Par Mélanie Julien. À l’occasion de la Grande Conférence de la santé, organisée le 11 février 2016, temps fort d’échanges publics consacrés aux nouveaux enjeux du secteur, la Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (DREES) et ses partenaires ont réalisé un état des lieux inédit des connaissances sur les 1,9 million de professionnels de santé qui exercent en France. 
À travers une vingtaine de fiches à la fois pédagogiques et synthétiques, cet ouvrage fournit les chiffres clés sur les différents aspects des métiers et des parcours des professionnels de santé. Voir l'article...

This report explores the first iteration of a teacher professional development courselet grounded in constructionist theory and activities. This online teacher professional development (oTPD) courselet provided opportunities for teachers to engage in just-in-time, ongoing TPD within a social networking site for educators. More...

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Editorial

Research Articles

Book Notes

Book review - The perfect online course: Best practices for designing and teaching Marta Ruiz-Corbella

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Book review - Web 2.0-based e-learning: Applying social informatics for tertiary teaching Juan Leon

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Book review - Learning with digital games: A practical guide to engaging students in higher education Maja Pivec

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Book review - Bridging the knowledge divide: Educational technology for development Aminudin Zuhairi

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The shift to technology-mediated modes of instructional delivery and increased global connectivity has led to the rise in globalized e-learning programs. Educational institutions face multiple challenges as they seek to design effective, engaging, and culturally competent instruction for an increasingly diverse learner population. More...

Role play activities provide opportunities for learners to adopt unfamiliar roles, engage in interactions with others, and get involved in realistic tasks. They are often recommended to foster the development of soft skills and a wider perspective of the world. More...

The exploration of study orchestrations emphasises students’ active participation in learning, describing the ways in which they marshal the resources available to them in response to their learning environment. This study reports the identification of study orchestrations in a group of distance students and identifies the existence of dissonant study orchestrations, which previous research has linked with poor achievement, in approximately one-fifth of the group. More...

The Arctic is a vast, sparsely populated area. The demographic situation points to online distance education as a solution to support lifelong learning and to build competence in the region. More...

The HANDS (Helping Autism-diagnosed teenagers Navigate and Develop Socially) research project involves the creation of an e-learning toolset that can be used to develop individualized tools to support the social development of teenagers with an autism diagnosis. The e-learning toolset is based on ideas from persuasive technology. More...

Offered between 2006 and 2009 and graduating 21 Inuit candidates, the Nunavut Master of Education program was a collaborative effort made to address the erosion of Inuit leadership in the K-12 school system after the creation of Nunavut, Canada’s newest territory, in 1999. Delivered to a large extent in short, intensive, face-to-face courses, the program also made extensive use of online supports. More...

Distance learning is seen as the obvious answer for remote learners, and the use of online media is expected to overcome any access difficulties imposed by geographical distance. However, this belief may be obscuring our understanding of the role that location and individual circumstances have in shaping student experience. More...