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M. Marcel Lebrun

SSH/ESPO - Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication
SSH/PSP - Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS)

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  IPM - Grand Rue 54 bte L1.06.01 à 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
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  Phone : 010 47 89 27
  Secretary : 010 47 89 40
  Fax : 010 47 89 39
  Building : CV09; Floor 02; Office D 211; Site Louvain-la-Neuve
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Marcel Lebrun got a Ph.D in Science and is now professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Science Education at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (UCL - Université catholique de Louvain).
After initial studies in physics (mainly experimental research and computers applications), Marcel Lebrun spent, in the eighties, some years at the development of teaching-learning softwares mainly in the modelisation and simulation area. His interest about learning with technological tools (Computer-aided instruction) and integration of technology within pedagogical design led him to a deeper understanding of inner and outer factors about learning and teaching with technology. His current perspective is more context and methods driven than tools driven and he considers technology as a catalyst for education renewal.
His teaching is mainly devoted to educational technology, courses and training analysis, design and evaluation, initial teachers training but he kept some courses in computer sciences and physics simulation.
Marcel Lebrun is now member of the Institute for University Teaching and Multimedias (IPM - Institut de pédagogie universitaire et des multimédias) at UCL. He acts as teachers counsellor for the development, implementation and evaluation of pedagogical initiatives (mainly active and cooperative methods) sustained by technological tools. He is head of the Internet and Multimedia Center (integrated within IPM) whose objective is helping teachers to develop new skills, methods and tools for university teaching and meaningful learning. He promotes the integration and the link between the "two antennas" of IPM : technical development and pedagogical considerations.
His current research concerns the role of technological tools in the cooperative students work and the students and teachers perception about technology in their learning or teaching. Concerning the developments area, he supervises the development of the web-learning UCL platform CLAROLINE designed around teachers needs and proposals. He also contributes to CD's development in the fields of learning methods and documents searching. He also works together with teachers in many different innovation projects. Finally, he participates in distance education courses as the Learn-nett project (initially sustained by EC Socrates) whose purpose is the initial teachers training concerning integration of technologies in education.
During 2002, he organizes a summer university concerning technology in learning and teaching (as part of the Recre@sup project sustained by EC Socrates-Minerva) and a private seminar between Quebec, Swiss and Belgian counsellors in university teachers ressources centers.
Marcel Lebrun just finished a new third book in french concerning "eLearning for teaching and learning " (Academia-Bruylant, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2005).
http://www.ipm.ucl.ac.be


GRAPPLE : Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment

GRAPPLE is an EU FP7 STREP Project. GRAPPLE stands for "Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment". The GRAPPLE project aims at delivering to learners a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment that guides them through a life-long learning experience, automatically adapting to personal preferences, prior knowledge, skills and competences, learning goals and the personal or social context in which the learning takes place. The same TEL environment can be used/accessed at home, school, work or on the move (using mobile/handheld devices). GRAPPLE will include authoring tools that enable educators to provide adaptive learning material to the learners, including adaptive interactive components (visualizations, simulations, virtual reality). Authoring includes creating or importing content, assigning or extracting meaning from that content, designing learning activities and defining pedagogical properties of and adaptation strategies for the content and activities. To ensure the wide adoption of adaptation in TEL GRAPPLE will work with Open Source and commercial learning management system (LMS) developers to incorporate the generic GRAPPLE functionality in LMSs. (2007-2010)

 

 

Res@Tice : Le connectivisme… jusque où ? 

Ce projet (2008-2010), modeste dans son financement, est soutenu par le “Réseau des chercheurs en technologies de l’information et de la communication pour l’enseignement” de l’AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie). Le cadre théorique est la théorie du connectivisme de  Georges Siemens (2004) appliquée au processus d’apprentissage en réseau. Pour l’ensemble des partenaires du réseau mais aussi pour tous les enseignants chercheurs impliqués en pédagogie universitaire, l’apport consistera en une meilleure connaissance, dans une perspective interculturelle, des approches connectivistes menées dans le cadre des dispositifs de formation et de communication médiatisées. Aux plans pédagogique et didactique, les formateurs impliqués pourront, sur la base des observations, mieux réguler et adapter leur dispositif de formation. Les étudiants bénéficieront d'une acculturation aux TIC par l'usage et pourront également acquérir des compétences transversales. Les chercheurs développeront à cette occasion une meilleure connaissance des traces et de leur traitement.

Research

GRAPPLE : Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment

GRAPPLE is an EU FP7 STREP Project. GRAPPLE stands for "Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment". The GRAPPLE project aims at delivering to learners a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment that guides them through a life-long learning experience, automatically adapting to personal preferences, prior knowledge, skills and competences, learning goals and the personal or social context in which the learning takes place. The same TEL environment can be used/accessed at home, school, work or on the move (using mobile/handheld devices). GRAPPLE will include authoring tools that enable educators to provide adaptive learning material to the learners, including adaptive interactive components (visualizations, simulations, virtual reality). Authoring includes creating or importing content, assigning or extracting meaning from that content, designing learning activities and defining pedagogical properties of and adaptation strategies for the content and activities. To ensure the wide adoption of adaptation in TEL GRAPPLE will work with Open Source and commercial learning management system (LMS) developers to incorporate the generic GRAPPLE functionality in LMSs. (2007-2010)

 

 

Res@Tice : Le connectivisme… jusque où ? 

Ce projet (2008-2010), modeste dans son financement, est soutenu par le “Réseau des chercheurs en technologies de l’information et de la communication pour l’enseignement” de l’AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie). Le cadre théorique est la théorie du connectivisme de  Georges Siemens (2004) appliquée au processus d’apprentissage en réseau. Pour l’ensemble des partenaires du réseau mais aussi pour tous les enseignants chercheurs impliqués en pédagogie universitaire, l’apport consistera en une meilleure connaissance, dans une perspective interculturelle, des approches connectivistes menées dans le cadre des dispositifs de formation et de communication médiatisées. Aux plans pédagogique et didactique, les formateurs impliqués pourront, sur la base des observations, mieux réguler et adapter leur dispositif de formation. Les étudiants bénéficieront d'une acculturation aux TIC par l'usage et pourront également acquérir des compétences transversales. Les chercheurs développeront à cette occasion une meilleure connaissance des traces et de leur traitement.

Publications


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