BRER - A new project financed by the Ministry of Education on Learning Object Repositories
Professor Gilbert Paquette has received in September 2010 a grant 492 000 $ for the next three years from the Ministry of Education of Quebec. The BRER project will be realized with the collaboration of the Bois-de-Boulogne College and also with the French Virtual Universities that use the ORI-OAI software for managing their Learning Object repositories. The BRER project aims in particular to give access to a critical mass of Learning resources in French and other languages to colleges and universities, providing a personalized resource harvesting service and combining the best components of the PALOMA, EURÊKA and ORI-OAI resource management systems.
A new book on Visual Modeling published in the US
A new book from professor Gilbert Paquette has been published in the US entitled « Visual Knowledge Modeling for Semantic Web Technologies: Models and Ontologies ». This 463 pages book groups research products and methods achieved at the CICE research Chair over a period of 15 years on knowledge and ontology modeling. The book includes chapters summarizing doctoral thesis achieved or being conducted under the direction of professor Paquette by Délia Rogozan, Julien Contamines, Anis Masmoudi and Michel Héon. It has also integrated contributions from CICE researchers Josianne Basque, Olga Marino, Béatrice Pudelko and Richard Hotte, and also from CICE associate researchers Michel Léonard, Karin Lundgren-Cayrol, François Magnan et Diane Ruelland.
Distinguished invited professor at the Dubai open University.
The CICE director, Gilbert Paquette, has been invited as one of the main speaker at the third annual forum on eLearning excellence in the Middle East held at the beginning of February 2010 at the Hamdam Bin Mohammed eUniversity in Dubaï.He has presented a conference entitled « Semantic Web Environments : Merging Learning and Knowledge
Management ». He has also participed to an expert panel on the subject: “Bringing Global Quality to a Local Context ». The week before the conference, as a distinguished invited professor of the university, he has held a workshop on knowledge-based instructional engineering and presented two other conferences, one on the TELOS system and the other, for a larger public, on the evolution of technology-based learning.
Invitation in Algeria as an international expert
Invited par the Algerian ministry of Energy and Mines as an international expert in the application of technologies to training, professor Gilbert Paquette has given the opening talk of the 6th training conference on December 1st and 2nd 2010. The conference has been given on “Implementation an Integration of Information and Communication Technologies into Training. He has also participated to an expert panel on this theme.
Invited conference in Tokyo of the GLOBE internationa network
On October 22, 2010, Gilbert Paquette has been invited to participate in the OUJ-GLOBE seminar hosted by the Japan Open University on « New Frameworks for Sharing and Distribution of Quality Lifelong Learning Content». The GLOBE organization in growing now grouping 12 participants around the world, each one, including LICEF, being in the process of federating learning resource repositories in the their own region or county. As the LICEF director has underlined, “we are closer and closer to a worldwide network giving access to a large number of quality learning resources that will benefit to everyone”.
TELOS is awarded a silver medal at IMS Learning Impact 2009
The IMS GLC, one of the main eLearning standards body, has held his « Learning Impact » annual conference in Barcelona, May 10-14 2009. Professor Gilbert Paquette has presented an invited communication entitled « Reusability and Quality for Learning » where he has summarized three recent project from his CICE résumé les Research Chair and LICEF Research Center. The TELOS system, main product of the LORNET research center (www.lornet.org), was in competition with around sixty others realizations of all kinds form thirty different countries. TELOS has won a silver metal.
Participation to the IMS Global Conference , Birmingham, September 15 -19, 2008
Gilbert Paquette has been invited to present the work done with the new TELOS scenario editor in relation to the IMS-LD (Learning Design) specification. The meeting was held in Birmingham, Great Britain. He has made three interventions that have risen huge interest within the participants from all parts of the world; the first one in a plenary session, the second, within a panel with IMS-LD leaders Dai Griffith (TenCompetence), Bill Olivier (JISC) andPatrick McAndrew (Open University), and the third one within the "Common Cartridge K-12" workshop. This workshop has decided to analyze closely the integration of LD within the Common Cartridge specification and has asked Gilbert Paquette and his team to prepare a demo that will integrate lesson plans for K-12 provided by IMS within the TELOS visual scenario editor. These exsmples will be presented at a next IMS conference at PennState University (USA) next November 3-6.
