Le nouveau dispositif ” eZoomBook ” : perspectives pédagogiques

“eZoomBook” is a project-based pedagogy and an associated platform for the structuring and development of multi-scale documentation: the platform allows for the creation of interactive multiple scale documents through a Wiki-like collaborative system of construction. The educational perspectives of eZoomBook are highlighted by three experiments carried out at Ecole Centrale de Nantes: the first in the context of a literature course, the second in the context of a “reading club” and the third in the context of an English class with engineering students in an apprenticeship programme. This paper analyzes the value proposition of the eZoomBook platform which allows us to implement an innovative pedagogy made possible by the eZoomBook tools and to create a library of crowd-sourced reading material called eZoomBooks. The eZoomBook project-based pedagogy leads us to reflect on blended learning as well as the balance between e-learning/classroom learning and collaborative/individual work. Moving beyond the prototype, the fully-functional eZoomBook platform will be accessible to all, at the end of 2013. This opens new perspectives for linking our new eZoomBook tool with the range of ICT in Education tools (Intranet, blogs, etc.) as well as existing open-learning platforms.