Last modified: 22 Oct 2019 09:15
This course is designed to expand participants’ sense of their wider learning and teaching activities through examining critical issues that are facing higher education currently. The course explores the wider educational, corporate, political and social contexts in which higher education operates, introducing participants to some of the latest research and thinking on learning and teaching. An underpinning principle of the course is to develop participants’ ability to critically review educational practice and education research. This course is aligned with the UK Professional Standards Framework for Learning & Teaching in H.E.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Academic identities, Technology-enhanced learning, corporate and political contexts of higher education, Graduates for tomorrow, Ownership/Co-creation of learning, Communities of practice, Re-examining theories of learning.
1 x 2-3-hour workshop during University weeks 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 32 | Feedback Weeks | 35 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided on MyAberdeen. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 39 | Feedback Weeks | 42 | |
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Written feedback will be provided via My Aberdeen Verbal and written feedback will be provided on Authentication/Observation of Practice. |
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| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | 26 | Feedback Weeks | 28 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided on MyAberdeen |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 48 | Feedback Weeks | 51 | |
| Feedback | Written feedback via MyAberdeen | |||
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 48 | Feedback Weeks | 51 | |
| Feedback | Written feedback via MyAberdeen | |||
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Create | Create arguments for change in learning and teaching practice beyond your own current sphere of influence, drawing on academic literature to support your arguments. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Critically evaluate educational literature in a field of your interest. |
| Reflection | Create | Create an action plan for your ongoing continual professional development as an educator; beyond the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning & Teaching. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Reflect critically on the experience of undertaking an ‘Authentication of Practice’ for FHEA or other peer review of practice. |
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