PEDA4051-1

Duration

30h Th, 20h Pr

Number of credits

	Master in education (120 ECTS)	4 crédits

Lecturer

Marianne Poumay

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

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. In a way that leaves room for their individual interests, this course offers students :

to discover the reality of HEP through several up-to-date themes. Therefore, they will notably read and participate in external activities (conferences, workshops) and seminars ;
to deepen one of these themes by documenting it (literature, web sites, testimonies) ;
to scientifically contribute to the field of HEP by producing a material allowing for discussion ("Memos") and occasionally leading (in December) a specialized forum on the chosen theme.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

As, through this course, the students discover the new domain of higher education pedagogy, 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). "

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course activities will be realized in groups, eventhough the first steps of the students' work will remain individual. The students will read several chapters of a reference manual, then choose a topic and deepen it throughout the course. As examples, here are some of the the topics chosen by former students :

active methodologies in large groups (projects, problems, cases, active large groups, etc.),
organizing activities in vertical / horizontal groups,
course / program evaluation by students,
MOOCs and their economic underlying models,
the models deeply combining training and practice,
go for projects !
is peer tutoring always efficient ?
how to fully exploit a professional internship ?
how to efficiently exploit virtual campuses ?

In order for them to deepen the topic they have chosen, students will participate in outside activities, they will read and document their ideas (articles, conference proceedings, books, professional testimonials, online sites) and participate in internal seminars.
To share their work and make sense of their documentation process, the students will draft and post online a "memo" on their thematic. They will then moderate/animate a forum on the web site of a professional HEP association.

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

Blended mode, combining face-to-face, external and on-line activities, on-line search as well as forum moderation.

Assessment methods and criteria

Participation in the training activities (choice of a subject, submission of an individual "memo" in October, online forum) is mandatory in order to access evaluation for this course.
Through a written report comprising important annexes tracking on-line documents and interactions, the students will be asked to demonstrate their development of the 1st competence of the ULiège competence grid for that Master, slightly modified by the lecturer as presented upper in italics.
A specific training activity will help them build up that report, as well as a specific document.
In cohérence with the idea of continuous evaluation, some of the intermediate productions will be noted and taken into account in the final grade, together with the report.

Work placement(s)