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==Digital mediated pedagogical innovation in the teaching and learning of French at the Moroccan university: The case of online pedagogical videos==
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Digital mediated pedagogical innovation in the teaching and
learning of French at the Moroccan university: The case of
online pedagogical videos
Nadia El Ouesdadi a, and Sara Rochdi b
a
University Mohammed First, FLSH, Oujda Morocco, Laboratory: CLHEN, Linguistics, Didactics and
Communication
b
University Mohammed First, FLSH, Oujda Morocco, Laboratory: CLHEN, Linguistics, Didactics and
Communication
Abstract
In recent years, the development of digital technology has transformed our way of life and
our habits in all areas. The speed of its evolution is disrupting some of our practices. Higher
education is a field where digital pedagogy has transformed the daily life of teachers and
students, especially in the teaching of French. The use of digital pedagogy is a pillar in the
transmission of knowledge and in particular in the design of learning devices.
To face the linguistic difficulties of the students, the Moroccan university called upon the
digital pedagogical innovation which plays a capital role in the implication of the student by
putting a whole of devices on line such as the MOOCs of the platform Maroc Université
Numérique, the Environnement Numérique du Travail, Moodle etc. These devices contain
different learning contents such as documents, podcasts and including educational videos.
The latter are perceived as a learning and communication medium to transfer knowledge.
Our contribution aims to answer our research question: what are the effects of the use of
online pedagogical video on the teaching-learning of the French language at the Moroccan
university?
To highlight the merits of this paper, we will first present a theoretical anchor, namely the
pedagogical innovation, the pedagogical video with its characteristics. Secondly, we will try
to study the use of a set of pedagogical videos put online in the teaching-learning of the
French language at the Moroccan university. Then we will present the results of an interview
with students in order to draw the effects of the use of pedagogical videos.
The results of our research show that instructional video has an effect on the motivation of
learners as well as on the improvement of their language performance. Nevertheless, its use is
generally restricted to the presentation of lectures.
Keywords 1
Digital Pedagogy, Innovation, French, Educational video, teaching learning.
1. Introduction
In recent years, the development of digital technology has transformed our way of life and our
habits in all areas. The speed of its evolution is disrupting some of our practices. Higher education is a
field where digital pedagogy has transformed the daily life of teachers and students, especially in the
teaching of French.
The use of digital pedagogy is a pillar in the transmission of knowledge and in particular in the
design of learning devices.
WTEK-2021: Workshop on Technological Innovations in Education and Knowledge Dissemination, May 01, 2021, Chennai, India.
EMAIL: Elouesdadi@gmail.com (Nadia El Ouesdadi)
ORCID: 0000-0001-7590-4598 (Nadia El Ouesdadi)
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To cope with the language difficulties of students, the Moroccan university has called on digital
pedagogical innovation cited in the book of the strategic vision 2015-2030: "Strengthen the
integration of educational technologies to improve the quality of learning, through the establishment
of a new national strategy, able to accompany and support innovations that promote the development
of institutions. "1] strengthen in the same sense by "the integration of digital media and interactive
tools in teaching acts and learning activities, research and innovation. ".
Pedagogical innovation plays a key role in the involvement of the student by putting a set of online
devices such as MOOCs of the Digital University Morocco platform, the Digital Work Environment,
Moodle etc. These devices contain different learning contents such as documents, podcasts and
including educational videos.
The latter are perceived as a learning and communication medium to transfer knowledge.
Our contribution aims to answer our research question:
- What are the effects of the use of online pedagogical video on the teaching-learning of the French
language at the Moroccan university?
To answer our research question, we have put forward two hypotheses, which we will confirm or
deny at the end of our research:
- Learning through online video makes learners active.
- Learners can improve their skills.
To highlight the validity of this paper, we will first present a theoretical background on
pedagogical innovation, the pedagogical video with its characteristics. Secondly, we will try to study
the use of a set of pedagogical videos put online in the teaching and learning of the French language
at the Moroccan university.
Then we will present the results of an interview with students in order to draw the effects of the use of
the pedagogical video.
2. Theoretical anchoring
For a few years, Moroccan universities have been using more and more the video pedagogical
support to ensure and innovate the teaching-learning practices of various disciplines whether it is in
face-to-face training, in hybrid or online.
In this part of the state of the art we will first see the meanings of the key concepts of our
contribution namely pedagogical innovation, pedagogical video and secondly, we will see the
characteristics of the pedagogical video.
