Complement for reverse class: Return on experience with Audencia Masters 2

On May 15, Master 2 students from the Sciencescom program in Audencia tested an unprecedented format of reverse class, led by a conversational Avatar. Designed with their teacher as part of the “responsible information” course, this experiment was aimed at assessing the educational impact of an interactive, oral and individualized learning, for the inverted class. Back on an innovative experience, conducted with a complement.

An AI to talk about disinformation

It was in Audencia, a Nantes business school, that one of the first large-scale experiments of the E-Learning Platform Complement took place . The module focused on disinformation, and was co-constructed with Estelle Prusker-Deneuville , teacher of the Sciencescom program, as part of her “responsible information” course.

The objective: to entrust an IA avatar an introductory part of the course normally ensured in face -to -face. Students discovered key numbers, graphic and challenges related to media, with questions promoting reflection: what media do the French follow? How to check information? How to fight disinformation?

Everything was done remotely, via a simple browser. No software to install, no frozen video: the tutor IA conversed orally, analyzed the answers and adapted his rhythm to each student.

A creation in less than a day

The 40 slides module was designed in a few hours from Estelle's course support. "In a 1h30 workshop, we had finished part of the scripts of the slides and interactions, and we had made half the quiz," says Gabriel du Chalard, co -founder of Complement. Then Estelle finished the creation of the module alone, before it was tested by the Complement team. Gabriel: “The idea is to make the teachers autonomous in creation.”

Coline Thérial, co-founder and CTO, adds: "When Estelle saw that she could pilot everything - information provided, rhythm, questions and exercises - she became conductor of her own course. This is exactly what we want to allow with complement."

A well -greeted hybrid experience

On May 15, the students (alternating, Master 2 level) were briefly briefed in class, then followed the module alone at home, at their own pace. The next day, return to face -down with their teacher to debate the experience, with Coline in Visioconference.

Their feedbacks were very positive:

• “It's simple, fluid, very intuitive.”
• “I appreciated the oral interaction, it is new and more engaging.”
• “I retained better thanks to the oral and the questions asked.”
• “The fact of being able to adapt the voice and the style of the virtual teacher is great.”
• "It's fun but it will not replace teachers. I think it is a tool that is used in complementarity"

What we will remember:

• 70 % of students say that the platform has improved their understanding of the subject
• The majority have found the module “Fun” and “engaging”
• Oral interactions and personalization are perceived as focus factors
• Ease of use: average note of 4.35 / 5

Experience will also have made it possible to collect other data related to the course, in particular that almost half of the students of the experimentation are informed of the news thanks to “youth” media or to an accessible tone (Brut, Hugodécrypte, Konbini), the traditional media being much less quoted, with a few exceptions like the newspaper Le Monde.

Next step: assessment with the school

A summary meeting is planned with the Audencia teams to share the detailed results. For complement, this experiment marks a key step: show that AI can enrich the course experience and allows to make inverted classes, without ever replacing the human link.

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