Communication and media

Duration

20h Th, 30h Pr

Number of credits

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

Beware, this course take place every other year, odd-numbered years (2019-2020, 2021-2022,...).
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

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, hybrid learning)

The course consists in face-to-face activities.

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Recommended or required readings

Online resources are available (eCampus platform).

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam AND oral exam

- Remote

oral exam AND written work

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

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

This course take place every other year, odd-numbered years (2019-2020, 2021-2022, ...).
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