Undergraduate Course: Self-Designed Learning: 10 Credits, SCQF Level 8: Moray House School of Education (EDUA08110)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
| Course type | Student-Led Individually Created Course |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course forms part of the Student-Led Individually Created Course (SLICC) university-wide framework for self-designed learning. Undertaking a SLICC enables you to create a learning experience which is unique, while demonstrating your learning and academic achievement against defined learning outcomes.
This level 8 course will require you to demonstrate the development of your skills and understanding in terms of critical analysis, application, reflection, and evaluation within a defined context of your learning experience. This course will also enable you to demonstrate your ability to exercise autonomy and initiative at a professional level in practice and/or in a subject/discipline (or other approved) area.
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| Course description |
A SLICC requires you to propose, develop and manage a unique learning experience that will enable you to evidence how you have achieved the learning outcomes of the course.
Your self-designed learning experience is required to adhere to a defined structure that supports and enables you to self-direct and manage your own learning experience. Within this structure however you have limitless possibilities regarding the topic or theme, content of study and nature of your experience, provided your proposal is academically feasible and is approved by your tutor.
A SLICC, for example, may be based upon a particular learning opportunity such as an internship, work experience, pro-bono activity, community engagement, volunteering, or study-abroad and may also focus on a theme of personal interest such as sustainability, social responsibility, equality and cultural diversity, or a discipline-based research theme.
The steps in undertaking a SLICC are as follows;
1) Identify a suitable opportunity within which to undertake your learning experience
2) Write your draft proposal and submit to your tutor/advisor for approval
3) Self-direct and manage your own learning experience
4) Actively and regularly reflect upon and document your experience and use that as a basis for writing your final self-critical reflective report
5) Formatively self-assess and submit your coursework for summative assessment by your tutor.
The steps identified above each require a significant amount of thought and input and will ultimately form part of a 'time-based' portfolio of evidence which will be used in the assessment of your SLICC.
Undertaking a SLICC you will not only develop the content of your learning experience but also produce an agreed portfolio of outputs where you must evidence what you have learned and, importantly, where you demonstrate how you met the learning outcomes for the course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Coursework
Additional Information (Assessment)
A SLICC is assessed via three key components, a reflective report, an agreed portfolio of outputs and a formative self-assessment.
Self-Critical Reflective Report
The reflective report is a key component of your assessment and you are expected to document and demonstrate active self-critical reflection and responses to your learning throughout your experience.
Portfolio of evidence
At the proposal approval stage for your SLICC, your tutor/advisor will discuss and agree with you what outputs and information need to be created, collated and submitted in your portfolio. This portfolio will support and provide evidence for your learning and development of skills throughout your SLICC. Your portfolio should be constructed throughout the duration of your learning experience, demonstrating evolution, iteration and progress over-time.
Formative Self-Assessment
An equally important component of your final submission, in addition to your ability to self-critically reflect on your experience, is to demonstrate your understanding of your achievements through graded self-assessment. In your self-assessment you are required to demonstrate the alignment of the grades given by you for each learning outcome to the justification for them and where this is evidenced within your portfolio.
The SLICC framework is supported by the PebblePad learning environment and the proposal, portfolio of evidence and submission for assessment is all managed online.
Additional Information
Where specific assessment requirements and a word limit for the reflective report is stipulated in the context of the proposed learning experience, this will be confirmed as part of the formal proposal approval.
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| Feedback |
A SLICC differs significantly from a taught course and academic input is deliberately kept to a minimum. Students will be introduced to self-designed learning through preparatory workshops and will receive academic support in the proposal development stages. Once approved, you must then self-direct and manage your learning experience with no or minimal further involvement from your tutors.
After assessment you should arrange a tutorial with your SLICC tutor/advisor to discuss and receive feedback on your self-designed learning experience and the achievement of the Learning Outcomes.
Students are required to make their PebblePad Workbook and Webfolio available for academic review at the commencement of their learning experience.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate how my understanding of the defined context of the learning experience has developed throughout the experience
- select and apply relevant professional and/or personal skills to effectively undertake and develop the learning experience within the defined context
- evaluate and critically reflect upon my approach in relation to the learning and development achieved within the specific context
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Learning Resources
The SLICC framework provides a range of online tools and learning resources to support students undertaking self-designed learning.
In addition you should identify your intended reading and range of resources to support your independent learning in your proposal.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Undertaking a SLICC will enable each student to develop their abilities in self-critical reflection, organisation and time-management, self-assessment, evaluation of standards and competencies achieved, application of prior learning in a defined context, and provide opportunities to further develop analytical and presentation skills. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Students must attend designated SLICC induction workshops prior to submitting their proposal for review and approval. There is also a requirement to maintain an online blog for the duration of the learning experience indicating continuous self-critical reflection on progress.
Students can undertake a SLICC while they are either in or away from Edinburgh |
| Keywords | Critical Reflection; Self-Assessment; Evaluating; Planning; Learning; Adapting; Change; Analysis; M |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Ian Pirie
Tel: (0131 6)51 4490
Email: Ian.Pirie@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Gavin Mccabe
Tel:
Email: gavin.mccabe@ed.ac.uk |
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