Duration
15h Th, 30h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in education (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
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
The course explores the tensions active in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). Since their inception and till nowadays, these digital resources and artefacts have triggered debates and controversies relating to their potential, usage, effects, and conditions. The course offers a reflection and discussion space of the arguments and positions that can be invoked on issues like:
- ipads, smartboards, BYOD, simulation tools in classrooms;
- public investment in schools' cybermedias centers;
- the links between technological affordances and the generation so-called "netgens", "millenials", "homo zappiens", Y, etc.
- the gamification of educational activities;
- the introduction of programming courses in the curriculum;
- the new dimensions of the "digital divide";
- TEL and cognitive sciences;
- students and teachers' digital identities;
- new medias and students' attention span reduction;
- replacement or new roles of the teacher in a TEL environment;
- educational technologies as a vehicle of "school merchandising";
- social media and learning;
- adaptive systems and personalized learning;
- MOOCs and learning;
- innovative learning spaces
- etc.
These topics are only illustrative. They can change according to technological evolutions and political debate updates.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, participants will have :
- heightened their familiarity with modern TEL literature;
- methodically approached a bunch of intellectual operations inherent to reading, writing and reflection for a knowledge worker (« academic moves », Burke & Gilmore, 2015) ;
- documented recent debates on the use of TEL and, in the light of the studied arguments, sharpened their personal position;
- experiences useful tool for ideas presentation, in a new media literacy perspective.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
A fair level of English reading skills is needed to fruitfully attend to this course whose lectures will be delivered in French.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures are not the main part of the course which presents as a series of thematic flipped classrooms. Through invidividual and collective activities, in the class or in autonomy, students are invited to identify what is considered at stake in various technological evolutions applied to education. Overall, the course develops less a content perspective than an attitudinal one: applying an admirative and critical approach to disputed topics, as an intellectual has to do at university and after.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
The course occurs every Friday from 17H30 à 20H (TRIFAC), lectured by the teacher and the participants. In-between, preparation (reading, assignment...) takes place, as it is expected from flipped classroom.
Recommended or required readings
Needed readings (portfolio of press articles, scientific articles, chapters, books, videos) will be defined by the start of the course. All of them will be available in or via the online space (https://www.ecampus.ulg.ac.be). Instructions relating to the use of ideas vizualisation tools will also be provided. The ressources are however open to change since the course tries, to a certain extent, to be open the news in the TEL field. Resources might also be brought by participants themselves.
Assessment methods and criteria
All covered topics will entail assignments and short-tests, both online and in class. Their assessment will contribute for 60% of the mark. An oral exam on the readings requested for the course, and their "key sentences", will complement this mark.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
In blended learning, the self-regulated internalization of contents goes along with the discussion of this content with teacher and peers. The ultimate purpose of this articulation is to refine a personal intellectual position regarding the topics covered. In this context, attendance to the courses and upstream/downstream work thereon is highly recommended because their articulation is what makes learning benefits the moste likely.
It is also highly recommended to bring a laptop/tablet to the course even though it should be possible, in most cases, to share a computer with a fellow peer.