Improving interactivity

Fostering interactivity in a university course is a real challenge, especially in a distance or blended learning context where contact with students is not as direct as in a face-to-face setting.

Despite the distance, e-learning tools and the process of pedagogical scripting can help you to move from a “traditional” lecture in which students are passive recipients of knowledge to an "interactive" lecture in which your students become actors and actresses of the course through active participation. In particular, this will allow you to generate interest in your discipline, keep your students' attention and motivate them to learn regularly (as opposed to a simple intensive pre-examination cram session).

How do you set up these interactive lectures ? Generally speaking, we advise you to significantly reduce the amount of content you present, this is an opportunity to rethink your course and to use the “flipped classroom” approach (concepts presented before the sessions). Thanks to the time saved by using this method, you will be able to integrate pedagogical activities in parallel to your presentations of "classic" theoretical content, in order to mobilize your students on a particular theme. Such activities are more or less complex and time-consuming and can be adapted to your pedagogical objectives.   

Examples of e-learning platforms and applications to...