Workshop on the design and evaluation of the education media
[COMU2604]
[10h + 20h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 1st & 2d semester.
Teacher(s): Thierry De Smedt
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
Main themes
- To give students the skills to design an education document in professional conditions by applying a systematic method.
- To situate the input of a communications expert in the design, management and evaluation of a message or an educational discourse and relationships with the other professionals involved in the project.
- To enable students to experience a concrete intervention in an institution (e.g. an enterprise, an association or an administration) as communications specialists.
Content and teaching methods
Methodology of the design and production of a hard-copy, audio-visual or multi-media educational document:
- making contact;
- analysing and defining the problem;
- identifying the problems communications components;
- the documents specifications;
- choosing educational strategies and studying the variables concerned;
- outlining and building the model;
- producing it;
- carrying out tests, and evaluating the effects.
Methodology
EXPOSÉS DIDACTIQUES, exercises in applying previously learned materials, and supervised group work: design and production of a discourse or document backing up an institutions educational aims.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Four criteria will be applied: the quality of the finished product, the application of theories relating to educational messages and discourses, the quality of project management, and a personal review of skills acquired.
Work on designing experimental research may be extended in a report.
Follow-up on the work extends throughout the year. Use of IT and audio-visual equipment.
Plenary sessions require a room equipped for audio-visual and IT projection.