Collaborative e-learning display for acquiring professional skills

International audienceThis contribution states with designing collaborative tools for acquiring professional skills. A distanced e-learning display has been designed with international partners to teach computer graphics sciences in a master degree. The display is named VCIEL for On Line Visualization and Designing in Computer. Stu-dents might come and live in every country of the world. One of the goals is to allow students to integrate professional know-how with the aim of finding an employment after graduation. Regarding computer supported collaborative work, cognitive sciences and ergonomics researches, the pedagogical e-learning-project team chose to design an external representation with several functionalities. Two tools were thought to support student-tutors-companies collaborative activities in the whole task of managing project while being tutored and evaluated. The chosen open source platform is SPIRAL. Design has been made following ergonomical methodology testing subjects-future learners and tutors on displays relevance