Foundations of University Learning and Teaching

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  5 weeks, 3 hours a week, 3 hours a week

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  This course provides an introduction to approaches and methods used to evaluate and enhance your teaching, and your students’ learning. The key question we answer is “How do you know you are doing a good job?”. In this course we will help you to improve your practice and the student learning experience to make learning and teaching in higher education more effective.

  Explore a model to help you with the enhancement and evaluation process

  In the course we will present a systematic approach to enhancing learning through evaluating your teaching using a model that guides you through a number of questions including:

  • What is the purpose of evaluation?
  • How can you evaluate your teaching, educational materials or courses?
  • What is the context of the evaluation?
  • Who are the stakeholders affected by the evaluation process?
  • What evaluation tools are already be available to you?
  • How can you design your own evaluation tools?
  • How can you best reflect on the whole evaluation process to enhance your teaching and your students’ learning?

  Reflect on your own teaching

  Through the course we will encourage you to reflect on your practice, carry out a mini self-evaluation and share your findings to demonstrate the variety of methods and tools that can be used to evaluate practice.

  By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Describe ways to evidence quality in learning and teaching
  • Compare different approaches to evaluation
  • Evaluate forms of feedback for enhancing educational practice
  • Demonstrate the application of an evaluation process in your practice

  This course is suitable for teachers, educational designers and those supporting teaching and learning within higher education.

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  2 weeks, 3 hours a week, 3 hours a week

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  Central to effective teaching is providing students with strong educational design that offers opportunities to independently and collaboratively explore and acquire knowledge. Students can then apply what is learned to different contexts, in order to demonstrate that the learning outcomes have been achieved

  This course will introduce you to effective educational design - taking into account the evolving higher education environment and current research into curriculum, educational design, assessment and feedback that supports student learning.

  Explore what makes good educational design

  Developing effective educational design requires careful planning and structured thinking to scaffold learning in order to maximise students’ potential for success.

  In this course you will identify the principles and key steps teachers need to take to design effective educational opportunities for their students.

  The course is based on the recognition that learning is most effective when it is guided by clear expectations, academic standards and an integrated curriculum, where the various components of the program, courses, classes, field trips, etc. are identified, aligned and linked to assessment.

  Learn how to apply educational design in your own context

  Students learn best when they are actively engaged: when they interact with their peers, tutors and course resources, when they are reflective and have opportunities to apply this knowledge.

  Successful design therefore needs to ensure that students are given opportunities to take an active, interactive and reflective role in their studies. This course will provide you with an educational framework and an opportunity to design effective educational materials you can use in your own higher education context.

  Understand learning experiences from start to finish

  This course explores the relationship between the focus of the course, learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities and assessment.

  By the end of the course you’ll be able to:

  • Describe established curriculum and learning design principles which support student learning in your context

  • Identify the role of constructive alignment and the principles of assessment and relate them to your context

  • Compare and contrast learning design models

  • Apply an integrated model to (re)design components of a course of study aligned to a program

  This course is suitable for teachers, educational designers and those supporting learning and teaching within higher education.

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  3 weeks, 3 hours a week, 3 hours a week

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  Traditional views of education have shifted. Teachers now do far more facilitation of learning as opposed to simply seeing their role as transferring knowledge. We’re now seeing student focused and learner centred approaches being the norm - approaches that change the roles and responsibilities of teachers and learners. This course will introduce you to student-focused approaches and general principles of teaching and learning at a university level.

  Learn about the basic principles of teaching and learning in higher education

  In this course you will be introduced to well-known educational perspectives on how students approach learning. You’ll be drawing on your experiences and the experiences of your peers. As both learners and teachers, you’ll begin to develop a framework for enhancing learning through design thinking and interaction.

  This course looks at questions like:

  • How do students approach learning?
  • What is ‘quality’ teaching?
  • How does teaching change in different learning contexts?

  Explore the roles of the teacher and student approaches to learning

  The changing role of teachers in higher education often requires more of a facilitative approach to teaching while students are encouraged to take on more responsibility for their learning. You will learn about some of the foundational concepts that underpin quality teaching and hear teachers at UNSW explain their approaches to teaching within their specific disciplines.

  Explore teaching and assessing in different contexts

  Online and face-to-face interaction, collaboration and application in context is key to learning. With the rapid growth in learning and teaching online teachers are required to reconsider their teaching practices to take advantage of the benefits of each context. You will be encouraged to consider these issues in discussion with other learners.

  By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Describe your own experiences, from the perspectives of a learner, an educational designer or teacher with reference to current theories of learning

  • Discuss the relevance of established theories about learning and teaching to your practice

  • Identify issues and strategies which impact on students learning including the role of assessment

  • Demonstrate your understanding of student learning by applying established theories to your context

  This course is suitable for teachers, educational designers and those supporting teaching and learning within higher education.

Taught by

Marina Harvey and Bob Fox

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