L’apprentissage confiné

Abstract

The University of Hasselt or UHasselt has a long tradition of didactic innovation. From its inception in 1972, the academic year was divided into six six-week periods with only a few courses in each period ending with a final assessment. Subsequently, internships were scheduled from the beginning of the course so that students would have the most concrete picture possible of their future working environment. In the early 2000s, it was decided that the training of students should prepare them as well as possible for a professional life integrating lifelong learning. In addition, their training should make maximum use of the possibilities offered by new technologies. At the same time, the university was instructed to examine how much and how different disciplines could use self-directed learning while reducing the volume of on-campus courses. The proposed target was one third face-to-face and two thirds self-directed. The calculation tool was the ECTS where one credit could only count for 27 hours. For a subject such as "Business French", which weighed six ECTS, this meant 54 hours of classroom teaching and 108 hours of autonomous teaching.