Postgraduate taught 

Academic Practice MEd: Online distance learning

Course Design in your Discipline EDUC5983

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: Academic and Digital Development
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Repeated in Semesters 1 and 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

Designing a course can be a challenging yet fulfilling opportunity for staff involved in teaching and learning. This course gives you a chance to design a course in your own subject or discipline in a supportive environment. It will cover: developing a rationale for introducing a new course; designing an aligned course; considering inclusive curricula; including assessment and feedback that enhances your students' learning and developing learning activities.

Timetable

There are approximately 40 hours of facilitated study on this course. Around 8 hours are 'online live', synchronous sessions online (approximately weekly). Six of these are seminars, with a two hour tutorial. Much of the remaining timetable involves asynchronous 'online anytime' learning activities designed by the lecturers for you to complete. Lecturers will provide guidance on when these asynchronous activities would be best attempted (e.g. before or after 'online live' sessions).

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Complete a course design pro-forma (around 2000 words in total), linked to appropriate dimensions of the PSF, that includes the following elements:

■ A rationale for your proposed course (around 750 words)

■ Aims

■ Intended learning outcomes

■ Assessments

■ Sample learning activities

■ Your response to formative feedback

Course Aims

This course aims to focus your teaching development more strongly on your particular discipline. You will be given an opportunity to develop and design a course in your discipline involving constructive alignment of ILOs and assessment, down to the details of some specific learning activities. You will be supported to work with colleagues from related disciplines, but will also be encouraged to engage with a wider range of colleagues from across the University to support your deepening understanding of learning, teaching and assessment specific to your discipline. Through exploring course design in your discipline you will continue to develop evidence to claim additional dimensions of the PSF [A1, A4, K1, K2, K4, K5, V1, V2, V3, V4 and V5].

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course you should be able to:

1. Design a constructively aligned course within the context of a programme in your subject area [A1, A4]; and

2. Justify your course design using relevant literature, scholarship, and quality and academic standards frameworks relevant to your context [K1, K2, K4, K5, V1, V2, V3, V4, V5].

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.