A Fruitful Meeting of a Pedagogical Method and a Collaborative Platform

This publication describes the work done to allow the instrumentation of a pedagogical method named MAETIC on a collaborative tailorable platform named CooLDA. MAETIC facilitates the apprenticeship of professional skills in universities thanks to a collaborative project approach. This method has been described and modeled according to the CooLDA meta model. The resulting platform has been experimented during year 2007-2008. This article presents the scientific context of this work, the CooLDA platform and its underlying activity model, the MAETIC pedagogical method and the various associated to it students activities.