Participation to the ITS-08 Conference
The LORNET Research Network is holding a workshop on Ontology-based Learning Resource Repositories on Monday June 23 inside the international conference on Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS’08) to be held in Montreal all the week long, June 23 to 28. Following a call for papers, presentations will gather researcher from Canada and abroad. This LORNET – ITS’08 workshop will be held in the Télé-université building, 100 Sherbrooke West, Montreal. A program of this one day workshop will soon be published on the LORNET and ITS’08 Web sites. Furthermore, François Magnan and Alexis Miara will do a TELOS demonstration during demo sessions of ITS’08 conference.
Interaction with the IMS Global Consortium
Gilbert Paquette has participated to the IMS Learning Impact Conference, held at Austin Texas May 12-15. Hot subjects are the “Common Cartridge Alliance” that promotes a new specification aiming to replace SCORM as a main interoperability technology. IMS resolutely shifts toward more emphasis on tooling and standard implementation, particularly in higher education where a new group has been created where we will participate. LORNET leader Gilbert Paquette has presented the work done in LORNET and the TELOS system. See the presentation
Rob Abel, CEO of IMS, has visited LICEF later on in Montreal on June 3rd. Gilbert and François Magnan, the TELOS architect, have demonstrated the newest version of TELOS and presented research activities and products achieved by the LICEF team. Dr Abel had a very positive reaction and has invited us to participate in a number of IMS activities.
Recent conferences in 2008
On-line conference “Shaping The Future” of E-Learning Research in Canada. Gilbert Paquette has participated in this on-line conference by making a synchronous presentation using the Elluminate software on May 22nd. The conference was organized by Terry Anderson, George Siemens, Sylvia Currie and Paul Stacey. Gilbert has made “The Case for an ELearning Research Strategy” and proposed many initiatives that would promote leading edge research and the deployment of research results and products. See the presentation.
ACFAS-GIREFAD invited talk. Gilbert Paquette has been invited to present a broad overview of ICT evolution and its impacts on learning and teaching. This session was heldin Quebec City on May 6th, organized with the ACFAS Annual Conference by the GIREFAD (Groupe interuniversitaire d’études sur la formation à distance). See the presentation at ACFAS.
AERA-TICL Conference on Knowledge Modeling. Gilbert Paquette has participated in the Amercian Educational Research Association in New-York on March 25-26, within the TICL (Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning) chaired by Dr Joe Scandura. He has presented the Knowledge Modeling Approach for Tutoring developed at LICEF in a session where three approaches were compared. See the presentation at AERA.
Doctorate Honoris Causa
The LORNET Network Director, Dr Gilbert Paquette, received at La Sorbonne a honorary doctorate on November 21, 2007 from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris. This honorary doctorate is a recognition of the leading edge research done by Dr Paquette, granted by many research programs, who has published numerous scientific publications in distance learning, not to mention three books, who has participated in many international events as keynote speaker and who is collaborating in scientific committee of six scientific journals in France (3), in Canada (2) and in United-States (1). During his stay in Paris, Dr Pquette participated on a workshop on Distance Learning at Paris Expo with Mrs Louise Bertrand Télé-université Director and major french investigators. This workshop was the initiative of CNED (Centre National d’Éducation à Distance).
Fourth Annual Meeting of the LORNET network
The LORNET Research Network held its 4th annual International conference - I2LOR 2007 - on November 4 to 7, 2007 in Montreal, on the UQÀM science campus site. This year theme's conference User Centered Knowledge Environments: from theory to practice was focusing on learning technologies from the point of view of users. Again this year the conference gathered more than 125 participants attending tutorials on Sunday November 4 and participating in scientific paper, demo and poster presentations on Monday November 5 and Tuesday November 6. The Wednesday November 7 was dedicated to presenting the research network achievements and the i-LORNET Institute, a scenario to explore the future of LORNET. This Wednesday session was Webcasted; video presentations are active on the following links:
TELOS presentation: http://www.teluq.org/lornet/paquette_magnan.html
Achievements: http://www.teluq.org/lornet/bilan_lornet.html
Hubert Manseau presentation: http://www.teluq.org/lornet/hubert_manseau.html
The Globe Network is Developping
Acting as a representative for Canada, the LORNET director, Gilbert Paquette has participated into monthly GLOBE meetings with participants of four continents. These meetings were held thru a Web service application (FlashMeeting) on December 5, January 6 and February 5. This network of learning object repositories is growing. Besides its founding members (ARIADNE, MERLOT, EDNA, NIME and LORNET), new members are joining, namnely LACLO (Latin America), KERIS (KOREA), COSL/OER (US) and III (Taiwan).
