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Doris Vasconcellos
Associate Professor
University of Paris Descartes
European Context
During the next five years
all European countries will experience
a major turnover of faculties.
This is a unique opportunity
to coordinate the training of new faculty
all over Europe
A short story…
United Kingdom
Annie Trapp
Higher Education Academy Psychology Network
http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/
European Community grants for
Thematic Networks:
Lifelong Learning Program
First meeting:
Royal Holloway College, London
10 and 11 August 2007
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United Kingdom
France
Holland
Austria
Sweden
Czech Republic
EUROPLAT steering committee
Second Meeting
Villa Finaly, Florence
30 January, 1 & 2 February, 2008
Fifteen countries represented:
Ten others to be contacted:
Austria
Cyprus
France
Holland
Lithuania
Portugal
Slovenia
United Kingdom
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Germany
Italy
Poland
Romania
Spain
Luxemburg, Hungary, Belgium,
Ireland, Denmark, Estonia,
Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, Greece
www.europlat.org
Professor Joerg Zumbach
Salzburg University
• Define and promote innovative teaching methods.
• Identify pedagogical resources and make them
available to the network members.
• Develop procedures to evaluate teaching methods
and results.
• Award a certification of teaching training for
graduate students.
• Extend jobs opportunities for psychology graduate
students.
• Propose symposia on teaching psychology at all
international conferences on psychology so as to make
researchers and professionals aware of teaching
methodologies: ICP Berlin July 2008, Oslo 2009
• Establish an annual EUROPLAT Summer School for
the pedagogical training of graduate students from all
European countries.
• Promote exchange of graduate students and
professors among the universities of all member
countries.
• Organize in every member country an annual national
meeting on psychology learning and teaching.
Survey of undergraduate students
about teaching methods employed in Paris Descartes :
Make course structure clearer
Deeper content
More multimedia support
Avoid classes that are a PowerPoint reading
More on-line courses
Better designed MCQ
Make answers to exams questions available on-line
• Promote
active learning and critical thinking
• Improve students’ capacity to make oral and poster
presentations
• Give access to the latest research on teaching methods
and techniques
• Use on-line, e-learning and other modern technologies
• Teach large classes
• Manage classes with students from different cultures
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