Being a student is quite a job, requiring a varied range of skills!
Once every four months, the University of Namur offers its MOOC (free online course) "Aim for success: become a super student" to prepare you for higher studies and perfect your study methods.
Become a super student!
This online course, already taken by over 22,500 learners, is free and open to all. It can be followed at your own pace, and offers a series of activities to reinforce or acquire an effective learning method for higher education.
Public
This course is aimed at:
- the students in the last two years of secondary school (all French-speaking countries)
- the students in their first and second year of higher education (high school or university)
- the adults returning to school
but also...
- to accompagnateurs/accompagnatrices pédagogiques d'aide à la réussite dans les établissements
- to secondary school teachers who would accompany a class group
- to higher education teachers who want to support the methodological reinforcement of their students
- to pedagogical advisors in higher education
- to parents of a 5th and 6th year secondary school student or a 1st year higher education student
Content and teaching methods
The MOOC is organized into several modules, which we recommend you follow as follows:
| Week | Module and content |
| 1 | Introduction: aims, practicalities and how the MOOC works + placement test to identify your needs on study methods in higher education |
| 2 | Module 1: getting down to work and staying there |
| 3 | Module 2: managing your time and getting organized |
| 4 | Module 3: deal actively with your subject matter |
| 5 | Module 4: memorize to mobilize your knowledge in concrete situations |
| 6 | Module 5: be autonomous in learning |
| 7 | Module 6: managing your academic emotions |
| 8 | Bonus module: managing distance learning and closing the MOOC |
This MOOC is based on differentiated learning according to the needs of each individual. For each module, the learner is actually put into action to promote learning. He or she has the opportunity to interact with other participants or with the teacher accompanying him or her in the MOOC (if the teacher has requested this).
Concretely, you'll find: a positioning test, a serious game, videos, explanatory videos, quizzes, texts to browse through, exercises to complete, tools to test and download, tests, forums, badges, ...
Objectives
Based on twenty years of experience in providing methodological support to students, this MOOC aims to:
- Equip students with personal, effective work methods adapted to their various courses;
- Enable students to get to know themselves better in terms of study methods thanks to personalized pathways, based on self-assessment questionnaires, throughout the MOOC ;
- Tool students with effective strategies in an active way by enabling them to test these strategies directly and appropriate them through scripted sequences;
- Understand how we function when we learn so that we learn more effectively.
This MOOC will issue a final participation badge (under certain conditions).
Contact
Charlotte SINE