Invited conferences in 2006
- ICALT-06 (Holland, July 5-6 2006);
- Université Pierre et Marie-Curie (Paris, May 2006);
- AERA-TICL (San Francisco, April 9-10-11 2006);
- Canadian Heritage Information Network (Ottawa, March 9-10 2006);
- Globe-Nime Séminar (Tokyo, February 15-16-17 2006)
GLOBE Alliance
The LORNET director, Gilbert Paquette, has been invited to participate to the Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange Alliance (GLOBE). LORNET replaces eduSource at the Canadian representative in GLOBE that groups also the ARIADNE Foundation in the European Union, EDUCATION.AU managing EdNA in Australia , MERLOT in the USA , and the National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan . These organizations have committed to work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content. The first steps in the alliance are to develop use cases, specifications, business rules and technologies which will enable searches across the repositories that the partners involved have developed over the recent years. The next meeting will be held in Tokyo , February 15-17 (http://www.nime.ac.jp/globe/index-eng.html) and the following one in The Netherlands, in July, at the ICALT-06 conference.
IMS-LD resource center
The IDLD web site developed by the CICE team with is now in operation at www.idld.org. Designed as a LD resource center, the site contains a set of IMS-LD-compliant learning and teaching scenarios, a methodological guide, a set of tools and some related documents to support the reuse of learning designs and training activities to IMS-LD. The IDLD project is dedicated to the dissemination of the basic concepts of educational modeling and the IMS-LD Learning Design specification.
CONCEPT@, a New Development
The Explor@ plateform development team has been involved in the design and construction of the new design portal of Télé-université. The CONCEPT@ portal integrates a new version of the PALOM@ learning object manager linked to a course structure editor. Both of these central components have been extracted from Explor@ so they can be aggregated using Web services with other on-line learning environments. Other Explor@ components will migrate in a short future to CONCEPT@ and also towards TELOS, the TELelearning Operating System that is developed by the LORNET research network.
PALOM@ is spreading in Québec
PALOM@, an off-spring of the Explor@ learning object manager is being deployed in many Quebec universities and in the pan-Canadian LORNET network of learning object repositories. This system has been retained by a network of universities as its repository manager after evaluation of a group of alternative products. Unlike most learning object repositories, PALOM@ enables search within one repository, many repositories within PALOM@ or through a federated search in repositories in other provinces or countries. Each repository and each object can be given different access rights so that repository administrators can decide if the metadata and the resources are freely accessible or restrained to a set of cooperating organisation or to a private group.
I2LOR-05
Simon Fraser University was this year the host of the second LORNET annual conference I 2LOR-2005 : E-Learning Frameworks for the Future : From Content to Services. The conference held on November 16 th to 18 th was preceded by a full day of Workshops covering: building ontologies, tools for social networking, tools for building the semantic Web and e-learning design. This annual conference is an opportunity for LORNET researchers and graduate students – more than 100 peoples from six Canadian universities - and LORNET partners to gather to present their research progresses and discuss the process of integrating the tools developed into the TELOS portal.
See: http://www.lornet.org/Portals/10/infolornet/Volume%203%20No1%20January%202006.pdf
UNFOLD/TENCompétence
Collaboration with the UNFOLD European project on the IMS Learning Design specification and educational modeling has been concretized by two scientific papers accepted for publication in the special issue of the ET&S Journal, led by Rob Koper and by the participation of Michel Leonard at the joint UNFOLD/PROLEARN conference in Heerlen, Holland, last September, where the issue was put together. The first paper in on Graphical Models of IMS-LD units of learning, and the second one on the transposition of MISA learning scenarios to IMS-LD format. The collaboration will continue with TENCompetence network led by Rob Koper. Gilbert Paquette has been asked to participate to the scientific committee of this network.
Book Publication in the USA
Gilbert Paquette has published a new book in 2003 in the Pfeiffer/Wiley series on Instructional Technology and Training. Entitled Instructional Engineering in Networked Environments, the book is the first complete publication of the MISA method. It has received strong appraisal from leading figures like David Merrill, who has written the foreword, and J. Michael Spector from the IBSTPI, an international organization that uses the method to build its competency profiles for training professionals.
