Course Organisation and Management (P02197)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : EDU-P-P02197

This unit option aims to provide existing and aspiring course organisers with an opportunity to identify and critically analyse what is entailed in managing and leading an undergraduate or taught postgraduate course unit in contemporary higher education. The unit will therefore be concerned with mapping and examining key roles, responsibilities and skills; reviewing practices and strategies for communication and interaction with students and within and across the course team; and planning, implementing and reviewing changes designed to enhance course effectiveness.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : For new lecturers participation in the two day orientation to teaching at the University of Edinburgh offered by the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment is a course requirement.

? Special Arrangements for Entry : Pre-course reading, in-course reading and follow-up reading as well as assignment preparation complement face-to-face teaching/learning activities to a total of 100 notional effort hours.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Education, (The Moray House School of Education, Schedule C)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 7 hour(s) per week for 2 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 43 hour(s) per week for 2 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of the unit, programme participants will have:
- dissected and appraised the main roles and responsibilities associated with course organisation and management
- reviewed and evaluated some key organisational and managerial challenges
- sought systematically to enhance the understanding and analytical and communicative expertise which these challenges call for

Assessment Information

Participants, working in pairs or threes, will be invited to interview a small sample of experienced course organisers in their own or cognate subject areas about their work, and draw appropriately on the literature to present an analysis of key challenges they have engaged with in sustaining and enhancing course quality. The outcomes of the work undertaken will be presented in the form of a 20-minute oral presentation, complemented by a summary handout (1-2 sides of A4) submitted by each participant/presenter.