Cette thèse propose de cartographier le parcours de navigation des usagers des EIAH pour le visualiser, visualiser pour interpréter et interpréter pour anticiper. Les profils d'apprentissage ont une influence sur les modes de navigation dans un environnement d'apprentissage en ligne. S’appuyant sur une méthodologie capable de modéliser le parcours de navigation d’un usager et d’anticiper son prochain clic sur une plateforme, notre étude cherche à élargir le champ des connaissances de l'efficacité/performance des styles d'apprentissage. La méthodologie utilisée repose sur l’analyse des traces d'utilisation élaborée à partir de 63 archives logs Web, incluant 4637 lignes de registre et 13 206 possibilités de choix de module. Le travail de recherche s’inscrit dans le cadre d’approches associant sémiologie, des sciences de l’information, psychologie cognitive et sciences de l’éducation. Trois observations ont été menées, générant des informations sur le profil de l’usager, la représentation des parcours et l’impact du style d’apprentissage dans le choix des fonctionnalités de travail offertes disponibles sur la plateforme. Les principaux résultats sont de deux types : d’une part, l’élaboration d’un outil convertissant les traces des fichiers log en parcours de navigation, et d’autre part, la confirmation d’un lien entre style d’apprentissage et mode de navigation. Ce deuxième résultat permet d’élaborer une méthode d’anticipation du nouveau choix de module sur une plateforme numérique de travail. Les applications pratiques visant à rendre exploitables ces traces dans les formations universitaires sont l’élaboration de bilans de qualité (ressources préférées, fonctionnalités moins utilisées) et l’identification des besoins de médiation pédagogique pour la compréhension de la tâche ou du processus (identifié par exemple dans l’insistance sur le module de consignes, le temps investi par un groupe ou par des trajets répétés). Cette thèse s’adresse principalement aux responsables pédagogiques universitaires décideurs de l’intégration des TIC, et par extension, aux étudiants universitaires et aux concepteurs d’outils d’apprentissage. / This thesis presents a methodology capable of modelling the course of educational browsing of an EIAH user to visualise it in order to interpret it and to anticipate. The learning profiles influence browsing styles in e-learning environment. Based on a methodology able to create models of the browsing behaviour of a user and to anticipate the following step on a platform, our study tries to widen the knowledge of the efficiency of different learning styles. The applied methodology is the analysis of the marks left by the user taken from 63 archives of Web logs including 4637 lines of register and 13 206 possible choices of modules. This research study combines theoretical approaches mixing semiology, sciences of information, cognitive psychology and sciences of education. Three observations have been led, giving information on users’ profile, representations of courses and impacts of the mode of learning in the choice of working features offered on the platform.The main contributions are two types: On one hand, the elaboration of a tool converting tracks of files log in signs possible to be visualized as courses of educational browsing. On the other hand, the confirmation of the relationship between ways of learning and styles of browsing giving rise to a method of anticipation of a new choice of module on the digital working platform. The practical applications aim at making exploitable these tracks in university education which can be of use to the elaboration of quality assessments (resources preferred, less used features) and the identification of the needs of educational mediation for clarification of the task or of the process (identified by the emphasis on the module of instructions, on time invested by a group or repeated routes).This thesis addresses mainly persons in charge of integrating ICTS at university level and further, university students and designers of learning tools.

