Projects ©Learning Planet Institute
Tuyêt Trâm Dang Ngoc, a teacher-researcher in computer science at the ETIS laboratory at CY Cergy Paris Université, and CY's project manager for educational diversification, talks to us about her experience with the Projects du Learning Planet Institute.
More and more universities are opting to use Projects, platform developed by the Digital Ecosystems team at Learning Planet Institute. So CY Cergy Paris Université launched a training program in 2021 that has enabled some 1,000 students to share their knowledge and experience. 200 projects.
For the teacher-researcher, Tuyêt Trâm Dang Ngoc, the platform has the merit of developing a culture of project-based learning, getting students more involved and enhancing the value of their work. Meet us.
How do you use Projects?
Tuyêt Trâm Dang Ngoc: As part of a teaching unit (UE) called CATI. L’UE CATI is an apprenticeship program that runs over the three years of undergraduate courses offered by CY Cergy Paris Université's Institute of Science and Technology. Each year, students from 8 courses (Biology, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geosciences, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science) are mixed together in interdisciplinary groups. This represents a total of 1,600 students from 3 years of undergraduate studies, divided into 250 interdisciplinary groups.
And it is in this context that the Projects platform is a very important tool for our teaching team, which is itself interdisciplinary.
What are the direct benefits of the platform for your teaching team?
In view of the large number of projects submitted, the platform provides teaching teams with a global vision projects, evidence of individual student involvement (or lack of it), have concrete traces of their productions, a history. The platform is a means of enhance the value of students, motivate them and subsequent promotions. Last but not least, it allows you to project-based funding.
For the teaching team and tutors, Projects gives them a quick overview of the progress of group projects via student blogs.
What are the benefits for students? How easy is it to get started?
Yes, it's a tool motivating, visual and easy to use for professional results. It's a way of make their work more concrete, and a form of valorization of their production.
As students don't see much of each other because of their schedules - and even less of each other face-to-face - Projects is ideal because it's a collaborative tool that lets us organize and document everything.
“Motivating a thousand and a half students to collaborate on projects throughout the year with a professional follow-up and visual: it's possible with Projects!”
And how does Projects adapt to new ways of teaching?
The platform is ideally suited to project-based learning and collaborative work. Another strong lever is that it allows students to personalize their production. The visuals and personalization help students avoid getting discouraged by an abstruse tool and focus on the learning itself.
For the teaching team, it's a fast, responsive tool. Projects complements the tools used in competency-based approaches (such as portfolios), and makes it possible to collect and present evidence of students“ skills development. The platform makes it possible to highlight students” training-related skills, while developing cross-disciplinary and behavioral skills (soft skills).
In a nutshell, Projects is a tool adapted to new teaching practices: the platform enables project-based learning, a skills-based approach, collaborative working, personalized learning and the development of cross-disciplinary skills.. By 2022, 2,400 students on the same campus will have access to this tool.
IN BRIEF
► The Digital Ecosystems team creates platforms designed to transform education and foster collaborative intelligence within organizations.
► Its tools mobilize artificial and collective intelligence, in the service of sustainable development objectives.
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Thanks to Tuyêt Trâm Dang Ngoc for answering our questions!
