ASU2: Challenges of Media in Education

In this Autonomous Study Unit (ASU), the following aspects will be examined with regard to Critical broadening of knowledge in relation to:

• new ways of teaching and learning cooperatively with media;
• audiovisual language and the power of influencing people’s everyday life; and
• the use of TV and video in education.

Creative reflection in relation to:

• new ways of teaching and learning cooperatively with media;
• the role of the university teacher in the new context of recently developed technologies and their application in education; and
• the role of Cooperative Learning in helping use the media.

In putting theory into practice in terms of new educational demands; participants develop activities through which to apply the use of media in daily experiences, and be abreast with the guiding principles of Cooperative Learning.