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Study graduate diploma online with University of Notre Dame Australia through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

This highly-focused program provides opportunities for you to apply your knowledge of current perspectives about university teaching. You will finish the program with the capabilities to teach from a learner-centred approach, incorporate technology to enhance student engagement, and grow in a community of practice to create pedagogical research projects. The Program is underpinned by a growth model that recognises that higher education teachers are learners, and that growth requires a scholarly approach. With this in mind, the program has been created so that you can complete four courses to earn the Graduate Certificate and another four (eight courses in total) to earn the Graduate Diploma. It also provides the foundation for the proposed Master in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education by coursework.

A highly focused postgraduate course for students working towards their Masters or preparing to teach adult learners in a university setting. Cover off curriculum, assessment, and evaluation. Pick from electives including leadership and globalisation.

Graduate Diploma of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Students will apply their knowledge and experience of learning and teaching to design a pedagogical action research project which aims to enhance student learning. The focus is likely to be at the course level, and might investigate a specific practice such as assessment, work integrated learning/professional placement or learning strategies or activities. The design will utilise an action research framework which will require students to consider a targeted intervention, and critically select the most appropriate social research methods and tools, to collect and interpret data. The learning from this course will be synthesised in a mock Research Proposal and Research Ethics Application.

Designing a Pedagogical Action Research Project

A high standard of supervision is central to the retention of research students and the completion of their course requirements. The purpose of this subject is to develop an understanding of what constitutes best practice for supervising research students and provide an opportunity for students to reflect on and enhance their own supervisory practice. Students will deepen their understanding of the processes involved, and develop their skills and personal resources to equip them with the capacity to manage the challenges of supervision. This subject is designed for academic staff who are, or who intend, to supervise students undertaking all levels of research including Masters and Honours dissertations and Higher Degrees by Research.

Supervising Postgraduate Research

Good assessment and evaluation in Higher Education has the potential to improve student learning, satisfaction, confidence in academic standards and retention. This subject allows teachers in higher education to advance their understanding of contemporary assessment practice by a critical engagement with contemporary assessment literature. From this foundation, students have the opportunity to examine how assessment is woven into the teaching and learning cycle and design and develop assessment instruments appropriate to Higher Education.

Principles and Practices of Assessment and Evaluation

The lens used to create curriculum in this course is constructive alignment. Students will examine curricula as an iterative design that is a product developed through: shared deliberation on context, policy, politics; scholarship of teaching and learning; and pedagogical imagination. This includes opportunities to examine curricula paradigms for inclusion, blended learning, research, constructivist approaches and authentic workplace and service-learning. Curriculum is presented as space that should be negotiated, communicated, managed and improved within clear processes that reflect quality practices. With this grounding students can build and evaluate a teaching activity, module, course and / or a course.

Designing Curriculum for Effective Learning

This subject introduces students to current perspectives on university teaching across the disciplines and professions. Educational theory and best practice are explored as a way to develop learning and teaching skills and encourage student engagement. As part of the subject, students undertake a series of practical tasks related to the professional practice of learning and teaching in academic, workplace and clinical settings. Reflecting current trends, the subject explores blended learning and mobile technologies and supports students in reflecting on their practice in relation to Australian standards for Higher Education.

Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education

Students will be sensitised to the issues of wellbeing in the academy, and will be encouraged to take a proactive approach to self-care and support the wellbeing of those they teach. Designing curriculum for wellbeing from an evidence and strengths based approach is core to the course. Students will be prompted to consider how belonging, relationships, autonomy, and competence can be harnessed in designing curriculum. Design takes into account assessment tasks and feedback principles that support student wellbeing.

Learning and Teaching for Optimal Wellbeing

Higher education requires leaders who are adept at managing continuous change, transparency, consultation, collaboration and accountability. This subject takes a growth approach to assist academics to be effective leaders in learning and teaching and actively advance their careers. It does this through providing a foundation in leadership capabilities and competencies, contemporary leadership theories, and values-based strategic leadership frameworks.

Leadership in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Students are introduced to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and its identity as a discipline with a dedicated research base. It examines the role of SoTL in the practice of educators in higher education and how SoTL can be used to enhance and evidence positive student outcomes. It explores the means by which educators can engage in SoTL, share practice globally and improve their practice. It requires students to critically analyse their own and others’ learning and teaching practice and to reflectively plan for improvements.

Introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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