Les étudiants entre cours magistraux et usage des TIC

Abstract

This paper explores students’ opinions towards lectures and other university learning modes in regard with the use of digital tools. It is based on a survey conducted between 2012 and 2014 with 1640 students who registered for the first time at the University of Picardie Jules Verne where they attend face-to-face lectures and tutorials in various disciplines as well as preparing for the Computer and Internet Certificate (C2i) through blended learningIt first presents the ways in which students use digital tools in their daily life and for studies. It examines the preferences that they express between lectures on campus, blended and online learning and it develops their points of view on these various teaching methods. Then, it deals with the students’ reactions to the introduction of digital or audiovisual resources during face-to face lectures and with factors (gender, previous school experience) which influence their feelings about the use of digital tools for learning. Finally, it concludes that most of those who had been questioned appreciate the use of technology during lectures as a means to make teaching more dynamic. It also points out that online technology satisfy students’ need to access content at any moment. However, they still reveal a strong attachment for lectures as well as for tutorials, which give them the opportunity to rub shoulders with teachers and other students and to directly interact with them.

Keywords

• university teaching and learning
• lecture
• blended learning
• online learning
• use of educational technology
• students’ points of view