Invited Conference on Learning Objects
Since Octobre 2002, within the eduSource project, Gilbert Paquette has participated to conferences on Learning Objects in Ottawa and Vancouver. the Explor@ 2 system, embedding the first learning object manager has been demonstrated .The next eduSouce Conference will be held in Montreal, June 5 2003, at auditorium of Télé-université in Montréal, 4750 avenue Henri-Julien.
Gilbert Paquette will also give the opening conference at the annual conference of REFAD, the francophone network on distance learning in Canada.
He will also give the opening conference of the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) in St-John NewFoundland, on June 9 2003.
See presentation REFAD (in french)
EduSource
Within the recent call for proposals launched by CANARIE, in June 2002, on learning objects repositories, the eduSource consortium was awarded an important financing which will allow it to resolve a set of problems concerning the integration of learning objects repositories in education and training practices. The consortium is composed of six organizations situated in British Colombia, in Alberta, in Ontario, in Quebec and in New Brunswick. The team in Quebec is directed by Gilbert Paquette within Cogigraph Technologies, a R&D subsidiary of Télé-université. This team will be responsible for the integration of the software components produced by other teams, with the Explora system.
First SavoirNet course
Within Canal Savoir's SavoirNet project, a first course intitled " Technologies to learn " underwent successfully two benchmarks, one being conducted at LORIT, the laboratory of observation and research on instructional technologies, a LICEF installation. The course content under Gilbert Paquette's responsibility contains around thirty videos (produced by Savoir Multimedia Inc) and a set of activities and educational resources delivered by the Explor@-II system. The course will be offered in a general public version by Canal Savoir and in a university-credited by the Télé-université, starting in the autumn 2002 session.
New version of the Explor@ system
The Explor@-II system, constructed during the last two years by a joint LICEF -Cogigraph team, directed by Gilbert Paquette, is now completed and will be put in operation at the beginning of October, 2002. It contains a new SQL / XML data support which facilitates its interoperability with other systems, a new learning resource manager bases on the IEEE/IMS/CANCORE Metadata standards, and new tools which facilitates Web-based course design.. Explor@-II will be used at Télé-université and within the SavoirNet delivery infrastructure. Different applications are also in discussion for Web training in the Workplace.
Invited conferences
Gilbert Paquette has presented two conferences invited this summer (2002), the first one in Sherbrooke, within the 2nd international workshop on virtual laboratories and the second one at the 2002 world congress IFIP (International is Federation for Information Processing) http://local.cips.ca/info2002/. The conference, presented on August 26 in Montreal, is entitled "Modeling and Delivering Distributed Learning Environments".
Publication of two books
Gilbert Paquette has published, in May 2002, two books at the Université du Quebec Press entitled: The Engineering of Tele-learning, to Build Learning Networks, (450 pages) and Knowledge and Competency Modeling, to Design and Learn (357 pages). An English translation one of these books is on its way for publication in the United States by Jossey-Bass-Pfeiffer.
CIRTA conference
CIRTA held its 2nd conference on May 15th and 16th, 2002, with the participation of around fifty researchers. Most of the presentations are available on the CIRTA Web site. Gilbert Paquette participated in three of these communications on the following subjects: construction of a bank of Telelearning resources and expertise, the Modeling of a System of Assistance to users of a Telelearning environment, and the design of tools to help students self-manage their learning activities.
PRESENTATIONS in China and Japan - June 26 - July 9 2001
Invited by the Government of Quebec, I have participated in a mission on distance education at Shanghai, China. I have met with teams involved in distance learning at four universities: Shanghai University, "TV-university" , TONJI University and JIAOTONG University. Meetings with the last two universities have led to a general agreement with CIRTA that will help build joint development projects.
Afterwards, I have participated in an international conference in Kumamoto, Japan, on learning technologies in higher education and training. See the presentaiton on this site home page.
