Workshops on innovative pedagogies

Legal implications in innovative teaching

9 October 2023

Professors and students are right holders of copyright, data protection right and the right to image, among other rights. On the other hand, they can also affect third parties’ copyright, data protection right and the right to image in their daily activity. For this reason, it is very important to know them and to respect them when we organize teaching activities. In this workshop, we will discuss the main problems that arise in classes in relation to these legal topics.

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Methodological recommendations for designing a BIP with Service-Learning

10 October 2023

Interested in proposing attractive BIP courses for students from the CIVIS member universities? Come and learn more about BIPs that use the Service-Learning (SL) methodology in an international context.

Join this workshop and learn how to design, implement and evaluate a BIP with Service-Learning.

For further information and to register, please visit the workshop webpage.

Digital competencies for an effective online teaching

23 October 2023

This workshop aims to equip educators with the digital skills necessary for teaching using digital technology. Objectives include identifying key digital skills and formulating a development strategy to improve their own digital skills. Centred around sharing, the intention of this workshop is to co-construct an enlightened reflection on the digital skills needed for quality online teaching, which is part of a strong pedagogical coherence and in the context of each one.

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Creating interactive online workshops

30 October 2023

The workshop will focus on raising awareness on the design of relevant elements of interactive sessions and the stages specific to online courses, and more hands on actions such as strategies for getting the participants involved with the content and the elaboration of visual support for interactive workshops. The participants will share experience but will also practice in groups new interactive methods, reflecting on the way they could be integrated into their own teaching.

For further information and to register, please visit the workshop webpage.

Interculturality in the International Classroom

Teaching roles in Higher Education entail regular interaction with students and colleagues from a variety of geographical and academic cultures. While this brings enriching and rewarding experiences, the international classroom challenges us as teachers to (re)think how we engage with our students interculturally. This interactive workshop will offer a space to identify and overcome barriers to interculturality – the equitable interaction of diverse cultures – in the classroom. In the first part of the session, participants will be introduced to and encouraged to reflect critically on intercultural concepts, such as power distance, low/high context cultures and small culture formation. In break out rooms, small groups will discuss whether these concepts help explain our professional experience with international students. In the second half of the session, the workshop will introduce participants to potential strategies to overcome communication impasses in teaching using current scholarship in intercultural pedagogy. Selected strategies will then be workshopped and evaluated in break out rooms with a view for participants to find one that may be compatible with the objectives of upcoming courses.

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Students as "teacher whisperers" - Co-designing your pedagogical scenario with students

13 November 2023

For 20 years in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), the Bologna Process has advocated for moving towards a student-centred learning paradigm, using a learning outcome-based approach to teaching. In this context, considering students as partners, change agents, producers and co-creators of their own learning has been the subject of increasing interest. 

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Discover the Future of Education: Professional Clinics Workshop

16 November 2023

Are you ready to explore a groundbreaking approach to education that transcends boundaries and redefines learning as we know it? Welcome to the "Discover the Future of Education: Professional Clinics Workshop," led by Indira Boutier, Doctor in Public Law and a former coordinator of a legal clinic. In this interactive workshop, participants will have the unique opportunity to learn from an expert in the field. Open to academia, Ph.D. students, and civil society alike, this workshop will unveil the potential for professionalization, hands-on experience, and dynamic collaboration in the world of academia and beyond. Join us in exploring how Professional Clinics can empower students, elevate Ph.D. journeys, and foster meaningful connections with the professional world. Be part of the change, and let's shape the future of education together as we discover the importance of creating clinics or collaborating with them.

For further information and to register, please visit the workshop webpage.

Developing transversal competencies during your course

20 November 2023

The workshop will focus on exploring the concept of transversal competences (TC), will offer examples of activities that can be integrated into or adapted to a specific course design and content. TC are required by all employers and students need several years of experience to transfer their knowledge from theory to practice. By integrating TC into the academic curriculum we can assist them with integrating and adapting faster to the requirements of their new employment. 

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Pedagogy of Microcredentials: Case-based learning

23 November 2023

Microcredentials are a new type of course qualification for which people receive formal acknowledgement, academic and/or professional credit. Their focus is to enable the transition from ‘learner to earner’, through the development of workplace skills that are aligned with existing educational and professional frameworks. Due to their diverse structure and characteristics, Microcredentials need to be accompanied with context specific pedagogies. The aim of this workshop is to outline the various pedagogical options (e.g., competency-based learning, case-based learning, conversational learning, e-portfolio, etc.) that an educator can use when working with Microcredentials within higher education contexts.

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Teaching beyond our comfort zone: Facilitation for dealing with complex challenges especially in international and intercultural contexts

30 November 2023

In this workshop we want to look at the complexity of developing courses in CIVIS. Which framework conditions, such as structural requirements, which (subject) cultural influences or teaching-learning convictions have an impact on the collaboration. What could help teaching and development teams to successfully cope with these challenges? What contribution can process facilitators make?

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From A(rt) to (Z)ines: An introduction to creative pedagogies for active learning

1 December

This workshop will present an introduction to creative pedagogies for active learning. In this session, we’ll focus on A(rt-based pedagogies including digital storytelling), L(earning landscapes), O(bject-based learning), and Z(ines), and examine these creative pedagogies from the lens of a theoretical framework that can be applied to academic practice.

Vicki and Nathalie will introduce art-based pedagogies which can include media-based or performative student outputs that represent learning and reflection. Digital storytelling is one form of art-based pedagogies which allows the storyteller to combine various media to share individual experience and/or convey a powerful narrative. Learning landscapes represent the virtual or physical spaces we occupy as learners and teacher, and how these can be harnessed for authentic and transformative learning. Objects within these landscapes may be explored individually or collectively through inquiry-based learning.