The increasing use of educational softwares in the process of teaching and learning between geographically dispersed citizens in the contemporary society is an emergent concern in the studies of researchers of the area of Education in the field of Distance Education (EaD). Education Online uses the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to operate its processes in order to provide learning through collaborative practices in distance learning courses that want to use a pedagogical architecture in accordance with the teaching digital network technologies and teaching resources in digital format. Thus, this research contributes to the development and/or customization of educational softwares that must consider human factors as a central element. In particular, the Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) used in EaD, because of the difficulties encountered by users in the use of the interfaces educational digital environments. So, the methodology adopted in this research paper is a case study in a qualitative and quantitative standpoint, which has the main objective to suggest recommendations for projects of interfaces centered on the learner to the concepts of Usability Engineering, Human-Computer Interface and Constructivist Pedagogy. The Analyses on the pedagogical architecture of VLE/CESAD/UFS, from the interactions of four groups of students in distance learning course in Bachelor of Public Administration of the Centre of Distance Education of the Federal University of Sergipe in the period 2011.1, showed the results that confirm the learning style of the students as a more human factor to guide the designs of VLE centered in the apprentice. But also to provide synergy between collective intelligence, digital network technologies and learning through collaborative practices. The results also show that it is possible to lead the interface and instructional design of the virtual environment in tune with the style of the students learning to improve the technical and pedagogical usability of digital and educational interfaces. Usability / A crescente utilização de softwares educacionais no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem entre sujeitos geograficamente dispersos na sociedade contemporânea é uma preocupação emergente nos estudos de pesquisadores da área de Educação a Distância (EaD). A Educação Online utiliza as Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) para operacionalizar seus processos, a fim de proporcionar uma aprendizagem através de práticas colaborativas em cursos à distância que pretendem utilizar uma arquitetura pedagógica em conformidade com as tecnologias digitais em rede e recursos didáticos em formato digital. Sendo assim, este trabalho de pesquisa vem contribuir com o desenvolvimento e/ou customização de softwares educacionais que devem considerar os fatores humanos como elemento central através de uma arquitetura pedagógica que prioriza o estilo de aprendizagem dos alunos. Em especial, os Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem (AVA) utilizados na EaD, tendo em vista as dificuldades encontradas por seus usuários na utilização das interfaces educacionais destes ambientes digitais. Neste sentido, a metodologia adotada neste trabalho de pesquisa é o estudo de caso em uma perspectiva quantitativa e qualitativa, com o objetivo principal de sugerir recomendações para projetos de interfaces centradas no aprendiz à luz dos conceitos de Engenharia de Usabilidade, Interface Humano-Computador e Pedagogia Construtivista. As análises sobre a arquitetura pedagógica do AVA/CESAD/UFS, a partir das interações de quatro grupos de alunos do curso a distância de Bacharelado em Administração Pública do Centro Superior de Educação a Distância da Universidade Federal de Sergipe no período 2011.1, apresentaram resultados que confirmam o estilo de aprendizagem dos alunos como mais um fator humano para nortear os designs de AVA centrados no aprendiz. Como também, para proporcionar a sinergia entre inteligência coletiva, tecnologias digitais em rede e aprendizagem através de práticas colaborativas. Os resultados também demonstram que é possível conduzir os designs de interface e instrucional do ambiente virtual em sintonia com o estilo de aprendizagem dos alunos para aperfeiçoar a usabilidade técnica e pedagógica das interfaces educacionais digitais através da Arquitetura Pedagógica de Estilos de Aprendizagem (APEA).

