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ED503N: COMPONENTS OF THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:38


Course Overview

This course is designed to enable participants to begin to link educational practice, evidence and theory in order to design, deliver and evaluate courses and programmes for both undergraduates and taught postgraduates. It encourages participants to experiment with, and take a critical, scholarly stance on, different approaches to learning, teaching and assessment. Course workshops are designed to facilitate participants’ engagement with pedagogical literature, to challenge current approaches to teaching and to encourage planning for their further professional development in the learning and teaching arena.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Darren Comber

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Education (ED) (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Course design and planning (assessment, resourcing, learning systems, evaluation) Reflective practice. Assessment: principles, practice and alternative approaches. Approaches to teaching in H.E. Online tutoring: participation in an online learning session, critical reflection on the process in the light of participants’ own teaching. Theories of learning: introduction to the main schools of thought; critical reflection on their use in candidates’ own teaching. Peer observation of teaching by a colleague from a different discipline.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1 x 2000 word reflective report: (33%) and 1 x 4000 word course planning report (67%).

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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