Study Programmes 2015-2016
PEDA4031-1  
Communication and media
Duration :
20h Th, 30h Pr
Number of credits :
Master in education (120 ECTS)3
Master in education (120 ECTS)3
Master in education (120 ECTS)3
Master in education (120 ECTS)3
Lecturer :
Brigitte Denis
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
Course structure:
  • Chapter 1: Media and communication
  • Chapter 2: Media education
  • Chapter 3: Legal aspects of ICT and media uses
  • Chapter 4: Creation of a media product
  • Chapter 5: Personal Learning Environment
  • Chapter 6: Research in media and communication 
The course deals with media education, especially in relation with training and learning.
Based on researches, it deals with different topics about media impact in several domains (e.g. communication, learning, work environment management, private life, digital identity, citizenship...).
Links are made with educational programs.
Learning outcomes of the course :
The course aims at developing the learner's media literacy.


  • Definie the concepts of media and media literacy
  • Distinguish media education and education supported by media
  • Exploit a typology crossing categories of activities and dimensions of media objects
  • Analyse educational programs or documents (research papers or reports) related to educational media
  • Search and select information on  a given topic
  • Verify the sources quality
  • Produce multimedia contents
  • Work collaboratively
  • Implement a research procedure to deal with a question concerning a course topic.
  • Respect legal aspects of the use of ICT and media
  • Juge the interest of using a personal learning environment
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
  • Teacher's and experts' lectures
  • Learners' presentations on the analysis of different media reffering to the same subject 
  • Debates
  • Mutimedia design and production
  • Practical work based on the use of different services of documents edition, communication and sharing
  • Use of the eCampus platform to communicate and share information with the professor and peers
  • Concrete learning and communication distance activities (f.i. through the use of a distance learning platform)
  • Case study on the legal aspects of the use of ICT and media
  • Creation of a pedagogical activity aiming at developping one media education skill
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
The course consits in a blended learning environment combining face-to-face activities (3 hours sessions) and distance activities.
Recommended or required readings :
Online resources are available (eCampus platform).
Assessment methods and criteria :
Professor's expectations: Active learners, having critical points of views, able to initiate themselves to different techniques and to make links with other courses.
The assessment is based on:
  • Media reading
  • Creation of an activity aiming at developping one media education skill
  • Case study on the legal aspect of ICT and media uses
  • Creation of a media product - a CV
Work placement(s) :
Work placements in educational technologies are proposed by the CRIFA (Centre de Recherche sur l'Instrumentation, la Formation et l'Apprentissage) Team.
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
Professor
DENIS Brigitte, b.denis@ulg.ac.be
Assistants
JORIS Noémie, noemie.joris@ulg.ac.be
SNOECK Céline, csnoeck@ulg.ac.be