Le style cognitif est un domaine bien étudié et approfondi dans les pays occidentaux, surtout aux États-Unis, mais il reste peu développé par les chercheurs chinois. Cette notion est à propos de la personnalité, de la façon de traiter des informations reçus chez les différents individus, et elle peut aussi porter une influence sur l’éducation, qui contient l’éducation de mathématiques. En Chine, les mathématiques sont une matière principale et importante dans le système éducatif, et sous un contexte particulier de la société chinoise, un système éducatif chinois s’est formé. La phase secondaire est la phase la plus représentative dans le système éducatif chinois, et sous le contexte particulier, il faut considérer les styles cognitifs les plus fréquents chez les élèves et aussi le style cognitif de chaque élève pour trouver des méthodes d’améliorer l’éducation mathématique aux écoles secondaires. Pour ce but, il faut bien prendre en considération le côté d’apprentissage et le côté de didactique. Ainsi, notre travail va commencer par une étude des recherches et des théories matures de style cognitif qui serviront de base théorique, et ensuite avec la présentation du contexte de l’éducation mathématique en Chine nous allons pouvoir mieux le lier avec le style cognitif. Avec les résultats de notre recherche nous analysons et proposons des manières possibles au niveau de politique, de didactique et d’apprentissage pour améliorer l’éducation mathématique aux écoles secondaires en profitant des théories de style cognitif et des résultats de notre recherche. / The cognitive style is a well-developed and studied domain in western countries, especially in USA, but it is still a new ground for Chinese researchers. This conception is about the personality, the way to treat the received information for individuals, and it can also influence the education, which includes of course the mathematic education. In China, the mathematic is a principle subject at school in the Chinese educational system. With a special background in the society of China, a special educational system has been formed. The secondary education is the most typical in this educational system, and we need to think about the most frequent cognitive styles among Chinese students and also the cognitive style of each student to find the best methods to make the mathematic education better and more appropriate. For this destination, we need to consider the side of learning and the side of teaching. Therefore, our work will start by a presentation of the researches of cognitive styles and those mature theories, which can be our theoretical base, and then we will connect the education of mathematic with cognitive styles by a presentation of the situation of mathematics education in China. With the results of our research, we will analysis and make some advises about the politics of education, of the teaching and learning methods to try to ameliorate the mathematic education in China with help of cognitive styles and this research.

This study explores the use of computer simulations to supplement learning in Science lessons, specifically the photoelectric effect. This study uses the Felder and Silverman Learning Style Model (FSLSM) as a theoretical framework to investigate the use of simulations as it provides a useful lens through which to explore the consistent way in which a person learns regardless of the teaching method or content learnt. Using this theoretical framework, this research investigates the experiences of learners with different learning styles when an interactive computer simulation is used to aid teaching the photoelectric effect in Physical Science. This case study used qualitative data collected from 17 computer literate Grade 12 learners in three different classes at a secondary school in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. Analysis of the data collected in this study shows that when the simulation is used in Science, the learning experience of the learners is enhanced. Positive experiences for all four the Dimensions in the FSLSM could be indentified when the ICS was used and this could be linked to specific learning styles. Sensory and Intuitive learners enjoyed conducting the experiment that would normally require unsafe conditions and that the experiment could be set up quickly and with ease. The different dimension brought about by using the ICS was enjoyed by Intuitive learners. The visualisation of the abstract physical systems enhanced the learning for Visual and Verbal learners, whilst Global and Sequential learners felt that they gained a deeper understanding of the photoelectric phenomenon by using the ICS. Reflective learners enjoyed the precision of their pseudo-experimental data, but the Active learners felt that they did not understand the graphs given in the ICS. The interactive control variables and the fact that the learners had an option to work in either a group or on their own, benefitted both Active and Reflective learners. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / Science, Mathematics and Technology Education / unrestricted

