Pédagogies et publics des formations à distance. Quelques touches historiques

Abstract

This paper refers to a presentation given by Geneviève Jacquinot on “History of educational forms in distance and open learning” in a seminar held by the Gehfa (« Groupe d’études - histoire de la formation des adultes » - Study group - history of adult education) in 2013. It essentially aims at illustrating what she mentioned on this occasion about learners and how they deal with these modes of learning from an educational and technological point of view. In this perspective, this paper relies on studies and/or researches that I carried out about the uses and users of media based learning systems. Excerpts, retrieved from interviews with learners conducted in this context and only informally published till now, support some ideas submitted in the paper, the main purpose of it being to bring a few lights on how various distance teaching models are perceived by learners, of whom I have here chosen to be the spokeswoman.

Keywords

• open and distance learning
• learners’ points of view
• educational methods
• educational technologies
• media based learning systems