Collaboration in a Multimedia Laboratory
In France, several networks engaged in the renewal of education and teaching are based upon tools of Information and Communications. With this in mind, the author set up the L.A.M.I.A. laboratory1 in a training college (I.U.F.M.)2 in the North of France.
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Collaboration in a Multimedia Laboratory
Eliane Cousquer U.F.R. de Mathematiques, U.S.T.L.; Laboratoire LAMIA, r.U.F.M., rue Parmentier, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France Email: [email protected]
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Networks in Science Teaching Introduction
In France, several networks engaged in the renewal of education and teaching are based upon tools of Information and Communications. With this in mind, the author set up the L.A.M.I.A.laboratory 1 in a training college (I.U.F.M.) 2 in the North of France. The notion of network is at the core of this paper: firstly, to present RU.C.A.3 and the influence of the work of the author in RU.C.A. on the creation of L.A.M.I.A.; secondly, to explain the quick development of the laboratory, especially in mathematics; lastly, to present the development of collaboration and distributed cognition in the North of France. 7.1.2
La Main Ii La Pate (Hands On Teaching)
Among the educational networks that have been created in France, the best known is "la main Ii la pate". It was initiated by Georges Charpak, Nobel prize winner in physics, for the renovation of science teaching in primary schools, and was the continuation of the trend in renovation launched by Ledermann in the United States. It is led jointly by scientists, researchers at I.N.RP. (the National Institute for Pedagogical Research) and by primary school teachers. A web site 4 presents the experiments carried out in schools, offers an on-line library for primary school teachers and is a means of contact and work with researchers in sciences. In this network, the technology is mainly used as a tool of communications and mutualization. 1
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Laboratoire Multimedia Informatique et Apprentissage, http://www.lille.iufm.fr/labo /prologlabo.html Institut Universitaire de Formation des maitres, (training college) http://www.lille.iufm.fr Reseau Universitaire des Centres d'Autoformation http://www.inrp.fr/lamap
J. Borwein et al. (eds.), Multimedia Tools for Communicating Mathematics © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002
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On-Line University
Several French science universities have cooperated in order to create a set of multimedia products covering the first year curricula. The U.S.T.L. 5 is highly involved in this network, and its multimedia laboratory L.E.M.M. 6 runs this network. The author personally takes part in the production of mathematics unit credits in the L.E.M.M., and she is the head of L.A.M.I.A .. The two laboratories L.E.M.M. and L.A.M.I.A. cooperate. The history of the network of scientific universities and its realization are interesting and important to understand the development of technologies in education in the North of France.
Fig. 7.1. A self training center in U.S.T.L.
History of the Project. An academic science network of self-learning centers, (R.U.C.A.) was set up in 1987. Eleven universities are currently part of this network: Aix-Marseille1, Bordeaux 1, Grenoble 1, Lille 1, Nancy 1, Nice, Paris 6, Paris 7, Paris 11, Toulouse 3, Tours. The R.U.C.A. cen
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