Active and Participatory Methodologies in Higher Education

The program is online, spanning 4 weeks, divided into 4 missions, utilising the flipped classroom model to illustrate its application.

The missions are objective-oriented, meaning they include an initial set of activities to be carried out in asynchronous mode, which culminates in submitting a project related to the mission and immediately applicable in each participant's teaching context.

According to the flipped classroom model, the end of each mission includes an online synchronous session lasting approximately 2 hours, during which projects are presented and discussed, studied topics are further explored, and any questions or issues are addressed and clarified.

This training program aims to increase the use of active and participative methodologies in higher education, in addition to or in place of conventional lectures.

Thus, upon completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Effectively combine synchronous and asynchronous teaching-learning activities according to the flipped classroom model;
• Design exciting and interactive teaching-learning syllabi to be taught asynchronously;
• Correctly use participatory techniques applicable in face-to-face small and large classes;
• Sequence the asynchronous and synchronous activities from the most elementary to the more cognitively complex learning;
• Using AI in an innovative way as a tool to enhance learning.

Higher education teachers

MODULES

Introduction

• Presenting the syllabus
• Presenting the platform
• Personal commitment to learning

Mission 1: Converting a conventional class to a flipped classroom;

• The flipped classroom and its rationale
• Coordination and complementarity between asynchronous work and synchronous sessions
• Distributing the learning activities between both modes, learning development.

Mission 2: Planning a participatory synchronous class for small groups

• Participatory techniques for small groups
• Exploring AI resources

Mission 3: Planning a participatory synchronous class for large groups

• Specific problems posed by large groups and strategies to solve them.
• Participatory techniques for large groups; auxiliary applications.
• Exploring AI resources.

Mission 4: A one-week synchronous mode study program involving various types of activities

• A variety of asynchronous activities and their relationship with learning types.
• Programming learning in an asynchronous context.
• Creative use of AI as an enabler of learning in an asynchronous context (e.g. building and improving chatbots).