Undergraduate Course: Self-Designed Learning: 20 Credits, SCQF Level 10: Moray House School of Education (EDUA10185)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
| Course type | Student-Led Individually Created Course |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| 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 10 course will require you to demonstrate the development of your skills and understanding in terms of critical analysis, reflection, evaluation and synthesis
In the context of your learning experience and in relation to complex problems/issues/challenges.
Undertaking learning which is experiential, self-directed and reflective will also allow you to develop meta-cognitive skills, for example through analysing and critically reflecting on how you approach and develop your own learning processes.
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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 self-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 portfolio of evidence. This portfolio of evidence will be part of your summative assessment as it will evidence your learning and development which you will critically reflect on in your final report.
Undertaking a SLICC you will not only develop the content of your learning experience but also you will also produce an agreed portfolio of outputs where you will evidence what you have learned and, importantly, where you demonstrate how you met the learning outcomes for the course.
In addition to 3 compulsory learning outcomes you will be able to choose 2 optional learning outcomes from the list below:
Optional LO SYNTHESIS - I will be able to demonstrate the development of my professional techniques, attributes and understanding in terms of assessing and synthesising evidence/data/concepts/theories from a range of sources to develop and effectively articulate my own critical understanding of a specific problem/challenge/issue.
Optional LO CREATION - I will be able to demonstrate the development of my skills, attributes and understanding in terms of designing and/or developing insightful and relevant innovative or creative approaches and/or solutions to complex and/or unpredictable problems/challenges.
Optional LO COMMUNICATION - I will be able to demonstrate the development of my skills, attributes and understanding in terms of communicating/disseminating relevant and specialised knowledge, learning, ideas, data and/or arguments effectively for a specialist/informed/professional audience, adapting communication methods to suit the needs of this audience and the purpose of the communication.
Optional LO COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE- I will be able to demonstrate and critically reflect on the development of my skills and attributes in terms of engaging in collaborative learning and/or practice demonstrating autonomy and awareness of others' perspectives.
Optional LO EXPERIMENTATION / RISK - I will be able to demonstrate the development of my skills, attributes and understanding in terms of appreciating the value of risk-taking and experimentation, and the opportunities for developing my own learning that can be gained from both success and failure.
You will be required to write a contextual (interpretive) statement for each learning outcome as part of your proposal, indicating your understanding of what this Learning Outcome means in the context of your learning experience along with the evidence you intend to produce to demonstrate your achievement of the Learning Outcomes.
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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 2016/17, 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:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
A SLICC is assessed via three discrete but related submissions:
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 the SLICC. Your portfolio should be constructed throughout the duration of your learning experience, demonstrating evolution 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 final submission for assessment is all managed online.
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| Feedback |
A SLICC differs significantly from a taught course and academic input is deliberately kept to a minimum. You 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 the development of my skills, attributes and understanding in terms of identifying, defining and critically analysing specific academic, professional or other approved issues and challenges relevant to the context of my learning experience
- demonstrate the development of my skills, attributes and understanding in terms of analysing and critically evaluating multiple methods and/or strategies in order to identify most appropriate approaches to specific academic, professional or other approved issues and challenges within the defined context
- demonstrate the development of my skills, attributes and understanding in terms of effectively planning, self-managing and critically reflecting my own learning, appreciating the benefits to be gained from adapting to changing circumstances and/or bringing about positive change
- Learning outcome 4 is individually selected by the student from the defined list of optional learning outcomes described above and is validated as part of the SLICC approval process by the assigned tutors for each student
- Learning outcome 5 is individually selected by the student from the defined list of optional learning outcomes described above and is validated as part of the SLICC approval process by the assigned tutors for each student
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Learning Resources
| Learning resources and required reading are provided online within the SLICC Workbook in the PebblePad learning platform. |
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 induction workshops prior to submitting their proposal for review and approval. There is also a requirements 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 | Dr Simon Riley
Tel: (0131) 242 6423
Email: Simon.C.Riley@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Linda Craig
Tel: (0131 6)51 6449
Email: linda.craig@ed.ac.uk |
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