This study explores the use of computer simulations to supplement learning in Science lessons, specifically the photoelectric effect. This study uses the Felder and Silverman Learning Style Model (FSLSM) as a theoretical framework to investigate the use of simulations as it provides a useful lens through which to explore the consistent way in which a person learns regardless of the teaching method or content learnt. Using this theoretical framework, this research investigates the experiences of learners with different learning styles when an interactive computer simulation is used to aid teaching the photoelectric effect in Physical Science. This case study used qualitative data collected from 17 computer literate Grade 12 learners in three different classes at a secondary school in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. Analysis of the data collected in this study shows that when the simulation is used in Science, the learning experience of the learners is enhanced. Positive experiences for all four the Dimensions in the FSLSM could be indentified when the ICS was used and this could be linked to specific learning styles. Sensory and Intuitive learners enjoyed conducting the experiment that would normally require unsafe conditions and that the experiment could be set up quickly and with ease. The different dimension brought about by using the ICS was enjoyed by Intuitive learners. The visualisation of the abstract physical systems enhanced the learning for Visual and Verbal learners, whilst Global and Sequential learners felt that they gained a deeper understanding of the photoelectric phenomenon by using the ICS. Reflective learners enjoyed the precision of their pseudo-experimental data, but the Active learners felt that they did not understand the graphs given in the ICS. The interactive control variables and the fact that the learners had an option to work in either a group or on their own, benefitted both Active and Reflective learners. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Science, Mathematics and Technology Education / unrestricted

I denna studie försöker vi finna svar på hur en praktisk lärardemonstration kan utföras på ett pedagogiskt vis. Vi undersöker även övergången från den stund som domineras av läraren till den stund som utmärks av individuellt elevarbete. Skolämnet som studien utgår ifrån är slöjd men vi tror att de utmaningar och resultat som framkommer kan appliceras även på andra skolämnen. Från svar på enkäter riktade till elever och intervjuer utförda med både lärare och elever framkommer att ett flertal aspekter spelar in för ett framgångsrikt lärande knutet till  demonstrationer. Lärarens kapacitet och förmåga att både förbereda och framföra något är viktig. Samtidigt spelar lärarens kontakt med och kunskap om, både grupp och individ, roll. Återkoppling till elever bör ske med fokus på det som utförts och som eleven kan påverka. Även faktorer av mer praktiska slag påverkar, som vid vilken tid på dagen lektionen pågår och om eleverna då är pigga eller ofokuserade. Att få demonstrationen och det efterkommande elevarbetet att vara en lärorik stund istället för något tråkigt är en utmanande, komplex och rolig del av läraryrket. Att lyckas med det kan vara avgörande för elevernas förståelse och lust att engagera sig i ämnet. / In this study we try to find answers on how a practical demonstration, performed by a teacher, can be conducted in both effective and pedagogic ways. We also explore the transition from a teacher lead period to a period defined by practical work and understanding performed by pupils. The subject studied is the swedish sloyd, but we think the challenges are mainly the same in any school subject. Through research on literature in areas such as rhetorics, leadership and pedagogy we contrast different aspects on the subject with surveys conducted on pupils and interviews with both pupils and teachers. From empirics we conclude that different aspects play important roles in succeeding with bringing a sloyd demonstration into individual pupil knowledge. The teacher’s capacity in preparation and enthralling an audience as well as his or her empathy and knowledge of the mental constitution of the class all play a part. It is also important how well the teacher gives individualized feedback, when pupils start working or no longer do work due to various reasons. Practical factors such as hour of the day and whether the pupils are alert or hungry also do contribute.  Bringing a demonstration from a dull experience into engaged pupil work is a challenging, complex and enjoyable part of a lesson. It may be crucial to the pupil’s future effort making and understanding.

