Animal Neurophysiology Virtual Lab: Pedagogical Requirements and Technological Issues

As digital content is more and more present in our everyday life, universities, by the way of their teachers and course authors, have to be up-to-date by delivering pertinent, accessible and easily-handling courses. To reach this goal, many LMS exist to play online learning objects, but they often remain parody of classical support such as paper version of lecture notes: it appears finally as non-interactive classical books in electronic version. Inevitably, this situation shows the issue of designing some real interactive and electronic learning content, and not translating lecture notes to PDF files. In this paper, we explain how multimedia learning support can meet pre-defined pedagogical requirements. Through a real case study, the Neuron Physiology practical course, we sketch the logical link between an educational objective, the choice of an interactive activity and the way to implement it from a technical point of view.