Teaching Week : What will teaching be like in the future?
Between the 21st and 24th of November, the University of Liège is hosting its edition of Teaching Week ("Semaine de l'Enseignement"). As part of the university's bicentennial celebrations, this Week is placed under the label of the future and will focus on a key theme : Teaching at ULiège today and how it will be in the future?
Spanning 4 days, exchanges, presentations and discussions concerning teaching methods will be scheduled as part of a week designed by and for ULiège professors and members of the university community.
These professors will discuss how they design and implement their lessons, the objectives they give, the challenges they overcome and the University of which they dream.
An inaugural conference titled Importance for Europe to have world-class research universities? will open the week on Tuesday 21 November.
Between Wednesday 22 and Friday 24 November, the week will comprise conferences, round tables, demonstrations and workshops based on 3 key themes :
- Decompartmentalising the education of students (Wednesday 22 November)
- Students today and tomorrow: Looking towards new technologies (Thursday 23 November)
- Evolutions in university teaching (Friday 24 November)
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An inaugural conference open to the general public
To open Teaching Week, Patrick Aebischer, President of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Professor of neurosciences and Director of the Neurodegeneration Laboratory at the EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute, will present an inaugural conference entitled : “Importance for Europe to have world-class research universities?”
As a lead-in to this conference, Patrick Aebischer will receive the rank of Doctor honoris causa.
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3 days of exchanges and discussions for ULiège profesors
From Wednesday to Friday, plenary conferences, workshops, round table discussions and demonstrations will be on the schedule based on three themes.
Decompartmentalisation, innovative experiences, new technologies, virtual reality, gamification, etc; all new teaching methods will be discussed and questioned by thirty participants with various profiles.
