affective support with peers
• Quantitative (more knowledge)
Motivation
• In/extrinsic
• Personal project
Social factors (constraints
/resources)
Student perception
• Pedagogical scenario
• Constraints/Resources
Hybrid learning system
Individualization
Individual/collective tasks
Articulation
facetoface/distance
Support for interactions in
the technological
environment
• Qualitative (construction of
sense)
• Institutional (getting marks)
• Affective
Distance-online situation
Face/face situation
•Link with personal project of the student (individual variable) :
•Project centered on collaborative learning
Questions
• What about the evolution of the experience of learning by other students?
• What about the link with the personal project?
• Are face/face interactions more privileged than online ones for other
students?
How? (process)
• Cognitive
• Affective
• Meta-cognitive
Which conditions ? (privileged
interactions)
• Support : cognitive, affective,
meta-cognitive
• « Interactor » : peers, trainer,
community, expert, other
Publications
Charlier B., Deschryver N.et Peraya D. (2005) Apprendre en présence et à distance. A la recherche des
effets des dispositifs hybrides, REF05.
Charlier, B., Deschryver, N. et Peraya, D. (2004).Articuler présence et distance, une autre manière de
penser l'apprentissage universitaire. 21e congrès de l'AIPU, Association Internationale de Pédagogie
Universitaire., Marrakech (3 au 7 mai).
Deschryver, N. (2004). Interaction sociale et apprentissage en formation hybride – Projet de thèse.
Faculté de Psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation, Tecfa. Genève, Université de Genève.
• Face to face / distance
• Formal /informal
For further information
Please contact [email protected].
For more information on this and related projects : http://tecfa.unige.ch
Fig. 2 – Conceptual framework
The PDF-version of the poster : http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/deschryv/doc/earli05_poster.pdf
Earli 11th Biennial Conference – Jure Pre-Conference – Cyprus – August 2005