Strengthen your teaching with educational technologies

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Digital competences are the talk of the town! Whenever education is discussed, you hear about how we can improve the digital competences of the educators as well as the students. But how can we implement more technologies in our teaching to strengthen student learning?

The use of educational technologies (EdTech) is much more than adding a YouTube clip on Absalon or using clickers in a lecture. EdTech are powerful tools that you and your students can benefit from when used in a feasible didactical setting.

The course will introduce the opportunities and challenges involved in using EdTech to create effective and student-centred learning environments in different educational setups (face-to-face learning, blended learning, online learning).

Intended Learning Outcomes

The participants will learn how EdTech can support and improve teaching and how to apply EdTech to develop and support their own digital competences in higher education and other teaching/training environments. Specifically, the course will focus on 1) selecting, creating and managing digital resources, 2) applying EdTech (e.g. video/audio, student response systems, learning management systems, collaborative platforms), and 3) working with continuous feedback, such as online quizzes and assessment of students in a digital workflow.

The course focuses on opportunities and challenges involved in using EdTech to create effective and student-centred learning environments in different educational setups (face-to-face learning, blended learning, online learning).

Knowledge

  • Explain modalities in online and blended learning environments
  • Identify and describe the didactical potential of the EdTechs introduced

Skills

  • Set up and use relevant EdTech
  • Use elements of the ABC-Learning Design method for the design of blended learning environments paths
  • Implement digital feedback and assessment tools to support students’ learning process in a course module

Competencies

  • Critically evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of using EdTech in higher education teaching.