Using Internet as a support for learning

Duration

15h Th, 15h AUTR

Number of credits

Lecturer

N...

Language(s) of instruction

English 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

This course deals with various ways of using the Internet as a support for learning. It will focus in particular on wikis, blogs, resource directories, RSS feeds and their respective potentialities in terms of pedagogical usability. The course is meant for you if you are not yet familiar with such tools and with their potentialities in relation to learning. You will have the opportunity to discover and to experiment with the tools in order to be able to use them for learning purposes and to understand their pedagogical value.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

You will be introduced to various Web tools and applications and you will have the opportunity to use one of them to facilitate your students' learning.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The teachers wishing to enrol for this course must have some experience in teaching.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Several activities will be organized throughout the course. They are described in detail in the online learning environment dedicated to the course.
1. Discover and describe Web resources, comment on resources brought by your peers, share your discoveries and comments with the other participants.
2. Create a collective rationale by collaborating with the other participants in a « Wiki » (thematic : Internet as a support for learning). Illustrate all your contributions with concrete examples.
3. Investigate and test yourself a Web tool potentiially useful in your own teaching. Tell us why you chose it.
4. Design (paper phase) a "Web" activity to be integrated in one of your courses. Describe it, justify its relevance for your course and present it to the other participants of the course.
5. Advise your peers. Read about the work of your peers and constructively comment two of them.
The course will be organized once a year (either in October or in January).

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

The course is organized fully online.

Recommended or required readings

None.

The tasks to be performed within the course (see description above: describe resources, participate in a Wiki, test a Web tool, design and present a Web activity, advise colleagues) are all mandatory to get a final grade for the course. The final grade will be based upon the quality of the activities performed.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

As its methodology asks for interactions between participants, this course will only be organized if a minimum of 5 participants whish to enroll.
It will NOT be organized in 2014-2015.

Contacts

Prof. Marianne Poumay : +32 (0)4 366 20 79 m.poumay@ulg.ac.be

Association of one or more MOOCs

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