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Within the context of technological development, the needs and preferences of the 21st century student (Generation Y), the changing higher education environment, the increasing use of technology in teaching and learning, and the significant role of online learning facilitators in e-learning, the e-readiness of academic employees became imperative. Thus, considering the importance of academic employees' e-readiness, the primary objective of the study aims to determine the role of key human factors in their e-readiness, with specific focus on personal work profile patterns, preferred learning style and pace and style of technology adoption. The research problem therefore is how to determine the role of these key human factors in the e-readiness of academic employees. In this respect the study argues that the e-readiness assessment of academic employees must be included in the human resource performance appraisal process. The purpose of this research is to develop a framework for assessing the ereadiness of academic employees during their performance appraisals, as well as determining and assessing the role of key human factors in their e-readiness in order to draft an e-profile which will provide guidance in terms of structuring unique training and development approaches for each e-profile. Once accademic employees' e-readiness has been assessed during their performance appraisals, they can be plotted on the framework. The outcome of their e-readiness assessments will reveal their e-profiles, which will portray insight into the presence or absence of particular ereadiness indicators, outlined in an e-readiness construct. Subsequently, a personal development plan can be drafted, making provision for uniquely structured training and development interventions, best suited for each accademic employees' e-profile. The most suitable motivating factors for each employee will also be considered during the drafting of the personal development plan. The empirical research by means of a self-administered questionnaire and a focus group discussion revealed two prominent e-profiles indicating various levels of ereadiness, namely an early adopter-pragmatist-compliance e-profile and an early majority-theorist-steadiness e-profile. The findings made it evident that the traits portrayed by a person belonging to a certain technology adoption category show similarities to traits portrayed by particular learning styles and personal work profile patterns. Certain profiles could be identified, based on trends and similarities pertaining to interpersonal traits. The findings further revealed that with an increase in age and teaching experience of respondents (which also imply an increase in age), the willingness to be assessed on e-readiness declined. It was also determined that the human resource performance management policies and practices at the North-West University (NWU) (which is used as case study), do not make provision for the inclusion of e-readiness in performance appraisals of academic employees. Further it became evident that training and development interventions should not only focus on the technical skill of e-learning, but follow a broader teaching and learning approach, also including the philosophy of e-learning and the use and adaptation of teaching and learning strategies to obtain optimal learner learning. The findings of the study thus supported the need for a framework, providing guidance in this regard. Presently, neither the literature of human resource performance appraisal nor the literature of e-readiness or e-learning makes provision for assessing the e-readiness of academic employees. The study thus contributes to the scholarly discourse and knowledge in the field of public human resource management, as sub-field of Public Administration, by developing a theoretical framework (that currently does not exist), consisting of three matrixes for this purpose to determine the role of the key human factors in the e-readiness of academic employees. / Public Administration / D. Litt. et Phil. (Public Administration)

