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| PESU0019-2 | Using Internet as a support for learning
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| Duration : | 15h Th, 15h AUTR |
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| Lecturer : | Marianne Poumay |
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| Coordinator : | N... |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| This course deals with various ways of using the Internet as a support for learning. It will focus in particular on wikis, blogs, resource directories, RSS feeds and their respective potentialities in terms of pedagogical usability. The course is meant for you if you are not yet familiar with such tools and with their potentialities in relation to learning. You will have the opportunity to discover and to experiment with the tools in order to be able to use them for learning purposes and to understand their pedagogical value. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The participants will have a critical view on the interest of Internet as a support for learning. They will have :
- be introduced to various Web tools and applications potentially facilitating students' learning,
- tested some of them,
- prepared an activity making use of one of those Internet tools in one of their courses,
- constructively criticised the activities designed by some of their colleagues. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| The teachers wishing to enrol for this course must have some experience of teaching. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Several activities will be organized throughout the course. They are described in detail in the online learning environment dedicated to the course.
1. Discover and describe Web resources, comment on resources brought by your peers, share your discoveries and comments with the other participants.
2. Create a collective rationale by collaborating with the other participants in a « Wiki » (thematic : Internet as a support for learning). Illustrate all your contributions with concrete examples.
3. Investigate and test yourself a Web tool potentiially useful in your own teaching. Tell us why you chose it.
4. Design (paper phase) a "Web" activity to be integrated in one of your courses. Describe it, justify its relevance for your course and present it to the other participants of the course.
5. Advise your peers. Read about the work of your peers and constructively comment two of them.
The course will be organized once a year and will start in Septembre. It must be completed during the first semester. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is organized fully online. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Articles and links to be explored are listed in the online learning environment of the course. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The tasks to be performed within the course (see description above: describe resources, participate in a Wiki, test a Web tool, design and present a Web activity, advise colleagues) are all mandatory to get a final grade for the course. The final grade will be based upon the quality of the activities performed. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| As its methodology asks for interactions between participants, this course will only be organized if a minimum of 5 participants whish to enroll. |
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Contacts :
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| Prof. Marianne Poumay : +32 (0)4 366 20 79 m.poumay@ulg.ac.be
Teaching assistant : Catherine Lesire +32 (0)4 366 98 36 catherine.lesire@ulg.ac.be |
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| The course is organized fully online, using different tools. The URLs of the websites will be communicated to the students at the beginning of the course. |
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