Instructional Design: Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Full course description
The aim of this project is to give students the opportunity to learn more about education and teaching and instructional design. For participating students, it will be an opportunity to gain experience with developing and designing intended learning outcomes and then implementing teaching and learning activities for a target group and audience. Students will inform themselves on different approaches to teaching and apply them to preparing lesson plans for e.g. lectures, trainings, workshops. The content of the project is considered relevant for students who, in their future career, would like to teach knowledge or train skills in a wide variety of settings such as universities and schools but also businesses, organisations and institutions.
Course objectives
Students will be able to:
- Describe, explain and apply a taxonomy for teaching and learning.
- Describe, explain, apply and analyze constructive alignment in education by means of intended learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities, and assessment tasks.
- Describe, explain, apply, and analyze a framework for instructional strategy design, and design instructional strategies and instructional events.
- Describe, explain, apply, analyze and design strategies for motivation in learning.
- Design teaching and learning activities that align with intended learning outcomes.
- Design assessment tasks that align with intended learning outcomes.
- Create a lesson plan and implement it in practice with a selected audience.
- Evaluate a lesson plan based on implementation in practice.
Prerequisites
It is necessary that students have passed several courses, skills trainings, and projects on a 2000 level and/or a 3000 level in Humanities, Sciences, and/or Social Sciences. The reason is that students will base their instructional design on a topic they have developed academic interest in and expertise on. It is therefore also recommended for students to participate in their fourth semester or later.
Recommended
SKI2007 Presentation Skills; SSC1005 Introduction to Psychology; SSC2019 Social Psychology; SSC3019 Human Reasoning and Complex Cognition.
Students who participated in and passed a previous edition of SKI3050 Preparing Conference and PRO3006 Conference should not sign up for this project due to overlap in content.
Note that this is a project of 7.5 ECTS and is considered the equivalent of one regular 3000 level skills training and one regular 3000 level project. It runs over one regular course period and one project period.