2.1. What is innovation?
The word "innovation" appeared in France in the 13th century, and comes from the Latin
innovatio, from novus, new or novel (Cros, 1993) [2].
According to Cros, (1999) [3]. According to Cros, (1999) [3], "it is necessary to innovate, to show
initiative and creativity in a continuously changing environment. "The same author suggests that "to
innovate would be to do better, always better, in a different way, to offer something new, something
never seen before, something that would however be within our reach, that would calm our deepest
desires, and of which we would not dare to dream (or perhaps too much). "(Cros, 1993, p. 17).
The educational video
The video with its iconic and audiovisual content, has been introduced in higher education as a
learning and communication support, with the aim of transmitting knowledge, analyzing cases or
understanding a fact or a demonstration to get closer to the reality of a taught content.
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2.2. What is educational video?
The word video comes from the Latin word video which means "I see". It is a term that groups
together all the techniques that allow the visualization or recording of animated images accompanied
by sound, on an electronic medium.
In view of the definition, we conducted an online search for previous research on video-based
learning and found the work of Anderson et al. (Anderson, Reder, & Simon, 1996) [4] conducted in
elementary school classrooms following a television-based program showed that the use of video as a
complementary tool improved academic performance in reading, language arts, and math.
Another work by Karsenti et al (Attenoukon, Karsenti, & Gervais, 2013) [5], with 2712 students
aged 10 to 17, presents the benefits of ICT and video. Their study showed that the use of video in a
school situation improves students' ability to visualize complex phenomena and to memorize the
different phases of learning situations (Desparois & Lambert, 2014)[6].
In this sense the work of Wiman and Meierhenry[7] who, from studies in cognitive psychology
conducted in experimental situations of reception and memorization of information, found that
learners generally memorize:
10% of what they read
20 % of what they hear
30% of what they see
50% of what they see and hear.
Willmot of Loughborough University, et al[8] show that there is a measurable effect (correlation)
between the use in training of digital video and increased student motivation, improved learning
experience,
Several studies have also shown that video, in particular, can be a highly effective pedagogical
tool [9].
We will move on to the characteristics of educational video
2.3. Characteristics of Instructional Video
In her article entitled Sylvia Johnson [11] cited many characteristics of video-based learning. The
latter:
- It makes learning more accessible
- It promotes the use of microlearning
- It is very cost effective
- It allows for standardization of learning content
- Enriches the learning experience
- It allows learners to better absorb information
- It gives your learners a sense of responsibility
- It can be integrated into your blended training in a flipped classroom
- It can facilitate the memorization of knowledge
3. Methodology of the research
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Our methodology is based on a qualitative study containing, on the one hand, the collection of
data collected during our online observation of the devices conveyed by the videos broadcasted by the
Moroccan universities that we have chosen:
Rabat, Oujda, Agadir, Marrakech and Fez. And on the other hand of an interview addressed to the
students of these same faculties of French studies department of various Moroccan universities.
Results of the research
Our online survey revealed four modalities through which video-based learning teaching takes
place:
1. The teacher and students are in a virtual classroom in synchronous mode and share the video
using the screen sharing option
2. The teacher appears through a webcam and speaks to the students.
3. The teacher remains invisible and records only his screen and voice.
4. The professor appears in a classroom and records the course with the help of the university
cameraman.
3.1. First modality: Virtual Classroom in synchronous mode
The example of the Virtual Classroom (figure 1) is a communication course presented by the
teacher who appears visibly in front of his learners by means of the webcam. The teacher explains the
course and asks the learners to see the video that reinforces his explanation on the subject of drugs.
Figure 1: Broadcasting of a video by the professor during a synchronous course
Another example is a presentation given by students and during their presentation they presented a
video in the form of a summary that concluded and summarized the entire presentation (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Video broadcast from a student during a synchronous lecture
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Discussion
Our observation of the video in the virtual classroom used by the professor on the one hand and by
the students on the other allowed the learners to:
- Concentrate during the broadcast
- Focus their attention during the videoconference
- Interact with the teacher and with their classmates
- Carry out the tasks requested by the teacher
- Innovate classroom practices
- Motivate learners
3.2. Regarding the three modalities
We have made a survey in the form of an online observation and we have divided it in the table
below with the results and some examples
Length of Device
University Module The Procedure
the Video Used
History of Ideas 30 min
No
YouTube
Ibn ZOHR interaction
Phonetics 35 min
(FLSH AGADIR)
Methodology 17 min
The professor appears in a
No
Didactic 53 min classroom and records the YouTube
interaction
lecture with the help of the
university cameraman
Theater 40 min
Mohamed V
(FSE) Rabat No
YouTube
interaction
Syntax 1 hour
No
YouTube
interaction
Semantics 1h30m
er The teacher remains
Mohamed 1 No
Lexicology 35 min invisible and records only YouTube
(FLSH Oujda) interaction
his screen and his voice.
