Télé-Université, l’université à distance, UQAM
The research team is hosted at the Canada Research Chair on Instructional and Cognitive Engineering (CICE), within the LICEF-CIRTA research center at Télé-université, the Distance University of Quebec covering the connexions with French initiatives and repositories as well as leading the research activities.
Dr. Gilbert Paquette, Director and Chair at LICEF, Téluq
Gilbert Paquette holds a Ph.D from the Université du Maine ( FRANCE) in Artificial Intelligence and Education. Researcher at the Center for Interuniversity Research on Telelearning Applications, (CIRTA-LICEF) he has founded in 1992, Gilbert Paquette holds a Canada research chair in knowledge-based instructional engineering, acts as the Scientific Director of the LORNET Canadian research network and is a professor at Télé-université du Québec in Montreal.
He has pioneered strategic projects in the field of knowledge-based systems, instructional engineering and distance education. Recent publications (2002) include three books, on Instructional Engineering for Network Environments and Knowledge and Competency Modeling. He has given invited conferences in many parts of the world and sits on the scientific committee for six Journals, three in France, one in the US and two in Canada. He has also founded two companies, and has acted as Minister for Science and Technology in the Quebec Government (1982-1984).
Dr. Karin Lundgren-Cayrol, Assistant Professor and executive researcher
She is the contact person for the Q4R Project karin.lundgren@licef.teluq.uqam.ca
Karin holds a Ph.D in Educational Technology (1996) specializing in online collaborative learning, interoperability standards for e-Learning and quality assurance strategies to increase reuse of e-Learning resources. She has participated in provincial (Normétic), national (CanCore; FuturEd Canada's e-Learning Quality Guidelines) and European (UNFOLD) initiatives to implement international interoperability standards. She collaborated in the conception of the Learning Resource Management System called the PALOMA Repository, developed at LICEF. She has also collaborated in the elaboration of the MISA Learning System Engineering Method as well as the specification of the MOT+LD editor (www.idld.org ) dedicated to authoring IMS Learning Design compatible Units of Learning. She is presently researching and modeling processes by which it is possible to increase quality for e-Learning materials. She is the author and co-author of numerous book-chapters, articles and conference papers as well as the co-author of a book (Apprentissage collaboratif à distance: Pour comprendre et concevoir les environnements d’apprentissage virtuels, available at www.puq.ca)
Isabelle Savard, Ph.D candidate and Q4R Research Assistant, Cognitive Informatics, TELUQ-UQAM, Montreal, Canada.
Isabelle completed her Master’s degree in Educational Technology at Laval University, Quebec, Canada in 1996. Since her graduation, her experience includes teaching in Africa for three years, working as an instructional designer in Canada and doing her doctoral internship at the University of Mauritius as an instructional designer observing and analyzing instructional design processes at the university.
She won the first prize of the 2006 I2LOR student poster competition with her ideas on how to incorporate cultural diversity factors into the instructional design process. Her main research interests are Cultural Diversity, Instructional Design and Reuse of Learning Objects.
She has been working as a research assistant in the LORNET Theme 6.3 Innovative Instructional Design Models for the past 3 years. She is the author and co-author of several articles.
Project Manager
Suzanne Lapointe - palomawebinfo@licef.teluq.uqam.ca
Suzanne is the contact person for the PALOMA Web application, which is used in 9 of Quebec’s French speaking higher education institutions. She is also the coordinator of the Canadian French and Acadian Portal project, which federates about 40,000 resources among them.
She has participated in the CanCore and the Normetic Metadata Initiative to elaborate guidelines for the Canadian Metadata Profile and the French Québec Metadata Profile, both based on IEEE–LOM. Moreover, she is the vice-president of communication for the GTN-Quebec and a member of IMS GLC Learning Technology Advisory Council (LTAC).
Website developpers
Juli Aubin, Media Analyst and Graphical Designer
Juli holds a Master’s degree in Media Design and has been working as a media specialist and designer in educational contexts for over a decade. She has participated in most of LICEF’s major projects, such as for example Explora Learning Management System, the eduSource Repository project, the IDLD (Implementation and Deployement of the IMS Learning Design Specification), the PALOMA Web Application, LORNET, all having a repository integrated.
- Alain Tetrault, Programmer
- Said Serik, Q4R Repository Technical Support
Concordia University
The Concordia University team is hosted by the Centre for the Study of Classroom Processes and will cover the connexions with the English Canada initiatives and repositories as well as pedagogical aspects of this project.
Contact person: edward.bethel@licef.teluq.uqam.ca
Dr. Phil Abrami, Director of CSCP
Philip C. Abrami is professor, research chair, and director of the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP), a provincially funded and internationally recognized research centre of excellence. The CSLP conducts a variety of research distributed among eight theme areas and is also actively involved in numerous knowledge mobilization activities including the development and dissemination of evidence-based educational software, which promote essential educational skills and competencies in such areas as early literacy, digital portfolios, and information literacy. He is especially interested in the application of the cognitive and motivational sciences to learning designs especially from the end-user. perspective.
Edward Clement Bethel is PhD Student at the Department of Educational Technology, Concordia University. He is also and Q4R Research Assistant and the coordinator of the English Canadian Network of Repositories.
His professional experience includes being a secondary school Vice Principal in Nassau for 6 years and the champion implementer of computer applications in the school. He participated in the IDLD project and is familiar with graphical modeling techniques and IMS Learning Design concepts and elements. He is also a member of the Center for the Study of Classroom Processes at Concordia University and the author and co-author of several articles.
His research interests are mainly:
• Digital Cultural Heritage preservation and learning,
• Digital cultural learning objects,
• Ubiquitous computing in K-12,
• Learning Design and participatory design of learning,
• Teacher development and teacher evaluation.