2019-2020 / PEDA4031-1

Communication and media

Duration

20h Th, 30h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in education (120 ECTS)3 crédits  

Lecturer

Brigitte Denis

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Cours topics:

  • Media and communication
  • Research in media and communication 
  • Media education
  • Legal aspects of ICT and media uses
  • Personal Learning Environment
  • Typologies of the pedagogical uses of video
  • Serious Games
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:

  • Define 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
  • Implement a research procedure to deal with a question concerning a course topic.
  • Respect legal aspects of the use of ICT and media
  • Jugde the interest of using a personal learning environment
  • Identify the pedagogical purpose related to the use of a video
  • Analyse a serious game from a criterated grid

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
  • Collaborative 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 competence
  • 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 consists in face-to-face 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:
1. Media reading (presentation of a topic based on 3 media resources, with at least one scientific article) - Groupwork.
2. Creation of an activity aiming at developping one media education skill - Individually
3. Case study on the legal aspect of ICT and media uses - By group of two or three
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@uliege.be
Assistants
JORIS Noémie, noemie.joris@uliege.be
NOBEN Natasha, natasha.noben@uliege.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

The course sessions have been adapted to be followed online. Students receive instructions on how to connect to the virtual classroom and/or resources to discover the subject content a few days before the session (via an announcement on eCampus which is automatically sent by email).

  • When it is a live virtual class, it takes place at the same time as the course (Wednesday between 14h-17h), but is reduced to a maximum of 2 hours.
  • In the case of resources to be discovered, students can read about them and do the accompanying exercises whenever they wish. They can contact the supervisors by e-mail in case of problems.
The session regarding Personnel Learning Environment (PLE) has been cancelled. 

Assessment subjects

Work n°1 - Media Reading
No change
Work n°2 - EAM Activity 
The instructions have been modified (see "Travaux" on eCampus).
The created activity must develop two media skills (instead of one initially), but it should no longer be tested with students. The "reflexive feedback" section on the activity is removed, only an analysis of the developed skills must be proposed. The date of delivery of a first draft is post-posted. 
Work n°3 - Analysis of a case (legal aspects of the use of digital technology in teaching)
No change

Assessment methods

Work n°1 - Media Reading
The work was to be presented during a class session. Half of the students were able to do so (before Covid19 ). For the other students, the presentation will take place online in a virtual classroom (Blackboard Collaborate) during the last class session (29/4) from about 2 to 4 pm. 
Work n°2 - EAM Activity
The work will be uploaded on eCampus (document + slideshow) and the student will present his work online via a virtual classroom (Blackboard Collaborate). In order to avoid the discomfort of too long distance presentations, several oral sessions of 1h45 maximum (= 3 different presentations) will be proposed . Students are required to attend the entire session in which they are presenting. If they wish, they can participate in the others as well. The dates of the sessions will be proposed to the students at the end of April to share the agenda. 
Work n°3 - Case analysis 
No change. The evaluation consists in the submission of a work on eCampus. 

Contacts

Teacher
b.denis@uliege.be
Assistants
noemie.joris@uliege.be
natasha.noben@uliege.be
 

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

Work n°1 - Media Reading
No change
Work n°2 - EAM Activity 
The instructions have been modified (see "Travaux" on eCampus).
The created activity must develop two media skills (instead of one initially), but it should no longer be tested with students. The "reflexive feedback" section on the activity is removed, only an analysis of the developed skills must be proposed. 
Work n°3 - Analysis of a case (legal aspects of the use of digital technology in teaching)
No change

Assessment methods

Work n°1 - Media Reading
The work will be presented in the form of a commented slideshow (in the form of a video) to be placed on ecampus.
Work n°2 - EAM Activity
The work will be uploaded on eCampus (document + slideshow) and the student will present his work online via a virtual classroom (Blackboard Collaborate). The date of the oral will be arranged with the teacher. 

Work n°3 - Case analysis 
No change. The evaluation consists in the submission of a work on eCampus. 

Contacts

Professor
b.denis@uliege.be
Assistants
noemie.joris@uliege.be
natasha.noben@uliege.be