Search results for author:"Alain Breuleux"
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The renewal of teacher education through networked learning communities
Thérèse Laferrière; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2044–2048
The paper considers the framework within which information and communication technologies (ICTs) integration can support teacher education renewal through collaborative learning. Adopting a socio-constructivist approach and a design-experiment...
Topics: Integration, Educational Technology, Collaboration, Networking Technologies, Information Communication Technologies
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Knowledge building : Innovative practice in network-enabled classrooms
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2928–2930
The objectives for the poster-demo session are to present the early results of a design experiment on teaching, learning and leading in broadband-enabled small remote schools in rural Quebec. School-based participants and university-based...
Topics: Schools, Learning Objects
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ICT Integration: A Professional Development Model That Proves to be Transformative and Viable
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1471–1474
This paper presents a professional development model that proved its practical relevance in our teaching and research work within the TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence (1995 to 2002; Theme Educating the Educators). Ways in which post...
Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies, Post Secondary Education
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Networking Remote Rural Schools for Learning and Knowledge Building: Teachers’, School Learners’ and Schools’ trajectories
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 3167–3171
This presentation will report on ICT integration trajectories in innovative remote networked settings. The design experiment involves thirteen sites. Trajectories of teachers, school learners, and schools are here considered. Data were participants' ...
Topics: Interaction, Integration, Information Communication Technologies, Schools
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Remote Networked Schools: A Case for Collaborative Knowledge Building
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 933–938
The future of small communities in Québec and elsewhere in the world poses an ongoing challenge, one that small village schools, which must provide educational services of the same quality as bigger schools, are also facing. The challenge is all the ...
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Teacher Online/Onsite Collaboration in the Knowledge Building International Project
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2886–2888
This paper describes teacher collaboration enabled by digital platforms. The Knowledge Building International Project (KBIP 2007-2014) operates on the basis of locally based networks of innovation distributed around the globe. Pedagogical and...
Topics: Creativity, K-12 Teachers and School Leaders Related, New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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The collaborative design of innovative learning spaces: Formative change laboratory interventions
Alain Breuleux; Erica Goldstein
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 700–709
Most universities are currently developing new learning spaces to adapt to their changing student population and to take advantage of recent technological tools, however they tend to deploy design and decision-making processes that are fragmented...
Topics: Methodologies for System Design, Change
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Facilitating online interaction and collaboration in a professional learning network
Gyeong Mi Heo; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1170–1177
The Creating, Collaborating, and Computing in Mathematics (CCC-M) project is a collaborative research project based on a university-school board partnership to design and build a professional learning network (PLN) of teachers. This study describes...
Topics: Interaction, Mathematics, Collaboration, Research & Evaluation, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Collaborative Inquiries into the Networked Classroom
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Robert Bracewell
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 852–857
This paper points to the teacher professional development practices in a networked classroom that become reality with the use of advanced telecollaboration tools such as Virtual-U and KnowledgeForum. Those tools support, extend, and strengthen the ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Information Communication Technologies, Collaboration, Networking Technologies
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Innovative Models of Web-Supported University-School Partnerships
Therese Laferriere; Gaalen Erickson; Alain Breuleux
Canadian Journal of Education Vol. 30, No. 1 (2007) pp. 211–238
This study explored how the Internet bridges theory and practice. Teacher educators, teachers, and prospective teachers used collaborative technologies to design networked communities embedded in three distinct perspectives: the networked learning...
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Teaching as a visible activity in remote networked schools: A socio-cultural perspective
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Stéphane Allaire
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6846–6852
This paper addresses socio-cultural possibilities and obligations related to teaching as visible when teachers engage K-12 learners in the use of collaborative technologies over large bandwidth in small remote rural schools. A systemic initiative...
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The Emerging Contribution of Online Resources and Tools to K-12 Classroom Learning and Teaching
Alain Breuleux; Robert Bracewell; Therese Laferriere
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2478–2482
This paper presents the emerging ecological contribution of online network technologies on student learning. Significant effects of the use of ICTs were gathered from documentary reviews. An organizing framework was developed in order to make sense...
Topics: Networking Technologies, Classrooms
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Designing Activities in Networked Classrooms at the Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels
Thérèse Laferrière; Alain Breuleux; FirstName LastName
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2873–2877
University- and school-based teacher educators, pre-service teachers, and educational researchers/learning scientists are seeking to develop thoughtful and effective uses of information and communication technologies (ICT) in networked classrooms...
Topics: Educational Technology, Collaboration, Learning Objects, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies
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Fostering a Technology-rich Professional Learning Community: A Design-based Research Cycle
Lei Nong; Alain Breuleux; Gyeong Mi Heo
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1236–1244
This paper describes the early process of a teacher professional development project during which a technology-rich professional learning community was developed and refined to support ongoing teacher development. The aim of this project was to...
Topics: Community, Literacy, Professional Development, Research & Evaluation, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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TeleLearning Professional Development Schools (TL•PDSs): Emerging Patterns of Time Management Within and Between Sites
Thérèse Laferrière; Alain Breuleux; Robert Bracewell
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1860–1864
This paper is a report on the findings of an on-going research program on teachers' learning of new pedagogies supported by telelearning tools. Computer-supported learning communities that involve high school learners, preservice teachers,...
