UC@MOOC's Effectiveness by Producing Open Educational Resources

Open education is one of the most important settings in every society. It grants everyone the right to learn freely. Today, technology is helping to make learning even more open by providing an environment of online education, which plays a remarkable role in shortening distances and encouraging students to learn. At Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) the new-enrolled students are facing linguistics barriers as well as overcrowding in classrooms, in particular for those in open access institutions. Subsequently, they cannot have an easy access to their face-to-face courses. To help students to overcome these problems, the university has decided to design an online environment for all courses and programmes. The most innovative project adopted at UCA to face massification was inspired from the massive open online courses and was designed as an open Educational platform entitled UC@MOOC. More than 120 scripted courses have been posted online so far. In this paper we will describe and discuss an analytics research on geometrical optics course designed for around 2000 students at UCA. Through out this research we will explain how this initiative has been considered as a source of producing open educational resources

Virtual Exchange to Develop Cultural, Language, and Digital Competencies

Many researchers have underlined the benefits of student mobility in strengthening their communication skills. Studying a foreign language and fostering knowledge about behavioural attitudes are the most common research cases. One of the major issues of mobility, by its very nature, is that it implies significant travel and accommodation costs. Virtual mobility, or Virtual Exchange (VE), can be introduced as a proactive alternative solution. This work presents an evaluation of a telecollaborative online course model organised as a VE between German and Moroccan universities. It was established to explore the benefits of integrating a VE experience by practicing some 21st-century knowledge elements as tools for the development of intercultural, language, and digital competencies from the perspective of mobility. In this paper, we present a VE model and its design, structure, and progress. Then, we evaluate this first experience to overcome some challenges that similar future experiences could face. We analyse the tools proposed in this design, the interactions between the different actors, and their feedback. The evaluative study shows the acquisition of awareness of cultural differences and the improvement of language skills through practice in addition to the development of some digital skillsPeer Reviewe

SERVICE DISCOVERY – A SURVEY AND COMPARISON

With the increasing number of services in the internet, companies’ intranets, and home networks: service discovery becomes an integral part of modern networked system. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of major solutions for service discovery. We cover techniques and features used in existing systems. Although a few survey articles have been published on this object, our contribution focuses on comparing and analyzing surveyed solutions according eight prime criteria, which we have defined before. This comparison will be helpful to determine limits of existing discovery protocols and identify future research opportunities in service discovery

Innovation et tradition : cas de la découverte d’Argand et de la théorie d’Ampère

Au début du XIXe siècle Argand découvre, à partir d’un raisonnement par analogie, la représentation géométrique des nombres complexes longtemps considérés comme des nombres « impossibles ». Cette découverte a trouvé de nombreuses applications en électricité et a permis l’introduction des quaternions et du calcul vectoriel. Pourtant, lors de sa parution, l’article d’Argand fut sévèrement critiqué. À la même époque, Ampère note l’analogie entre un barreau aimanté et un solénoïde parcouru par un courant électrique. Il imagine, pour expliquer les propriétés des aimants, l’existence de courants « moléculaires ». Il ramène alors toutes les interactions de l’électromagnétisme à celle de deux éléments de courants et aboutit à une formule qui lui permet de retrouver des lois connues et d’en découvrir d’autres. Cette théorie fut mal accueillie par de nombreux savants. Les uns l’ont rejetée parce qu’elle ne cadrait pas avec leurs propres idées. D’autres reprochaient à Ampère d’avoir basé ses concepts sur des hypothèses qu’aucune expérience n’a pu mettre en évidence. On retrouvera la même situation à la fin du siècle lorsque Boltzmann, partisan de l’atomistique, fut violemment attaqué par des empiristes qui niaient l’existence réelle de l’atome. Ces exemples mettent en évidence l’importance du rôle heuristique du raisonnement par analogie et montrent que l’opposition des scientifiques était due en partie à l’utilisation de ce mode de raisonnement, jugé peu rigoureux, mais surtout parce que ces découvertes allaient à l’encontre des principes reçus.Bendaoud Mohamed Lamine, Traïche Rachid. Innovation et tradition : cas de la découverte d’Argand et de la théorie d’Ampère. In: Concepts, cultures et progrès scientifiques et techniques : enseignement et perspectives. Actes du 131e Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, « Tradition et innovation », Grenoble, 2006. Paris : Editions du CTHS, 2009. pp. 9-18. (Actes des congrès nationaux des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, 131-1

