2019-2020 / PEDA4058-1

Higher education faculty development

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

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 still a pretty young research field in Belgium. It is, however, enriched by numerous publications, specialized international conferences and a very important reflexive activity The students will discover, through this course, the specific function of "Developer" (D) in Higher Education.
Please note that this function is to be differentiated from that in the context of primary or secondary education: it is organized through reference grids, activities and missions specific to the context of higher education.
This course offers participants :

  • to discover the reality of developers through reading and participating in  activities and seminars/webinars ;
  • to deepen one of the developers' missions by documenting it (reference book, web sites, testimonies) as well as participating in synchronous and asynchronous online discussions ;
  • (in 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 as well as by moderating a professional webinar.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Through its learning and evaluation situations, similar to those in which a developer is supposed to act, the participants will develop the following competence:
"To develop his professionalism as a higher education developer,

  • by enrolling in a continuous learning process
  • contributing to the development of the profession
  • by demonstrating professional ethics,
at the development level corresponding to an "active participatory" stance " (Poumay & Georges, 2018).
Note for students enrolled in the Master in Educational Sciences: The course will contribute to the development of the first competence of the referential of the ULIège Master, slighhtly modified (by the teacher) as follows: "Analyze education / training situations by referring to conceptual frameworks from the interdisciplinary field of educational sciences (models, existing literature) and taking into account the contexts and the different actors of these situations (ages, places of life and training, functioning systems, meaning for every actor). "

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The QAPES-partim1 course is a co-requisite for the participants who don't have any experience as teachers or developers in higher education. In particular, that experience could facilitate contacts with the witnessing professionals.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The students will work in small groups, although the first steps of their work will remain individual. They will read several chapters of a reference manual, interview a developer, realize a video/powtoon presentation and interact online following several modalities.
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 (online if they wish).

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

Blended mode, combining face-to-face, external and on-line activities.
If they wish, the students who choose this course as a "free" option (those who have not enrolled in the Master in Educational Sciences of ULiège) can go for a fully online modality.

Recommended or required readings

A specific book will be proposed, from Daele et Sylvestre (2016): « Comment développer le conseil pédagogique dans l'enseignement supérieur ? ». It will be necessary in particular to carry out the documentation activities of the course.
Other readings will have to be considered, targeting different missions of the developer, according to the themes/missions selected by the course participants.

Assessment methods and criteria

Participation in the training activities is mandatory in order to access evaluation for this course.
The development of the targeted competences (it italic upper) will be evaluated through a written production,  such as a "portfolio" (gathhering selected and commented traces of the competence).

Work placement(s)

None

Organizational remarks

Synchronous sessions (mandatory  presence, either online for the "out of  Belgium" participants, or in face-to-face for the others) will be organized on Tuedsays, from 1PM  to  4PM, at the following dates : 24/09, 01/10, 22/10, 29/10, 05/11,19/11,26/11, 03/12 and 10/12 (although exceptional modifications could appear).

Contacts

Professor: Marianne Poumay (m.poumay@uliege.be)
Teaching assistant: Virginie Jamin (vjamin@uliege.be)
Additional internal teacher: François Georges (fr.georges@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 (portfolio) 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