2020-2021 / PEDA4032-1

Introduction to digital uses in education

Duration

20h Th, 20h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in education (120 ECTS)4 crédits 

Lecturer

Brigitte Denis, Noémie Joris

Coordinator

Brigitte Denis

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

The course includes the following chapters:
1. Digital technologies integration policies in education and initial and continuous teachers' training in ICTE (Information and Communication Technologies for Education)
2. Digital uses in education (tools, added-values, learning scenarios integrating digital tools uses, quality of pedagogical video)
3. Technological Research in Education and theoretical models of digital integration in education
4. Evaluation of the quality of educational software and digital interfaces

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The three main course's objectives are:

  • Using digital technologies in a critical and usefull way for learning purposes.
  • Mastering knowledge linked with digital technologies integration in Education
  • Analysing digital uses in learning context based on the theoretical informations seen during the course
More precisely, the learner will
- know several digital technologies integration policies in education in the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles (FWB)
- know the european provisions among pre-service teacher training in ICTE and put them in paralell with the ones taken in FWB 
- use several digital tools related to contents and activities
- have an overview of educational digital technologies uses
- develop a critical point of view about the added values of digital technologies uses in education
- apply different (techno) educational models and concepts to analyse training environments
- create a grid for evaluating the pedagogical quality of educational software
- analyze the ergonomic quality of a software interface

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is based, on the one hand, on the principle of isomorphism, i.e. to provide the trainees with learning experiences on which they will be able to base the design and facilitation of such activities with their (future) learners (e.g. use of various services for document publishing, communication, sharing, etc.) and, on the other hand, on the critical analysis, based on scientific writings, of teaching-learning tools and situations aimed at integrating digital technology in an educational context. 
The course will use various learning and teaching methods :

  • Face to face individual and group activities (e.g. evaluation grid of pedagogical quality)
  • Distance activities
  • Teacher's presentations face-to-face or online
  • Flipped classroom : Reading Questions and Exercises method
  • Practical work (tablets, Interactive Whiteboard, video clips, educational robotics)
  • Interactions with the teacher and her assistants through the elearning plaform
  • Learners' presentations

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

The course will be mostly in face-to-face. 

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Recommended or required readings

All information about the course is available on the elearning platform eCampus.
Resources are:
1. Supports used during the courses.
2. Courses notes.
3. Complementary resources. 
4. Exam informations.
5. Instruction for activities.
6. Forums (technical aspects, transversal questions, contents...) for asking questions.
More punctual information will be published on the eCampus platform (Announcement) and a copy of each announcement will be automatically sent to the mailbox of students regularly registered  in the course.
Other communication tools (mail, forum) and collective productions (shared editors...) are also used to carry out the activities.

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

- Remote

written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND written work

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

Evaluation is based on:




  • An integrating work (50%)
Student, alone or in group (2 or 3 students), will have to edit a video showing a learning activity integrating digital technologies and analyze it referring to different criteria. 






  • A written exam (50%)
The exam will include several open questions and will cover several parts of the course.
In addition, participation in TPs (4 different TPs) is mandatory (unless waived by the teacher). Information on TP registrations will be presented during the session and disseminated on eCampus.  
Validation requests the submission of both parts and a score of 10/20 or more. If the student failed (less than 10/20) but succeed on one of the two parts, he should only take again the part of the examen where he failed. 
Unless otherwise arranged by the authorities in January, the written examination will take place in person.

Work placement(s)

Work placements in educational technologies are proposed  by the CRIFA (Centre de Recherche sur l'Instrumentation, la Formation et l'Apprentissage). It is recommended that you have completed the Introduction to ICTE course to register. 
Students can also choose a master thesis in this field of research (list of topics on demand). 

Organizational remarks

The course takes place on Wednesday from 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm. Some session will take place online. Information about these sessions will be presented during the first session. 
Practical works take place in specific classrooms. Information will be posted on eCampus.

Contacts

Teacher : DENIS Brigitte, b.denis@uliege.be Assistants :
NOBEN Natasha, natasha.noben@uliege.be
JORIS Noémie, noemie.joris@uliege.be

Items online

Resources

  • They are only available online by students already registered to the course.