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The evolution of the media and the Internet in education today is an unquestionable reality. At the university level, the use of Web 2.0 tools has become increasingly visible in the new resources that professors have been incorporating both into the classroom and into their research, reinforcing the methodological renewal that the implementation of the EHEA has demanded. The aim of this article is to introduce DIPRO 2.0, an educational social network for university professors to develop their training in the area of personal learning environments through collaborative learning and production of knowledge.

Keywords: Networks, University professor, University, Web, Internet Mass media, Personal learning environments, Web 2.0 tools

MOOCs (massive open online course) is a disruptive innovation and a current buzzword in higher education. However, the discussion of MOOCs is disparate, fragmented, and distributed among different outlets. Systematic, extensively published research on MOOCs is unavailable. This paper adopts a novel method called blog mining to analyze MOOCs. The findings indicate, while MOOCs have benefitted learners, providers, and faculty who develop and teach MOOCs, challenges still exist, such as questionable course quality, high dropout rate, unavailable course credits, ineffective assessments, complex copyright, and limited hardware. Future research should explore the position of MOOCs and how it can be sustained.

Keywords: MOOC, MOOCs, Online learning, blog mining

It has become increasingly important, in our information society, to ensure that students have acquired the appropriate information competencies. However, several universities have too often limited these skills to the more classic models of these competencies. Such is the case of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL 2000), that does not fully exploit the tools and resources of Web 2.0 with which students are already familiar. This article presents and critically analyses the traditional models with a view to propose a new and improved model of enhanced information competencies. The authors demonstrated how their model combines the strengths of the traditional models developed by library and information sciences with the advantages and challenges of Web 2.0.

Created in the 1960s, the Petite Bibliothèque Ronde (formerly known as Joie par les livres) is a unique French children's library. Since the 1990s, and more so since 2000, the library is committed to the numeric format. In 2011, the challenge for the library is to build a numeric environment that takes into accounts the needs and habits of children born in the numeric age. In doing so, we had to rethink how multimedia spaces are designed and to imagine the future of the children's library.

The museums' interest for using information technologies in the transmission of cultural heritage can no longer be denied. Although the motivations and advantages for museums to follow the digital trend are now well known—visibility, attractiveness, accessibility, etc.—the homogeneity of the practices identified among many institutions bring into light the true extent of the transformations induced by the introduction of digital technologies in museums. The issue now, from knowing “why” becomes “how” and it remains more or less an unknown variable when museum culture meets technology. How can we efficiently fill in the digital space ? How can we organize the content of a museum in a digital format and maintain its significance while keeping the public interested and involved ? With that in mind, this article examines in detail three aspects of digital expography : the mechanisms and the interface, the exposer's perception regarding technologies and processing of the content, and finally the true needs of the public and their ways of viewing these digital collections.

In this article, Laetitia Le Clech gives an overview of the different issues and particularities which come into play in the conservation of geographic archives. In addition to maps, these include photographs and images as well as certain studies of terrain. She first presents several examples of the processing of cartographic documents in different places, and discusses the challenges posed by these documents. Geographic archives have many uses in the areas of history and geopolitics and in the development of government policies. The author reviews and illustrates each of these uses with examples. She then gives an overview of the conservation of cartographic documents in the digital era. As with other types of archives, this context has its own set of questions and new practices, including digitization for preservation and communication, and also the issues of obsolescence and the establishment of new norms. The author finishes her text with a presentation of diverse initiatives for communication and document creation which are presented by the new possibilities offered by digitization. She also alerts us again certain abuses and promotes a strong framework, the better to highlight these special documents.

This paper proposes to re-orient cyber defamation analysis towards a Civilian approach, whose hallmark flexibility and adaptability lends itself particularly well to the digital age. Indeed, harnessing the ordinary rules of negligence, and—in principle—foregoing defences, the Civilian construction is chiefly interested in the contextual reasonableness of the impugned expression (rather than in its truth or falsity strictly speaking), in contradistinction to its somewhat categorical Common Law counterpart. It is therefore recommended that defamation law evolve towards a “negligence standard” in common law parlance. Plainly put, this would require the plaintiff to make a showing of the contextual unreasonableness of impugned speech, an analysis which subsumes truthfulness and obviates the need for defences, this comporting with constitutional imperatives.Moreover and compounding the importance of revisiting the matter, “in a world where boundaries are porous and shifting” — and data is global, a cyber-publication in one jurisdiction may be read and reposted anywhere in the world, thereby potentially causing reputational harm transcending traditional or national parameters. Therefore, enforcing rights flowing from conduct originating outside of Canada increasingly preoccupies our courts who are gradually fearful of losing the ability to enforce local norms and policy or rectify domestically felt harm originating elsewhere. This preoccupation with “judicial helplessness” in Internet cases is evidenced by the notably liberalized jurisdiction test in Goldhar and Black inter alia and by two landmark cyber jurisdiction oriented cases handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2017 alone. It is therefore essential to at least summarily address the jurisdiction question—if we are to have a true contextual understanding of cyber defamation as recommended herein.

Web 2.0 tools can meet the needs of research teams wishing to maximize information flow and collaboration. This article presents the results of a needs analysis that was completed as the first step of a research and development study on this topic. After a body of Web 2.0 tools were identified, a questionnaire was sent to a sample of 172 subjects. The analysis reveals that the distinction between the different segments of the respondents is slight, and that they use a number of communication, management and networking tools, but much fewer recording tools or training and/or information organizing/structuring tools. The subjects express interest in receiving information about Web 2.0 tools and a preference for autonomous online training.

Keywords: analyse de besoins, formation, Web 2.0, travail de recherche, design pédagogique, needs analysis, training, Web 2.0, research work, pedagogical design, análisis de las necesidades, formación, Web 2.0, trabajo de investigación, diseño pedagógico

The study focuses on the uses of ICT by preservice and practicing teachers. Taking into account the Raby's model (2004), data show that the personal and professional uses by preservice teachers, regardless of their year of training, are similar to those of practicing teachers. Besides, a progressive increase in use from students to teachers is noted. However, only the latter reports pedagogical uses that fall within the appropriation phase, which means common activities in an active and meaningful learning environment. Avenues to improve initial training are proposed.

Keywords: Utilisations, TIC, enseignants, étudiants en formation initiale, Uses, ICT, teachers, preservice teachers

This article focuses on how a game-informed culture in public school math classes sustained interaction, cooperation, and empowered meaning making when COVID-19 mandates closed school buildings and education went fully online. More specifically, the game-informed learning environment supported the students’ development and discussion of their multimodal numeracies, and the highlighted activity reveals how the generation of math memes can foster students’ engagement in creative and empowered practices. Underscored throughout this article is the importance to embrace the expansiveness of numeracies in order to recognize, value, and support students’ meaning making.

Keywords: coopertition, game-informed, math memes, numeracies