SERVICE DISCOVERY -A SURVEY AND COMPARISON

ABSTRACT With the increasing number of services in the interne

An Improved Biogeography-Based Optimization for the Long-Term Carpooling Problem

The increasing number of vehicles on the road produces negative effects for health, the environment, quality of life, and the economy, among other areas. To address this problem, an important key is carpooling private vehicles from different homes to a common destination. This paper specifically addresses the long-term carpooling problem, which is an NP-complete problem. The proposed approach is a modified biogeography-based optimization metaheuristic, which is hybridized with a variable neighborhood search. Comparisons with efficient known approaches indicate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for large-scale long-term carpooling problems

UC@MOOC's Effectiveness by Producing Open Educational Resources

Open education is one of the most important settings in every society. It grants everyone the right to learn freely. Today, technology is helping to make learning even more open by providing an environment of online education, which plays a remarkable role in shortening distances and encouraging students to learn. At Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) the new-enrolled students are facing linguistics barriers as well as overcrowding in classrooms, in particular for those in open access institutions. Subsequently, they cannot have an easy access to their face-to-face courses. To help students to overcome these problems, the university has decided to design an online environment for all courses and programmes. The most innovative project adopted at UCA to face massification was inspired from the massive open online courses and was designed as an open Educational platform entitled UC@MOOC. More than 120 scripted courses have been posted online so far. In this paper we will describe and discuss an analytics research on geometrical optics course designed for around 2000 students at UCA. Through out this research we will explain how this initiative has been considered as a source of producing open educational resources

Innovative Hybrid SPOC Model for Initial and Continuing Education at University

This paper describes an innovative model of hybrid SPOC (Small Private Online Course) implemented for Professional Licence curricula, running at Cadi Ayyad University since late 2016. This continuing training is the first in Morocco to be sanctioned by a nationally accredited diploma. The training requires learners to complete 70% of the work remotely, while the assessments are mainly face-to-face. The educational technologies used are mainly based on the LMS Moodle and social networks. We aim to explain how these technologies are used to articulate presence and distance coherently and effectively. The pedagogical theoretical framework of this hybrid SPOC model is inspired by social constructivism. Its implementation is the result of collaboration between researchers and teachers. The process of this double reflexive study is presented along with its advantages for teaching practices. We also present an analysis of the academic, technological and institutional context where the introduction of hybrid learning leading to a diploma could meet real demand and globally improve the quality of this training compared to its entirely face-to-face version. To optimize costs, and according to a viable economic model, the mediatized contents within the context of this continuing education are reused for another initial course program at Cadi Ayyad University free of charge for the students. Besides, part of this content is accessible to all as Open Educational Resources

UC@MOOC's Effectiveness by Producing Open Educational Resources

Open education is one of the most important settings in every society. It grants everyone the right to learn freely. Today, technology is helping to make learning even more open by providing an environment of online education, which plays a remarkable role in shortening distances and encouraging students to learn. At Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) the new-enrolled students are facing linguistics barriers as well as overcrowding in classrooms, in particular for those in open access institutions. Subsequently, they cannot have an easy access to their face-to-face courses. To help students to overcome these problems, the university has decided to design an online environment for all courses and programmes. The most innovative project adopted at UCA to face massification was inspired from the massive open online courses and was designed as an open Educational platform entitled UC@MOOC. More than 120 scripted courses have been posted online so far. In this paper we will describe and discuss an analytics research on geometrical optics course designed for around 2000 students at UCA. Through out this research we will explain how this initiative has been considered as a source of producing open educational resources