Today, emotion is no longer a taboo subject, it is even at the heart of famous soft skills. But what is an emotion? How did the concept of emotional intelligence develop? What is its impact in training? Answers from Camille Besson, Educational Designer & Dorothée Cavignaux-Bros, Training Engineer & Doctor in Science of Education.   […]

Last Thursday, March 24th, I had the pleasure of attending the conference “The pleasure of learning in adult education” organised by the FFFOD and hosted by Dorothée Cavignaux-Bros, Training Engineer at IFCAM & PhD in Education & Training Science, and Jean Vanderspelden, administrator at the FFFOD & consultant at ITG Paris. A moment of reflection […]

Some consider that learning requires prior intention, while others consider that intention is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for learning. Intention, in the context of learning, can cover two aspects. Intention for oneself, when the subject sets out to acquire competencies, and intention for others, when the demand for development comes from a […]

Monday, October 18, 2021, 9:30 a.m., Salle Grainetier, Silvae, Montrouge. Two learners start a course. They know each other well and one says to the other: “I’m not worried about you, you’ll manage to understand and learn everything, you’re lucky, you’re intelligent and you’ve always had a gift for learning”. This fixated notion of intelligence […]

It is undeniable that the podcast is gaining in popularity. Everyday, 87% of French people listen to news in audio format(1). But can we learn from podcasts? Can we learn by walking down the street, without taking notes? In a world where productivity has become the watchword, podcasts are popular, particularly because they can be […]

In education, agency is the power of a learner to act on his or her learning and to be an actor. At IFCAM, we are convinced that a learner who constructs his or her own knowledge and therefore mental representations benefits from deeper learning, better memorization of information, strong commitment and more solid connections between […]