Utiliser les plateformes interactives en classe de FOS. Le cas de la plateforme Edmodo et les possibilités d’interaction dans le processus d’(auto)évaluation

Abstract

One of the constant preoccupations of teachers is to look for new ways to teach and new ways to render the students’ activity more effective, to reduce routine and to stimulate the students’ involvement in the class activities. Therefore, the teacher uses ICT tools.Lately we find online a lot of educational instruments and platforms and sometimes it is difficult to choose from all these, as their purpose is to complete the classroom activities and not to replace them. By using the interactive platform Edmodo, the teacher can take several advantages: a permanent communication with the students by means of posts or polls, sharing teaching materials for the course or seminar (documents, texts, PowerPoints, audio-video materials, web links etc.) or assignments with a deadline which can be graded and feed-backed online. What we found the most interesting in the case of this platform is the fact that we can do an evaluation (and also a self-evaluation at the same time) of the acquired knowledge after each course or after a series of courses by means of quizzes (multiple choice, true-false, short answer, fill in the blanks, matching), which can be automatically corrected on the platform itself

Keywords

• Edmodo
• (self)evaluation
• French for Specific Purposes
• interactive exercises
• collaborative work