Guest of "La France bouge" on Europe 1, Monday, Michel Reverchon-Billot returned to the innovations carried by the National Center for distance learning.
The Director General of Cned defends tools intended to strengthen the efficiency of schoolwork outside the physical classroom, in particular through artificial intelligence.
INTERVIEW
If there is one sector that has benefited from the upheavals caused by the coronavirus crisis, it is indeed that of distance education.
Closed establishments, courses provided by videoconference, new examination methods… So many changes that the National Center for Distance Learning (Cned) has been able to support with its own resources.
Some of them have experienced rapid development as a result of this health crisis.
Guest of
La France bouge
, the director general of the structure, Michel Reverchon-Billot, addressed the question of these new kind of tools, for a school environment that is just as much.
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With the Covid-19 crisis, the Cned saw that it "needed to have more flexible and agile things, which add innovation" to the principle of distance education.
"For example, we are working on digital companions who help students with their homework."
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This is the case for "Jules and Maya, little digital companions who are already ready, available and free for all college students", assures the head of Cned about this resource which is set to develop.
Launched in January 2019 as part of the "Homework" program, the system allows college students to have a personalized homework experience from home, in several subjects, including history and geography since April 2020, via the Environment digital work (ENT) of their college, the DevoirsFaits.fr site and a dedicated application.
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Artificial intelligence applied to homework is not the only area in which Cned is banking.
The structure is also working on "solutions that allow distance learning or oral training, or remote experimentation solutions. We are in the process of imagining new things" that are "under development", says Michel Reverchon-Billot.
With hybrid arrangements between in-school and distance learning courses, these arrangements should not be obsolete anytime soon.
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below: