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From the year 2001 till
2004, the Swiss Virtual Campus (SVC) granted TECFA, the Instruction
Technology unit of the University of Geneva, a mandate to support
and evaluate pedagogical innovations of the SVC projects homed
at a French speaking university. We adopted a method that linked
and support each of the three dimensions of the mandate, namely:
to support the projects in the integration of pedagogical innovations;
to identify the innovative practices in progress and influential
factors; to evaluate the pedagogical aspects of the courses
that have been developed. This action-research that we called
«evaluation-formation» research, made it possible
at the same time to support the pedagogical development of the
products and the enrichment of the culture of the actors having
taken part in the activities. It builds on a vision of evaluation
where actors are fully involved throughout the whole process
of formative evaluation and the organization of instructional
activities meant to support their development. Our analyses
of the mandate’s activities and interactions with the
projects have lead to a systemic model articulating the indicators
of pedagogical innovation, spaces of integration within the
teaching device and the characteristics of the actors. We will
end this contribution by presenting the model and then will
finally address further applications and developments. |
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