Using pedagogical hypermedias in real situation: Experiments results

Several efforts are being made to have the traditional pedagogy enhanced, especially for education in university, where the pedagogical aspects have been neglected for a long time [Donnay, Romainville, 1996]. Whereas tutoring systems are one of the means offered to invent original ways of teaching, their introduction remains marginal. In order to better understand the reasons of this lack we have been doing several experiments for one year. These experiments involve students in real situations, introducing multimedia supports and transforming the traditional pedagogical processes. The purpose was in each case to identify the role that multimedia supports can fulfill, the prerequisites for their correct use, the changes introduced in the pedagogical process, etc. This paper describes these experiments, along with some observations and propositions.