Text in Afrikaans / Die doel van die ondersoek sentreer rondom die verband tussen denkontwikkeling (‘n kognitiewe veranderlike) en prestasie in Afrikaans as tweede taal. Denkont-wikkeling is egter nie die enigste kognitiewe veranderlike wat prestasie in ‘n taal kan beïnvloed nie. Verbale begrip en geheue is ook as vername kognitiewe verander-likes geïdentifiseer. Affektiewe veranderlikes soos motivering, selfkonsep en angs, kan ook met prestasie in Afrikaans as tweede taal in verband gebring word. ‘n Empiriese ondersoek is uitgevoer waarby 174 hoërskoolleerders betrek is. Kognitiewe en affektiewe veranderlikes, asook leerstyl, is gemeet. Uit die empiriese ondersoek blyk dit dat selfkonsep, geheue, verbale begrip en motivering as die vernaamste veranderlikes beskou kan word wat met prestasie in Afrikaans as tweede taal verband hou. Denkontwikkeling is nie as ‘n vername faktor geïdentifiseer nie. Die bevindinge in die literatuurstudie en die empiriese ondersoek is bespreek om ouers en onderwysers van riglyne te voorsien om prestasie in Afrikaans te verhoog. / The aim of the research focusses on the relationship between thought development (a cognitive variable) and achievement in Afrikaans as a second language. Besides thought development, verbal understanding and memory recollection are also identified as distinctive cognitive variables. Affective variables such as motivation, self-concept and anxiety could also relate to performance in Afrikaans as a second language. Empirical research was conducted amongst 174 High School learners. Cognitive variables, affective variables and learning styles were measured. Resulting from the empirical research, it appears that self-concept, memory recollection, verbal comprehension and motivation are the main variables that impact on the performance of Afrikaans as a second language. Thought process development was not identified as a main factor. Results from the literature study and the empirical research are discussed in order to assist parents and teachers with guidelines to increase achievement in Afrikaans as a second language. / Psychology of Education / M. Ed. (Sielkundige Opvoedkunde)

本研究主要目的是探討GSP電腦輔助教學對國三學生學習三角形外心、內心及重心之成效。研究採用準實驗研究法中之不等組前後測設計，以桃園縣一所國中三年級四班共127位學生為研究對象，分派兩班為實驗組共63位學生，進行GSP電腦輔助教學課程；另兩班為控制組共64位學生，進行一般傳統講述教學課程。學生學習風格採用Kolb學習風格量表區分成「主動實驗」及「省思觀察」兩種類型，為探究不同學習風格之學生接受不同教學方法之後，在數學學習態度、成就與保留上的差異，採用二因子共變數分析檢定研究假設。並於實驗教學後，以GSP電腦輔助教學意見調查表調查其看法及態度，整理檢定分析及調查結果後得到以下結論： 一、排除前測影響後，學生在數學學習態度上的表現： (一)教學方法因子效果及學習風格因子效果之間沒有交互作用。 (二)教學方法因子效果有顯著差異；GSP電腦輔助教學法優於傳統講述教學法。 (三)學習風格因子效果沒有顯著的差異。 二、排除前測影響後，學生在數學學習成就上的表現： (一)教學方法因子效果及學習風格因子效果之間有交互作用。 (二)對學習風格為省思觀察者而言，教學方法因子會造成顯著的差異；GSP電腦輔助教學法優於傳統講述教學法。 (三)以省思觀察者接受傳統講述教學法後表現最差。 三、排除前測影響後，學生在數學學習保留上的表現： (一)教學方法因子效果及學習風格因子效果之間沒有交互作用。 (二)教學方法因子效果有顯著差異；GSP電腦輔助教學法優於傳統講述教學法。 (三)學習風格因子效果沒有顯著的差異。 (四)以省思觀察者接受GSP電腦輔助教學法後表現最佳。 四、GSP電腦輔助教學的看法及態度方面： 主動實驗者表示GSP電腦輔助教學提供了實際操作的機會，而省思觀察者則表示GSP電腦輔助教學提供了詳盡的說明和動態演示。就實驗組學生使用GSP電腦輔助教學而言，大多抱持著正向及肯定的學習態度。 / The purpose of this study is to explore the effects on learning performance of circumcenter, incenter and centroid of a triangle by 9th graders based on computer -assisted instruction using GSP in mathematics teaching. This study was conducted as a quasi-experimental design. Four classes, which have a total of 127 students, were sampled from a junior high school in Taoyun County. Two classes were assigned as experimental group and the others as control group. The former took “computer -assisted instruction using GSP in mathematics teaching” method learning, while the latter two took “traditional mathematics teaching” method learning respectively. This study used the learning styles inventory (LSI) of Kolb to classify learners into two groups -“active experimentation (AE)” and “reflective observation (RO)”. Two-way ANCOVA was conducted to test all hypotheses in order to find variations of mathematical learning attitudes, mathematical learning achievenments, mathematical learning retention. The study also investigated the views of points of the students in experimental group after the experiment. According to the analysis from the experiment, this study reached the following conclusions︰ 1.In mathematical learning attitudes: (1)Learning styles and teaching methods did’t interact significantly. (2)There was a significant difference between two teaching methods. The effect on experimental group was better than the control group. (3) There was no significant difference between two learning styles. 2.In mathematical learning achievements: (1)Learning styles and teaching methods interact significantly. (2)For the style RO, there was a significant difference between two learning styles. The effect on experimental group was better than the control group. (3)The effct on control group with the style RO was the worst. 3.In mathematical learning retention: (1)Learning styles and teaching methods did’t interact significantly. (2)There was a significant difference between two teaching methods. The effect on experimental group was better than the control group. (3) There was no significant difference between two learning styles. (4)The effct on experimental group with the style RO was the best. 4.After the experiment, most students in experimental group with the style AE said that “the experimental curriculums had provided the actual operation opportunity”; most students in experimental group with the style RO said that “the experimental curriculums had provided the exhaustive explanation and the dynamic demonstration”. They also agreed that the experimental curriculums were better.