First CIRTA seminar, May 15, 2001
The Center for interuniveristy research on telelearning applications has held it first annual conference with the ACFAS congress in Sherbrooke, Quebec. More thant 50 researchers have participated. Each research team and group in CIRTA have presented their work. Personnally, I have participated in the following three presentations:
- G. Paquette, Richard Hotte and Karin Lundgren "Virtual Learning Centers"
- J. Basque, J. Bourdeau and Gilbert Paquette "Instructional Engineering"
- A. Dufresene, M. Aubé, R. Nkambou and Gilbert Paquette "Adaptive Interface and Advice"
Conferences, Montreal, Spring 2001
- 15 juin 2001 - "Explor@ - Orcherstrer l'apprentissage en ligne" , Séminaires Innovation, Laboratoires universitaires Bell
- 29 mai 2001 - "Optimiser l'apprentissage en ligne" , Conférence sur le e-learning et la formation à distance, Institut International de recherche
- 11mai 2001 - "Le réseautage entre institutions de formation à distance" , Colloque du Réseau francophone d'éducation à distance (REFAD)
- 20 mars 2001 - "Génie logiciel cherche genie éducatif" , Conférences du SPIN de Montréal
- 16 mars 2001 - "La formation virtuelle - Défi et enjeux" , Séminaires de l'AFIRM (Association des formateurs en informatique de la region de Montréal)
SAVOIR NET PROJECT, CANARIE, Toronto, October 2000
I have presented there the SavoirNet project that I have build as president of Canal Savoir. The presentation: "SAVOIR NET, A knowledge delivery network integration television and Inter" has been given to the 1st Annual E-Learning Worshop de CANARIE, October 4, 2001.
PowerPoint 97 presentation
Guadalajara, October 2000
I have presented an invited conference to the "IX encuentro Internacional de Educacion a Distancia", unde the title: "Web-based Telelearning Models and strategies". This conference has attracted around 200 participants from many spanish speaking America countries and Spain.
ED-MEDIA 2000
Gilbert Paquette, Scientific Director of Télé-université's research centre was one of the four keynote speakers at this annual event that has groupep around 1200 participants from a large number of countries. This year, the conference was held in Montreal, June 26-30. Dr Paquette's conference, intitled "Web-based TeleLearning Models and Strategies", was given at 8h30, June 29th, at Le Centre Sheraton Hotel. You can view the presentation by clicking on the following icon.
PowerPoint 97 presentation
European presentations at the beginning of june
From June 1st to June 15th 2000, Gilbert Paquette will present the work of Télé-université's LICEF research centre in four european countries. The Explor@ Virtual Learning Center delivery system will be presented along with the new ADISA distributed support system for designers of telelearning environments, based on the MOT Knowledge Editor and the MISA 4.0 method for instructional engineering.
June 5-7, Dr Paquette will speak at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and study the research done at this university;
June 7-8, at the University of Namur, Belgium, he will participate in the inauguration CIME (Centre Interfacultaire des Médias de l'Education) led by Bernadette Charlier;
June 9-11, at the University of Maine at Le Mans (France), he will discuss join t projects within a general agreement between this university and Télé-université;
June 11-16, he will participate in an international worshop at Dagsthul, Germany, on the subject : "Multimedia for Multimedia: Learning and Teaching in the Next Decade".
Refad Award
Gilbert Paquette has received an award for his participation to the development of telelearning in francophone Canada. Here is a picture from this event that was held in Quebec City on May 5th. The award is given by Robert Meilleur, chairman of REFAD (Réseau francophone d'apprentissage à distance), grouping most of the francophone distance education institutions in Canada, which was holding its annual assembly.
Instructional technology in the 21st century: Projections by international leaders
Gilbert Paquette, Leader of the TeleLearning NCE research theme on workplace telelearning and Director of the LICEF Centre at Tele-Universite, recently presented at AERA 2000 (www.aera.net/meeting/am2000/ ), held in New Orleans at the end of April 2000. The title of the presentation is "TeleLearning Models Impact on Instructional Technology in the 21st Century".
PowerPoint 97 presentation
This workshop was chaired by Joseph M. Scandura and featured presentations by Sanne Dijkstra,University of Twente; Klaus Breuer, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Germany; Jose J. Gonzalez, Agder University College, Norway; Frank Achtenhaagen, University of Goettingen; J. Michael Spector, Syracuse University, USA and The University of Bergen; Franz Schott, Dresden Technical University, Germany); M. David Merrill, Utah State University) and Ingo Dahn, University of Koblenz-Landau. These presentations will appear as articles in a special issue of The Journal of Structural Learning, to appear early in 2001.