PEDAGOGICAL AND TEACHING COMPETENCE

Graduates of the MSc in “Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education” acquire a certificate of Pedagogical and Teaching Competence.

The teaching subjects offered for the acquisition of Pedagogical and Teaching Competence are included in the Curriculum of the MSc. (Table 3 above) and fall within the following subject areas:

Education and education issues (Education and education issues (Open Distance Education and Adult Education, Methodology of Educational Research, Methods of Evaluation of the Educational Project, Economics of Education and Lifelong Learning.

Issues of Learning and Teaching (Theories of Learning and Educational Practice, Special Topics in Neuropsychology and Applications in the Educational Process, Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Children and Adolescents with Learning Difficulties, Human-Computer Interaction and Empowered Learning Environments).

Special Didactics (Special Didactics (, Multimedia Applications and Transmedia in Education, Educational Software Development Applications and Tools, Principles of Educational Software Design, Applications of Informatics in Environmental Education).

Courses in Infrastructure and Basic Concepts of Informatics and ICT (Research Methodology, Computer Programming Topics, Statistical Methods, Information Technologies-Network Infrastructures and Internet Applications, Digital Security and Privacy.

The MSc students of the direction “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education” will be mandatory, in addition to other obligations:

• have taken at least one course from each of the first three (3) categories, i.e. at least one course from the category “Education and Educational Issues”, one course from the category “Learning and Teaching Issues” and one course from the category “Special Teaching”, and
• b) have successfully completed their obligations for the Teaching Practice course. The practical teaching exercises are carried out according to the attached “Exercise Regulations for the course Teaching Practice Placement in Primary and Secondary Education” which forms an integral part of this document.

Graduate students who are graduates of Pedagogical Departments or already hold a Certificate of Pedagogical Competence, are exempted from the obligation to attend the course of the Teaching Practice placement and will have to choose another course from the curriculum.