Postgraduate UND-EDUC5116-2023

Designing Curriculum for Effective Learning

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Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% Online

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Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Start dates

24 Jul 2023

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Subject details

What you'll learn

On completion of this subject students should be able to achieve the following learning outcomes:

Critically analyse and integrate learning theories, models, concepts and research informed techniques for curriculum design to support improved outcomes for diverse learners
Analyse and critically evaluate current trends in learning and teaching in Higher Education which may inform curriculum design
Select curriculum planning and design processes that are fit for purpose and initiate, plan and create curricula for contemporary higher educational contexts
Evaluate and utilise learning technologies to support blended learning design and active teaching strategies that promote student engagement and learning
Critically review and renew curriculum as part of an iterative continuous improvement process
Apply a range of communication skills in learning and teaching communities of practice.

Topics covered

- Context of curriculum design
- What is Curriculum?
- Core Principles of Curriculum Design
- Accounting for Student Diversity in Curriculum Design
- Constructive Alignment in Curriculum Design
- Developing Learning Outcomes
- Contextual Factors influencing Curriculum Design (Situational Analysis)
- The External Context - Australian
- Higher Education Frameworks and Standards
- Pedagogical models of instruction
- Curriculum Structures
- Models of Instruction
- Developing, Aligning and Mapping Curriculum
- Curriculum structures
- The learning environment
- Creating learning sequences with curriculum mapping
- Universal design for learning

Entry requirements

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

UND-HED-GDI-2023
UND-HED-GCE-2023
UND-HED-MAS-2023

Elective

UND-HPE-MAS-2023
UND-HPE-GDI-2023
UND-HPE-GCE-2023

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Description

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.

Assessments

7 Minute Oral Presentation with 10 minutes for Questions - 30% Written Plan - Lesson Plans and Rationale (500 words) - 30% Course Overview (1500 Words), Curriculum Design Grid and Two Lesson Plans - 40%