Mechanisms of influence: understanding the power of influencers
Influencers shape opinions and behavior through storytelling, emotions and bias. This article explores their techniques, psychological insights and abuses, such as virtual influencers. Faced with this power, educators can teach critical thinking, draw on these methods to captivate and equip young people against manipulation, while recognizing the possible positive effect of influence.
Good online courses help students succeed. But what helps them?
You can't expect everything from a course. Its objectives must be clear and its pedagogy must adhere to them, but other conditions are also necessary for an online course to promote student success. What 28,000 online students can teach us. The conditions for success can also be put in place around an online course.
Autonomy as a professional skill: normative fiction or observable reality?
Autonomy, omnipresent in reference frameworks, remains rarely defined and difficult to teach and assess. This article shows that autonomy is not so much an individual skill as a situated ability, built on interdependence and environments equipped, in particular, with AI. It proposes to make it a genuine learning object, explicit, progressive and critical.
Proposal of virtual learning activities / pedagogical activities
Grid of activities to offer in a class. Are you tired of doing the same things over and over again?
Collective intelligence dialogue: Native American wisdom
In search of the ancestral practices of dialogue circles