Title: "Synchronous CSCL with Platine Environment"

Day: Friday, June 3, 2005

Time: 15:30-17:00

Location: C02 and C03

Organizers: David Raymond, Kazuhide Kanenishi, Kenji Matsuura, Yoneo Yano, Veronique Baudin, Thierry Gayraud, Michel Diaz

Description: The development of high bandwidth Internet access allows bringing videoconferencing and synchronous communications to the users. This is a chance for distant collaborative learning activities. It becomes now possible to gather a group of distributed users and provide them an environment for exchanging information. In order to get full potential of synchronous interactions, communications should be structured and easy to set up. Contrary to traditional videoconferencing systems, synchronous CSCL environments do not only provide audio and video communications but they support the collaboration at a higher level. This interactive event shares the experience of Tokushima University (Raymond et al., 2004) and presents the benefits and challenges of synchronous CSCL. Participants will be able to test and use the “Platine” environment developed by the LAAS-CNRS (Baudin, Drira, Villemur & Tazi, 2004). The Platine environment is used for e-learning experiment in the Lab@Future European project (LabFuture, 2005). This environment proposes both communication tools (videoconference, chat, whiteboard and application sharing) and administrative tools to be able to define sessions, rights and control over the use of tools. This event describes how to create and configure a session. Then it presents how to join a session and use the different tools of the environment. This event is a chance for participants to experience the use of a synchronous distant learning environment. This event presents some of the problems encountered in the management of distributed users and the technical influence of network. It is a first step to define how educational staff can take advantage of synchronous CSCL for their educational activities. Click here for a full description.

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