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Published April 26, 2021

Respecting Copyright in Distance Education

Catherine Rhéaume Editor, Profweb

<p>Can a film be shown during a synchronous activity? Can you distribute photocopies of a book on Moodle or LÉA? It is easy to get lost in all the considerations associated with copyright in education, especially when it comes to distance learning. This article aims to provide some information to college teachers about their obligations and options for reproducing or distributing content.</p>

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Published November 1, 2020

Working as a Team at a Distance (part 1). Teams: a Single Ecosystem Bringing Together All Collaborative Functions

Caroline Demers Teacher, Cégep Garneau
Andy Van Drom Editor, Profweb

Teamwork is often not easy for college students. In order to truly collaborate, rather than simply separate the work to be done, students need to form a cohesive and committed team. This is difficult enough when students are in the same room, but in a distance or hybrid learning environment, they are separated from each other and often don't know how to move forward effectively.

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Published March 17, 2020

Teaching Students to Manage Projects with ProjectLibre

Ryan W. Moon Editor, Profweb

ProjectLibre is an open source software that is useful for creating project schedules. Michel Bélanger, a teacher at the Collège Montmorency, and many of his colleagues use ProjectLibre for several of their courses in the Civil Engineering Technology program. He uses the software to show students how to create a project schedule by sequencing and ordering tasks with the objective of evaluating the time and cost to run the project. I had the opportunity to discuss this approach with Michel at the beginning of the Winter 2020 semester.

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ICT Profile for College Students

The ICT Profile for College Students is composed of skills for researching, processing and presenting information. Two other skills can be added: inviting students to work in a network and to use ICTs efficiently and responsibly. These skills are essential to both college and university studies, as well as in the labour market. (Download the ICT Profile for College Students Leaflet - PDF Format).

This section of Profweb offers a set of resources that support the mastering of skills for the ICT Profile for College Students in courses and programs of study. Enjoy exploring it!

The ICT Profile Information, methodological and cognitive skills: 1 Search for information, 2 Process information, 3 Present information, 4 Working in a Network and 5 Use ICTs in an efficient and responsible manner

ICT Profile for College Students

Information, Methodological and Cognitive Skills

  1. 1

    Search for Information

    The mastering of informational skills is a must. Students have access, anywhere and at all times, to a vast quantity of information. And in a near future, there will be even more information, and without any doubt, more efficient ways to access it.

    Searching for information is a very pertinent, frequent and even essential activity in all programs of study. Even when search tools and requirements differ from one program to another, the process remains the same.

    This skill allows students to efficiently find, choose and collect relevant and quality information when it comes to processing and achieving a production. The proposed approach involves planning the research, choosing efficient strategies, evaluating the quality of information and methodically organizing of the documents found.

  2. 2

    Process Information

    We complain when students copy information word for word into their work. We can see that they find it difficult to integrate their material and to understand complex or abstract concepts. In the researching-processing-presenting process, the way the information is processed is often biased or neglected. This is the difference between a surface and an in-depth analysis. The act of processing the information permits the search to be refined. In addition, the result of processing information this way is what forms the first step in preparing an adequate presentation of the results of the completed work.

    This skill is essential for students as it allows them to deal with all of the information available to them and to learn intellectual rigour. Students who know how to process information can better identify relevant information, use in-depth analysis and visualize data, ideas and concepts important for the work to accomplish. It is therefore one way of exploring a subject more deeply, of understanding content and of supporting a rigorous intellectual process. Processing information is in fact the pivot of a problem-resolution process.

  3. 3

    Present Information

    Many academic assignments require activities where students are asked to present information: they share their research results, their projects’ progress, their creations or results of their work, using a variety of tools that are both pertinent and stimulating.

    This task supports students in completing their assignment. This proposed approach is generic and is presented in four steps: planning the presentation, carrying out its production, highlighting and transmission of the information. This applies to all types of presentations, whether an assignment done with a word processor, a slide show, a video or audio clip, an online publication or image or any other type of presentation, the steps are the same for all.

  4. 4

    Working in a Network

  5. 5

    Use ICTs in an Efficient and Responsible Manner

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    Stephen Bryce wrote September 20, 2021 at 12:14 PM

    The link to the English version of the leaflet in pdf does not work...