Lecturer and teacher in labor law at the University and in business schools since 2013, Bastien Feron founded the e-learning content platform 101formateurs.com in 2014.

As a user of the ExperQuiz platform since 2018/2019, Bastien Feron has built up a large library of e-learning modules with which he develops training courses that can be adapted dynamically to each student’s level of knowledge. This pedagogical content is available to universities and schools which then offer it as an e-learning service to their students.

Why did you decide to work with ExperQuiz?

In 2014, I created the first platform to develop e-learning content. However, not being a technician, I was in charge of the technical part without having the necessary skills. It generated countless bugs. I started looking for a solution that would allow me to achieve my pedagogical goals, to offload this technical part while remaining financially competitive because I am addressing an academic audience. I chose the ExperQuiz solution. The functional scope ideally covered my needs and I found the technical team great and very attentive to my requests. The possibilities of the platform are constantly evolving, and above all, there are no more bugs.

When you are a freelancer, it is very important to be able to count on a reliable technical solution.

What were your educational goals?

I wanted to develop training courses, made up of modules and questionnaires, which dynamically adapt to the pace of each student's knowledge acquisition. A student who answers correctly will be assigned a reduced questionnaire protocol while a student who faces more difficulties will be subjected to more questionnaires because the platform will automatically offer him additional modules and questionnaires, presenting the topic of the course from other angles so that he can reinforce his level and progress. And it is particularly this dimension of adaptive learning that attracted me towards ExperQuiz.

This is a feature that is hard to find in competing products and when it exists, it is often complicated to implement or else proposed at prices which are simply incompatible with the budget of master’s degree managers. On the other hand, the ExperQuiz solution offers a quality/price ratio that is perfectly in line with the needs of university structures and business schools which allows me to be able to offer them this service.

How has the ExperQuiz solution facilitated your work?

needs that we may not have thought of at first glance, but which will nevertheless make our lives much easier during the design of the modules. For example, it is possible to import in a single operation a whole set of questions from a Word or Excel file which saves me time and facilitates collaboration with other teachers because they do not need to be trained to use the platform. For the question designer, the Feedback option is also very interesting. The testers can comment on each question and the designer can then retrieve all the feedback so that, in two clicks, you have your work program with the list of questions to review.

ExperQuiz thus offers the possibility of capitalizing on expertise and improving its content

was, therefore, to identify the questionnaires that needed to be perfected first. To do this, I set up ExperQuiz so that the same satisfaction survey appears at the end of each activity. With the results of these surveys, I was able to target the modules to work on as a priority. To collect the students' feedback, there is also the possibility to insert hyperlinks that allow them to interact with other applications. This enriches our exchanges, allows me to make the questions more reliable and to develop the content from one year to the next. The "Quality" function is also interesting for this: when you have a sufficiently large number of students who have answered questions, you have access to statistics and can identify in one click the questions that are not reliable.

How is your training now more effective?

The goal is to work on the return to error, which is one of the pillars of memorization and learning. The questions allow this return on error and this is what I am automating, i.e. proposing variations of questions on a subject that has caused problems for the student. The ExperQuiz solution is interesting because it allows me to automate this help by adapting to a mass audience. If the volume of questions grows proportionally, my model will suffocate itself. So, I try to mutualize students’ questions which are often quite repetitive and standard. For example, I have made sure that, when a student asks practical questions, they automatically arrive on an Excel file. From these questions, I created a form with the answers which has the particularity of being automatically updated in all the questionnaires where it is integrated as soon as I modify it. This is a huge time saving in terms of designing and updating the content, especially in law.

What are the benefits for the students?

I recently had the opportunity to test the contributor option with a group of 25 students. They all had the opportunity to create questions on a basis as part of a predefined exercise.

Learning to ask a question and question content by thinking about another way of presenting information is learning altogether, so the fact that there is this kind of option is quite extraordinary.

We are not inventing hot water because this method already existed, but applying it with large volumes of students is different. Looking at the connection statistics of my students, I saw that in a 3-hour period, 75% had worked for 1h30. The contributor option thus allows us to create an activity that motivates them to work remotely in a collaborative, pedagogical and constant way while maximizing the time used. This is an interesting option when you have to take care of many students over a long period of time. If I had had to do classes in a hurry during confinement, that's the method I would have used.