Syllabus

Instructor:

Dr. Valentina Borghesani - Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal; Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal.

Contact:

  • email: valentina(dot)borghesani[(at)gmail(dot)com

  • website: valentina.borghesani.org

Prerequisites:

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Learning Outcomes:

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Tools

Throughout the course we will be using the following tools:

  • This jupyterbook and all the links here provided

  • Ad-hoc slack channel (coming up)

  • Zoom

  • GoogleDrive

Please contact the instructor if you have any issue of access/availability with any of these software/platforms.

Schedule-driven grading

All students start the course with 100 points, and lose 2 points for every assignment that they don’t complete, discussion they don’t participate in, syncronous meeeting they don’t attend.

Flipped classroom

There are no standard lectures. Pre-recorded lecture videos and readings are provided. Students are required to watch/read them and complete a few questions. Weekly synchronous meetings are of two kinds

  • Q&A - I answer questions previously posted online and on-the-spot ones

  • Students-lead discussions around a predefined topic/problem

  • Problem-solving or tutorials

Further readings and acknowledgments

  • https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/education/why-um/problem-based-learning

  • https://medium.com/@patrickdkwatson/how-to-teach-without-a-classroom-ff6a1f074e90

  • http://www.russpoldrack.org/2021/04/teaching-statistics-online-for-first.html