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A presentation of evaluative
research, this article discusses the quality of pedagogical
guidance carried out for eLearning course projects by the Centre
«Nouvelles Technologies et Enseignement» at Fribourg.
This guidance is based on a continuous process of formative
evaluation done with the students and teachers involved in the
development of eLearning courses. By stimulating participation
of the projects’ actors, the evaluation aims to improve
the didactical quality of the resulting courses. The main tools
of this stimulation are questionnaires about the students’
perceptions of eLearning and discussions with the teachers about
their courses. We first show the improvements made possible
through the process of guidance used at the University of Fribourg
during the period 2000-2003 with three projects of the national
program Swiss Virtual Campus: Antiquit@as (Ancient History,
first and second year students), «A Web-based Training
in Embryology» (Medicine, first and second year students)
and «European Law Online» (European Law, third and
fourth year students). Then we discuss the possible improvements
of the continuous process of formative evaluation itself. |
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