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Programmatic approaches to curriculum design to promote assessment and feedback literacy

7 December 2023

In recent years there has been a growing interest in universities promoting a more holistic approach to assessment and feedback. One of the best ways to gain this holistic approach is through a programme-focused approach to not only the curriculum design process, but assessment and feedback practices. A programme-focused approach can provide opportunities to support students so that they better understand how to move through their programme of study equipped with the skills needed to be self-regulated learners in both the present and the future. This means knowledge and skills are assessed in a variety of ways; assessments complement one another, and it is possible to obtain a picture of students’ broader skillsets. ‘Designing assessment programmatically can also help reduce over-assessment, as academic staff have greater visibility of the amount and type of assessment their students are required to complete’ (Learning Through Assessment, 2023). This workshop will focus on how to start incorporating programmatic approaches into your curriculum design to support students with their assessment and feedback literacy. We will look at constructively aligning intended learning outcomes to assessments, and how to map the skills that students learn throughout the programme.

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Interactive lectures: How to enhance student engagement during lectures

18 November 2021

How can you facilitate and enhance student engagement during lectures? In this workshop for university teachers we focus on how to encourage student activity and engagement during lectures in order to support students' learning.

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Gamification of a full university course

8 March 2022

This is an interactive workshop that addresses the Gamification of a full university course; the participants are encouraged to come prepared either with a whole course or a session they want to gamify. 

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New digital methodologies for teaching and performing music

25 April 2022 and 27 April 2022

The New Digital Methodologies for Teaching and Performing Music workshop aims at presenting teaching experiences and new digital methodologies for the teaching of music at the early childhood, primary, secondary, and conservatory school stages. It will create a platform for the exchange of teaching experiences between the organizing universities (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Université libre de Bruxelles) and the members of the CIVIS academic community interested in this field. Our goal is to design new teaching experiences through new digital programs for sound editing, music creation and interpretation, and the evaluation of musical skills that can be applied in these educational levels.

For further information and to register, please visit the workshop webpage.

The ABC workshop method for collaborative course design

26 April 2022

This workshop offers tools for analyzing and developing the course
design of your teaching. The workshop is online and based
on the ABC method for course design. Please, bring your colleagues
and take the workshop as a collaborative thinking and design activity.

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About “Brain (good) uses for learning efficiently”

5 May 2022

Neuroscience has developed a deeper insight in understanding the mechanisms of human brain functioning, and in particular, synaptic plasticity, thanks to technology (such as nuclear magnetic resonance and confocal microscopes). The better knowledge of our different memory types in cognitive science, its recent results in testing different learning methods, in describing learner profiles and corresponding learning strategies, as well as stereotype threads (in addition to other stresses) and their potential consequences on test performances will be presented and discussed with the attendees through an interactive presentation.

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Developing a pedagogic toolbox for CLIL/EMI; teaching and learning in an additional language

9, 16 & 23 May 2022

The overall course is divided into three separate workshops to be delivered over the course of several weeks. These form a coherent sequence, but participants could also simply join those in which they are interested. The first two workshops are comprised of two parts and the final workshop is an interactive session, drawing together theory and practice. Each module will involve a number of supplementary follow-up tasks: reading, reflective activities, feedback and commentary.

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Using a game-based pedagogical framework to promote playful learning (GB- playfull)

13 May 2022

Game-based learning is an authentic way for meeting multiple learning outcomes at all educational levels, since, irrespective of their age, students are intrinsically and extrinsically motivated to play games. Game-Based Pedagogies can hardly be defined at a single epistemological level. Behaviorist, cognitivist, and socio-constructivist elements, or their combinations can be used for the design of a game, a game activity, or a general model of game-based learning. However, at an overarching level game-based pedagogies are those that promote playful learning, or otherwise learning that comes as a result of experiences that are enjoyable and worthwhile for their own sake.

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Visual thinking and art strategies for the promotion of culture of peace and conflict management

24, 25, 26 & 31 May 2022, 1 & 2 June 2022

This course offers a wide range of tools for learning about the culture of peace and conflict resolution through the critical analysis of images and the use of art for peacebuilding. It targets the academic community: students, professors and researchers who are willing to incorporate the culture of peace approach in their programmes. It aims to promote the development of capacities for peace, using art and some visual thinking strategies.

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Innovative pedagogies: from structure to process

20 & 21 June 2022

The workshop will focus on new developments in learning design and how these could be used in organizing learning experiences in Higher Education. We will focus on ways to innovate designing and leading learning experiences for students as an adult and (more) autonomous learners.

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Innovative pedagogies: new pathways to university teaching

23 June 2022 & 4 July 2022

The workshop aims at offering lecturers a short introduction to innovative pedagogies. Academics from different disciplines who practice a kind of innovative pedagogy in their teaching will bei invited to present and discuss their examples (4 examples from the CIVIS universities involved per workshop). The participants will have the opportunity to discuss on the transfer of innovative pedagogy models into other teaching contexts and on the development of teaching concepts in general. Further interesting aspects may be different cultures of teaching and learning and the interdisciplinary perspective.

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Pedagogy as a way of creating care relationships in education: inclusive pathways through digital learning experiences and art classes

10, 17 & 24 June 2022 and 1, 8, 15 & 22 July 2022

This is a webinar series based on 7 webinars designed to showcase some pedagogical approaches for an inclusive pedagogy toward students with special needs, with an emphasis on approaches adopting the Trialogical Learning Approach, an IP-based b) Methodology-based pedagogical innovation c) Skill-based pedagogical innovation. The webinars will be held in different languages, but all teachers will provide feedback in English. All teachers will also provide students with summaries in English of the contents they will talk about. If requested, some webinars would be offered in both languages.

For further information and to register, please visit the workshop webpage.