E-learning: A pedagogical model for distance learning

This paper deals with a project that concerns the New Communication Engineering Institute (ENIC Telecom Lille I), which can be considered to be the equivalent of a French "Grande Ecole". The peculiarity of such a school as the ENIC has been to propose a distance-learning program since 1994. Inspired by the in-school pedagogical model lecture, directed training, practical work usually followed in France, we have built a similar but adapted model for distance learning: - the << lecture >> part, attended on-line by the student himself (or herself), is leant on on-line courses, composed of HTML pages enhanced with multimedia resources such as videos, sounds, or flash animations, - the << directed training part >> is leant on TutTelCast (R) tool [6] developed in ENIC. From a teaching position located in ENIC, a teacher broadcast his training to students located at work or at home, simply using an internet access and a phone, - the << practical work >> and the evaluation are now integrated during in-school periods. Our aim is to develop tools for student self-evaluation. Then, student is early able to know if a course is understood or not. That's why we think about integrating these two parts in distance learning period.