Structured contextual forum: a study for e-learning

  • Authors:
  • Sébastien George

  • Affiliations:
  • ICTT INSA Lyon

  • Venue:
  • IHM 2003 Proceedings of the 15th French-speaking conference on human-computer interaction on 15eme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

All distance working or learning environments provide communication tools. However, these communication tools are unlinked to users' activities. This separation does not encourage users to discuss the activities they carry out and to question each other about the difficulties they experience. In a distance learning context, providing classical communication tools is not sufficient to create true interactions between learners and to encourage collective knowledge building. Our research work aims at providing each user with a contextual and partial view of a particular forum which contains discussions related to the activity being carried out by this user. The results of this work are a model of contextual forum and a computer tool based on this model that is called CONFOR (CONtextual FORum).