Learning and Teaching in the Higher Education and Science (PIC_010)
About Study Course
Objective
To provide opportunities for doctoral students to enrich the competence necessary for academic work and career in order to: understand current issues in higher education, pedagogy of higher education institution; and to purposefully implement a student-centered study process.
Prerequisites
General knowledge in pedagogy.
Learning outcomes
- Interprets the contexts of higher education experience and development in Latvia and internationally;
- Orients in the principles of theory and practice of student-centered pedagogy;
- Knows how to design a study course focused on study outcome achievement;
- Understands the nature, approaches, and methods of assessment of learning and teaching achievements;
- Analyzes the current pedagogical challenges and development directions in the field of higher education and science;
- Chooses legitimate pedagogical approaches, teaching methods, technologies and technological solutions appropriate to the set pedagogical goal and students' learning needs;
- Integrates the findings of the doctoral research into the modeling of one's pedagogical activity;
- Evaluates the students' learning process, outcomes, and the professional activity of the university lecturer.
- Independently and reasonably propose conceptual solutions for the development of pedagogical innovations in higher education;
- Reasonably critically evaluates one's own and colleagues' pedagogical competence to implement interdisciplinary research and evidence-based pedagogical activity.