Syntax 40 min
Grammar 30 min No
Caddi Ayad YouTube
Pragmatic 45 min interaction
(FLSH de
Marrakech) Introduction to The teacher remains visible
50 min and records his screen and
linguistics Site de No
voice.
l’université interaction
Category of the
SIDI ben Abdallah 1h30m
Story
(FLSH FES) YouTube No
5
19th century interaction
50 min
poetry
Intercultural 35 min
The table above shows the distribution of a set of modules of the French studies program in six
faculties of arts and humanities in: Rabat, Oujda, Agadir, Marrakech and Fes.
The pedagogical videos are broadcast on the YouTube device of each university. The duration of the
videos varies between 17 minutes and one hour and thirty minutes. In each video, the teacher speaks
alone, since he is alone in the recording location, and only after the broadcast do the learners interact
using the commentary option. See figures 3, 4 and 5.
Some examples
Figure 3: The teacher appears and explains the lesson
Figure 4: Video broadcast by the FLSH Agadir
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Figure 5: Video Broadcast by the professor of the FLSH Fes
4. Results and Discussion
As we can see in the figures above (3, 4 and 5): the teacher records before the course and then
broadcasts it on the university's YouTube channel. We notice that this learning modality does not
allow the learner to be active and to interact directly with the teacher because it is only after the
broadcasting of the videos where the learner could write a comment. The latter appears in front of
everyone but the teacher's feedback remains absent.
The use of online videos broadcasted on YouTube allows the learner to:
- Review the course (the number of views is high)
- Do external research
- Follow the course at their own pace (accessibility)
- Stop and start again
- Save time etc.
5. Interview
The interview we conducted is addressed to students of French language department of several
Moroccan universities. We interviewed 3 students through the online device: Google meet
Our interview is spread over three questions:
The first question
1. What did teaching through online video learning offer you compared to lectures in the
lecture hall or in the classroom?
Testimony of Abdessamad from Eljadia
"First of all, learning by video makes the course accessible to all students, even those who could not
attend the classes due to technical problems, can consult them and review them as many times as their
understanding requires. Secondly, the fact of hosting the courses in a platform by adopting distance
learning, will create a powerful digital library for each university in which it presents its training in
other words it allows us to gradually acquire a form of control over ourselves and our lives. "
The second question
2. Are you motivated by teaching and learning via online video? Explain how?
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Testimony of Manal from Oujda
"Yes, I find learning via online educational video much better than face-to-face learning because
distance learning allows me to stay focused on my studies by staying at home since attendance at the
school is no longer mandatory so I will have control and it is up to me to manage my daily sessions.
In addition, these videos are accessible through any device and at any time and when I can not
understand a part of the course, I can search the internet for a better explanation all this allows me to
evolve the student researcher in me. "Manal from Oujda
And the third question
3. What are your suggestions for improving E/A via the videos provided by your online
teachers?
Testimony of Safa from Agadir
“I would like the content to be much more interactive than before and to look for an audiovisual
coherence that will simplify things in the most complicated cases, for example they can make
interactive videos with integrated quizzes, interactive presentations with texts, audios, videos and
more. Drag and drop Memory games”
5.1. Discussion
From the students' testimonies we have retained four elements: the students are
- Motivated
- Active
- Autonomous
- Involved
- As well as learning through video:
- Allows for the creation of a digital library;
- Is presented in multiple formats;
- Makes the course accessible;
- Allows for manipulation (play, pause, rewind etc.)
6. Conclusion
In conclusion, we found that the use of instructional video in the teaching-learning process of
French studies at the Moroccan university has important effects on the learner's curriculum insofar as
the instructional video allows the learner to: recapitulate, arouse his curiosity, capture his attention,
stimulate his creativity, memorize, motivate, Enrich learning, Revise, and Change the pace of learning
of the learner/
In order to make students active, we recommend the use of interactive software, subtitles, and to
design short, concise videos of good quality while optimizing the weight of the video.
7. References
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France.
[3] Cros, F. (1999). L'innovation en éducation et en formation dans tous ses sens. Recherche et
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[4] Anderson, J. R., Reder, L. M., & Simon, H. A. (1996). Situated learning and education.
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