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| APPR0110-1 | Learning techniques (Partim I) | ||||||||
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| Duration : | 5h Th, 10h Pr, 10h SEM | ||||||||
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| Holder(s) : | Françoise Pasleau | ||||||||
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| Course contents : | This course is taught in cooperation with the GUIDANCE ETUDES student advice service. It aims at encouraging the autonomous use of available information sources for learning. Sources mean: lecture notes, recommended reference books, other reference material, the Internet Learning means: lectures, practicals, Problem-Based Learning seminars and professional training. The Service Guidance Etude (SGE) organizes three two-hour sessions, which will allow students to make the best of class attendance and better understand teachers expectations. On the other hand, scientific communication increasingly relies on computers to create and analyze information and uses the Internet as a distribution medium. Such tools have become essential not only for students, but also for professionals. In addition, they play a crucial role in the further education process. As a result, the « Learning Techniques » course also includes an approach of computers, operating systems and peripheral units. In the second year, the course will present an approach of documentary research methods and critical reading exercises. | ||||||||
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| Course objective : | GENERAL OBJECTIVES: Learning to autonomously use available information sources. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: Session 1: Making the best of class attendance: efficient lecture note-taking o Objectives: - Raising awareness about the need to actively participate in class through appropriate note-taking (active listening); - Offering concrete advice for taking and using lecture notes in view of the different courses; - Identifying assessment criteria for note-taking quality. o Contents: - Depending on organizational constraints, contents will be selected in two or three 1st-term subjects and will be dealt with during one or two sessions at the beginning of the year. Session 2: Making the most of individual study: how to produce working tools o Objectives: - Raising awareness about the need to learn productively and gradually; - Offering concrete advice as regards the working out of personal study documents (annotations, summaries, outlines, syntheses ); - Identifying assessment criteria for such documents quality. o Contents: - Depending on organizational constraints, contents will be selected in two or three 1st-term subjects. They will refer to a sufficiently large, consistent part of learning materials from the first 8 teaching weeks. - Prior working out of a personal study tool by students. - Learning session in the first term, 9th and 10th teaching weeks (i.e. about two weeks after the physics test). Session 3: Understanding teachers expectations: preparing exams o Objectives: - Raising awareness about the need for preliminary (and retrospective) thinking about exam requirements; - Helping students to make up their own assessment of first test experiences (winter exam period); - Providing concrete advice and information on practical exam details and assessment questions (spring exam period). o Contents: - Depending on organizational constraints, a multidisciplinary multiple-choice exam simulation experiment will be organized; contents will be selected within 1st-term Fundamental Sciences modules and the 2nd-term Biomedical module (February). The simulation test will be followed by a feedback part focused on the questioning approach and answers; - Learning session in the second term, 4th and 5th teaching weeks. Session 4: Mastering basic notions in computer science o Objectives: After attending this learning module, students should: - Be able to use a computer; - Understand elementary theoretical notions related to computers and networks. o Contents: Like all other sciences, medical computer science uses a specialized language. The optimal use of computer tools requires minimum vocabulary skills. Whereas previous experience has showed that students are relatively familiar with PCs, it has made clear that they feel much more helpless when asked about computers and networks. | ||||||||
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| Prerequisites : | None | ||||||||
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| Workshops : | The organization of practicals is not available yet. | ||||||||
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| Organization : | Schedules and rooms will be posted on the Faculty notice board. Two sessions will be organized in the first term. Practical details (notably as regards required preparation) will be published in due course. Session 4: Computer Science - The theoretical course is limited to one in-class session, during which objectives and activities will be presented. A guest lecturer will attest to the importance of computer science for students and/or professionals. - Extra (scheduled) time will be devoted to individual and group work: with a view to guiding students towards the assimilation of theoretical information, a group project will aim at working out a computer-science glossary with about 70 specialized items (12 students max. in each group). | ||||||||
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| Written notes : | Sessions 1, 2 and 3: Students will be given a synthesis document with the most important advice in the course of each session. A note-taking module can be accessed from homepage http://www.ulg.ac.be/guidance/ (ask for access to Méthodes en ligne/Online Methods) Session 4: A reading file is available on the Internet through a computer-science Website for the general public. It is entitled Comment ça marche? linformatique (URL: http://www.commentcamarche.net/). It deals with the following aspects: 1. Computer: Hardware architecture 2. Computer-science basics: Binary system 3. Operating systems: Basics 4. Programming: Introduction 5. Networks and protocols: Introduction to networks 6. Practice: Using software and the Internet In addition, the Comment ça marche? linformatique homepage proposes a series of documents available to all students, subject to their curiosity and interest in the field. All useful information will be available on the University of Lièges Website (students portal MyULg). | ||||||||
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| Assessment : | A written test will give a global grade for the module. The grade will be divided up as follows: TO BE CONFIRMED English (15/20) Computer-science basics (5/20) No specific assessment on sessions 1, 2 and 3. Compulsory active participation (session preparation and attendance). | ||||||||
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| Contacts : | Dr Françoise PASLEAU, Bibliothèque des Sciences de la Vie, CHU, B-35. Phone: 04-366 21 80; email: F.Pasleau@ulg.ac.be Service Guidance Etude, M. Delhaxhe, D. Duchâteau, A.-F. Lanotte, B33, Sart Tilman Phone: secretary: 04-366 23 31; email: guidance.etude@ulg.ac.be | ||||||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 8/04/2005
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