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 |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This unit focuses on the design and development of courses, particularly but not exclusively at undergraduate level. It includes consideration of the vertical and horizontal relationships of courses with the rest of the curriculum and students' programmes of study. Emphasis is 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 gives participants the opportunity to critically examine key issues which arise and need to be resolved when designing new courses or redesigning existing ones. They 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 sharpens participants' appreciation of the affordances and constraints of contextual features, and encourages them to develop creative responses to real-life challenges.
Participants are 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 also helps advance participants' ability to communicate in appropriate ways to peers, senior colleagues and students the underlying rationales for choices made between competing possibilities.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 14,
Online Activities 1,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 8,
Other Study Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
74 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| 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
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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 course and through further enquiry and engagement with relevant literature by undertaking one of two possible tasks. |
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 |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Janice Mcarthur
Tel: (0131 6)51 6674
Email: Jan.McArthur@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Emily Salvesen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6661
Email: Emily.Salvesen@ed.ac.uk |
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