Postgraduate Course: Designing Courses (EDUA11180)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
|
Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
This unit will focus on the design and development of courses, particularly but not exclusively at undergraduate level. It will include consideration of the vertical and horizontal relationships of courses with the rest of the curriculum and students= programmes of study. Emphasis will also be placed on the challenges for students in engaging fully with course content and processes, and how design decisions can enable the structuring and scaffolding of effective student learning.
The course will give participants the opportunity to critically examine key issues which arise and need to be resolved when designing new courses or redesigning existing ones. They will develop a keen awareness of the underpinning theoretical considerations and their implications for practice. At the same time the requirement to apply their knowledge and understanding by working with the development of a particular course will sharpen participants= appreciation of the affordances and constraints of contextual features, and encourage them to develop creative responses to real-life challenges.
Participants will be encouraged to expand their repertoire of strategies and practical approaches by moving outside their familiar frameworks and engaging in investigation and discussion across disciplinary boundaries. The course will also help advance participants= ability to communicate in appropriate ways to peers, senior colleagues and students the underlying rationales for choices made between competing possibilities.
|
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
|
Co-requisites |
|
| Prohibited Combinations |
|
Other requirements |
None
|
| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
|
| Delivery period: 2010/11 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
|
WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
44 hour(s) per week for 2 week(s). |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Successful completion of the course will enable participants to demonstrate:
- analytical engagement with key issues and writings on course design and development
- alertness to students= perspectives, their orientations and the challenges they face
- critical reflection on course purposes and their articulation, with course activities and assessment & both conceptually and within specific contexts
- awareness of ways of monitoring, reviewing and taking forward course development
- appropriate attention to the place of a course in an overall programme of study and issues of progression
|
Assessment Information
The coursework assignment requires participants to consider, in greater depth and within the context of a specific course in their own disciplinary area, some of the key challenges and practical issues that need to be addressed in the design and/or redesign of courses. They will apply the knowledge and understanding gained during the module and through further enquiry and engagement with relevant literature by undertaking one of two possible tasks (full details are provided at
http://www.tla.ed.ac.uk/courses/PGCert/Designing%20Courses.htm |
Special Arrangements
| Pre-course reading, in-course reading as well as assignment preparation complement face-to-face teaching/learning activities to a total of 100 notional effort hours. |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords |
Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Prof Carolin Kreber
Tel: (0131 6)51 6668
Email: carolin.kreber@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Emily Salvesen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6661
Email: Emily.Salvesen@ed.ac.uk |
|
copyright 2011 The University of Edinburgh -
13 January 2011 5:55 am
|
University Homepage