Topics: Teachers, Interaction
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Global Perspectives on Trends, Issues and Challenges in E-Learning for Teacher Development
Paul Resta; Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Niki Davis
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 2234–2240
The panel session will focus on key topics and issues related to the use of e-Learning for teacher development. The international group of panelists includes chapter authors of a new book commissioned by UNESCO entitled Teacher Development in an E...
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Use of video records of classroom practices to support teacher reflection in a professional learning network
Leah Dayan; Alain Breuleux; Gyeong Mi Heo; Lei Nong
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 980–989
This study discusses the use of video records of classroom practices in a professional learning network (PLN) in order to support teacher reflection and professional development. Select video recordings of participating teachers of the PLN were...
Topics: Instructor Networking, Instructor Training and Support, improving classroom teaching, Video, Professional Development
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CRACTIC : towards a model for the implementation of socio-constructivists principles in multiple classrooms collaborative projects using the Web.
Jacques Viens; Alain Breuleux; Pierre Bordeleau; Allen Istvanffy; Sonia Rioux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1226–1227
CRACTIC stands for "Research Community on Collaborative Learning with Information and Communication Technologies". It is a collaborative research involving university professors, teachers and domain experts in the development and implementation of...
Topics: Community, Teachers, Communication, Collaboration, Information Communication Technologies
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E-Learning for Teacher Development: Global Perspectives of Policy and Planning Issues
Paul Resta; Mary Lamon; Alain Breuleux; Evgueni Khvilon; Mariana Patru
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1743–1746
The panel session will focus on key topics and issues related to the use of e-Learning for teacher development. The international group of panelists are chapter authors of a new book commissioned by UNESCO entitled e-Learning for Teacher Development:...
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CRACTIC: Lessons learned from the implementation of a socioconstructivist approach in a multiple classrooms collaborative project using the Web
Jacques Viens; Alain Breuleux; Pierre Bordeleau; Allen Istvanffy; Sonia Rioux
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1962–1963
Fostering socio-constructivist practices with ICT in K-12 classroom activities is complex and requires numerous conditions to be met. In order to study these conditions and to develop a model of practices that take teachers' concerns and classroom...
Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Teachers, Community, Collaboration, Classrooms
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Network-supported University-School Partnerships: The Transformation of Professional Practice in Remote Networked Schools
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Sandrine Turcotte; Stéphane Allaire; Christine Hamel
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 843–849
This paper reports on university-school partnerships that support the renewal and enrichment of the school learning environment in remote rural areas in an educational reform context. The design experiment, which is now in its Phase III, involved...
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Engaging the conversation with stakeholders on an expansive definition of e-learning
Paul Resta; Mariana Patru; Alain Breuleux; Therese Laferriere; Niki Davis
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2470–2474
The panel session will introduce a new UNESCO book entitled Teacher Development in an E-Learning Age: A Policy and Planning Guide. The international group of panelists includes chapter authors. They will present the four strands that constitute the...
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Infrastructure Support for Boundary Crossing and Teacher Professional Development: An Activity Theory Perspective
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Allaire Stéphane; Christine Hamel; Sandrine Turcotte
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 892–895
We apply cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) to analyze an enduring university-school-government (SUNG) partnership. Teacher professional development was the result of shifts in action resulting in the co-design of collaborative learning...
Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Technology Leadership, New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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Collaborative Design as a Form of Professional Development
Joke Voogt; Therese Laferrière; Alain Breuleux; Rebecca C. Itow; Daniel T. Hickey; Susan McKenney
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 43, No. 2 (March 2015) pp. 259–282
Increasingly, teacher involvement in collaborative design of curriculum is viewed as a form of professional development. However, the research base for this stance is limited. While it is assumed that the activities teachers undertake during...
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Distributed leadership facilitating collaboration in a teacher community of practice
Gyeong Mi Heo; Donna Anderson; Marie-Helen Goyetche; Dorothy Taker; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1529–1534
Building Community through Telecollaboration (BCT) is a province-wide initiative with educators and administrators from English school boards across Quebec. It aims to encourage, facilitate and support collaboration among students, teachers and...
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Building Community through Telecollaboration (BCT) project in Quebec
Alain Breuleux; Gyeong Mi Heo; Ted Wall; Latoya Morgan; Luis Flores
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 819–824
The purposes of this paper are to introduce the Building Community through Telecollaboration (BCT) project, a province-wide initiative with educators from English school boards across Quebec. The BCT project is a design research (Bereiter, 2005;...
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The Evolution of a Teacher Professional Learning Network for Digital Literacy
Lei Nong; Alain Breuleux; Gyeong Mi Heo; Leah Dayan; Karen Rye; Tina Morotti; Lisa Rae-Nutter; Sandra Fréchette
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 189–197
This case study describes the evolution of a teacher professional development project for digital literacy. The goal of this teacher professional development project is to support teachers’ effective use of technology and professional learning in an ...
Topics: Professional Development, Literacy, Exemplary Projects
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Partnerships for Knowledge Building: An Emerging Model
Thérèse Laferrière; Mireia Montane; Begona Gros; Isabel Alvarez; Merce Bernaus; Alain Breuleux; Stéphane Allaire; Christine Hamel; Mary Lamon; Mary Lamon
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 36, No. 1 (Dec 17, 2010)
Knowledge Building is approached in this study from an organizational perspective, with a focus on the nature of school-university-government partnerships to support research-based educational innovation. The paper starts with an overview of what is ...