Mutation douce de l'enseignant en concepteur-tuteur dans des activités d'apprentissage totalement à distance. Communication présentée au Colloque TICE Méditérannée, Nice

Experts in education and communication technology cannot speak about distance learning
without calling up the new roles it springs up and the new relationships it generates. Its detractors
claim that, under these new conditions, this kind of learning requires significant and expansive means unlike a more classical one. Instead of giving up in front of such disheartening elements, the authors have been trying to measure how far a simple distance learning system (i.e. with little human, hardware and software means) can be implemented. In that way, they have been creating a learning environment basically based on a mixture of individual and collaborative works. Owing to both this mixture and the organization structure, the students can reach the fixed learning goals.
Through these processes, they try to isolate practices, learners or teaching staff should be inspired by. They should, in that way, evolve slightly from a classical context to the design of learning scripts including efficient tutoring in a distance context. The course described in this paper is called “Analysis of distance learning environments”. The public consists of adults having enrolled for a DES in Education and Training Technology. To conduct this experiment, the authors have been setting themselves some rules and constraints in order to derive a general process that might be applied to various situations. These rules and constraints are very close to the usual learner’s working constraints.
Recommendations focus on practices including careful preparation, coordination techniques betweenteachers and learner’s initiation into reflexivity.