Duration
30h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in education (120 ECTS) | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
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 ?
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.
Recommended or required readings
A specific book will be proposed from Berthiaume et Rege Colet (2013): « La pédagogie de l'enseignement supérieur : repères théoriques et applications pratiques - Tome 1 : Enseigner au supérieur », in order to understand thhe context of Highher Education pedagogy.
Depending upon the chosen subjects, further reading may be necessary (to be determined during the first course sessions).
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)
None
Organizational remarks
Face-to-face sessions will be organized on Mondays or Tuesdays (alterning mode), from 5PM to 8PM. 8 sessions are already planned, as follows: 24/09, 30/09, 08/10, 14/10, 22/10, 04/11, 19/11 and 09/12 (subject to exceptional modifications during the year).
Contacts
Professor: Marianne Poumay (m.poumay@uliege.be)
Teaching assistant: Virginie Jamin (vjamin@uliege.be)
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
This course ran until December 2019.
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Unchanged
Assessment methods
Before Monday, August 17th, midnight, the written report has to be sent by email as an attached file to both Mrs. Poumay and Mrs. Jamin. That report is the only production graded for the second evaluation session (no oral presentation).
Contacts
vjamin@uliege.be