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Record W2028272067 · doi:10.4000/questionsvives.536

Les Formations ouvertes à distance (FOAD) : quelle contribution au développement de professionnels qualifiés en Afrique ?

2010· article· fr· W2028272067 on OpenAlexaff
Thierry Karsenti, Simon Collin

Bibliographic record

VenueQuestions vives recherches en éducation · 2010
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInformation Technology and Learning
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à MontréalNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesPolitical sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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Cet article vise à présenter les résultats d’une étude longitudinale de trois ans (2007-2010) portant sur les formations ouvertes à distance (FOAD) offertes par l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). Il se propose de dresser un portrait des FOAD en Afrique afin de mieux comprendre son efficacité pour le développement des professionnels africains. Dans le cadre de cet article, nous nous concentrerons sur les résultats de la deuxième année de notre recherche obtenus au moyen d’analyses statistiques et qualitatives issues de questionnaires en ligne ayant rejoint 626 répondants. Les résultats indiquent que la motivation des apprenants à suivre une FOAD est à envisager dans la perspective d’une formation continue leur permettant de développer leurs compétences professionnelles. Les difficultés rencontrées sont de plusieurs ordres (techniques, pédagogiques et infra-structurelles) mais les FOAD génèrent malgré tout un haut degré de satisfaction et de réels bénéfices chez les participants interrogés. À la lumière de ces résultats, nous serons en mesure de conclure sur la contribution et les limites actuelles des FOAD dans le contexte socioculturel africain.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.019
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.081
Threshold uncertainty score0.162

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.019
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.003
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.417
Teacher spread0.352 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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