Study Programmes 2016-2017
PEDA4031-1  
Communication and media
Duration :
20h Th, 30h Pr
Number of credits :
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
Learning unit 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 learning unit :
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
  • Cooperative work: case study on the legal aspects of the use of ICT and media
  • Creation and implementation of a pedagogical activity aiming at developping one media education skill
  • Mutimedia design and production
  • 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)
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 (with at least one scientific article)
  • Creation of an activity aiming at developping one media education skill
  • Case study on the legal aspect of ICT and media uses
Validation requests the submission of the three parts.
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 :
Most part of the course will take place in class but some hours will be released for home work.
Contacts :
Professor
DENIS Brigitte, b.denis@ulg.ac.be
Assistants
JORIS Noémie, noemie.joris@ulg.ac.be
SNOECK Céline, csnoeck@ulg.ac.be
RAPPE Jonathan, j.rappe@ulg.ac.be