Pan-Quebec Survey of the Practices, Competencies, Attitudes, Benefits and Challenges Inherent in the Use of ICTs by 25,561 Post-Secondary Students

Normand Roy; Bruno Poellhuber

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1902–1911

The study’s objectives are to determine practices, competencies, attitudes, benefits and challenges inherent in the use of ICTs. There are computers in nearly every Canadian household and school. Moreover, one-third of Internet-connected households...

A Systematic Comparative Analysis of MOOC Participant Profiles

Bruno Poellhuber; Normand Roy; Ibtihel Bouchoucha

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 1865–1872

In spite doubts about the future of MOOCs, they still continue to develop in many parts of the world. The openness of MOOCs draws a very diverse clientele. In this study, we wanted to construct MOOC user profiles based on their behaviour in the open-...

Topics: Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

Descriptive analysis of e-textbook multimedia and interaction

Normand Roy; Yannick Beauchamp; Priscilla Boyer

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 65–73

Even if we expect much more from e-textbooks, students and schools are dependant of publishers who are responsible to develop and offer the material. In this situation, it is not clear how decisions are taken: for cost reasons, for editorial reasons,...

Topics: E-publishing/digital libraries, Learner-centered, and self-directed learning

Understanding Participant’s Behaviour in Massively Open Online Courses

Bruno Poellhuber; Normand Roy; Ibtihel Bouchoucha

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 20, No. 1 (Feb 28, 2019)

As the offer of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) continues to grow around the world, a great deal of MOOC research has focused on their low success rates and used indicators that might be more appropriate for traditional degree-seeking students...

Language: English

The Digital Natives in Education: Issues and Practices

Normand Roy; Alexandre Gareau; Bruno Poellhuber

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 44, No. 1 (May 08, 2018)

Although widely discussed in the public media, there is currently a debate about the characteristics of generations in society (C, X, Y, Z), particularly with regard to their technological habits. Based on 24, 502 college students, this study...

Language: English Translations: English, français, langue française/French

Case study of a MOOC initiative in a small school: issues and benefits

Normand Roy; Marc Bachand; Nicolas Boivin

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 1586–1592

Even as the MOOC is trending world-wide, many are wondering about the implications for universities and for the financial production model (Charlier, 2014; Mazoue, 2013). This is even truer for smaller universities, where the cost of one online...

Topics: E-Learning Trends and Innovations (social learning, mobile, augmented etc.), Instructional Design

Quality Assessments of MOOCs From the Student’s Point-of-view: Towards a Semi-Automated Student’s Feedback Analysis Method Adapted to the Needs of Educational Design

Pierre-Olivier Garand; Normand Roy; Bruno Poellhuber

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 490–498

Abstract: Over the last decade, the rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has led new players to join this new way of thinking about teaching and learning. The multiplication of courses offered, the broad spectrum of disciplines they now cover,...

Topics: MOOC’s, Open Teaching, and Open Educational Resources, Evaluating for quality improvement

From learning with MOOCs to Using Twitter for Professional Development:Revisiting major issues in information technology and education in Canada

Thierry Karsenti; Bruno Poellhuber; Martine Mottet; Pascal Grégoire; Glorya Pellerin; Normand Roy; Julien Bugmann; Stephanie Simard

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1650–1654

From re-examining the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework in light of the recent evolution of the PCK model to learning with MOOCs or using Twitter for professional development, this symposium will focus on various aspects of...

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

From learning with MOOCs to Using Twitter for Professional Development:Revisiting major issues in information technology and education in Canada

Thierry Karsenti; Bruno Poellhuber; Martine Mottet; Pascal Grégoire; Glorya Pellerin; Normand Roy; Julien Bugmann; Stephanie Simard

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1644–1649

From re-examining the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework in light of the recent evolution of the PCK model to learning with MOOCs or using Twitter for professional development, this symposium will focus on various aspects of...

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies