PEDA4058-1

Duration

30h Th, 20h Pr

Number of credits

	Master in education (120 ECTS)	5 crédits

Lecturer

Marianne Poumay

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Higher Education Pedagogy (HEP) is a pretty young research field in Belgium. Nevertheless, it comprizes already numerous publications, specialized seminars and a very important reflective activity.
The students already aware of the challenges faced by HE teachers will discover, through this course, the specific function of "Developer" (D) in Higher Education.
This course offers students :

to discover the reality of developers through reading and participating in activities and seminars ;
to deepen one of the developers' missions by documenting it (reference book, web sites, testimonies) as well as in participating in discussions, face-to-face and online ;
(in pairs or small groups) to scientifically contribute to the field of HEP by producing a short video and commentaries on a professional web site linked to the chosen developers' mission.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

As, through this course, the students discover the new domain of the role of developers in higher education, it will more specifically focus on the development of competence 1 of the reference grid used in the Master in Educational Sciences at FPLSE, slightly modified (by the lecturer) as follows :
"To analyse education and training situations :

referring to conceptual frameworks from the interdisciplinary field of the educational sciences (models, existing litterature) ;
taking into account the contexts and different actors of those situations (age, life and training contexts, functionning of the systems, meaning for each of the actors) ;
distinguishing between description, interpretation and prescription."

The situations will of course concern the developers.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course activities will depend upon the number of enrolled students. Either in groups of two or small groups (the first steps of their work will in any case remain individual), the students will read several chapters of a reference manual.
In order for them to deepen the topic they have chosen, students will read and document their ideas (articles, conference proceedings, books, professional testimonials, online sites) and participate in internal seminars.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Blended mode, combining face-to-face, external and on-line activities.

Assessment methods and criteria

Participation in the training activities is mandatory in order to access evaluation for this course.
The development of the targeted competence will be evaluated through a written production.

Work placement(s)