Postgraduate Course: Learning and Teaching Online (EDUA11181)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will consider how networked, digital technologies and spaces can best be engaged with in the context of learning and teaching in higher education, and how such engagement might affect both pedagogy and scholarship.
The course will give participants the opportunity to gain a practical and critical grounding in the use of digital technologies for learning. It will enable them to engage hands-on with a range of digital learning environments, offer practical guidance to the effective use of new technologies for learning, and also explore some of the cultural and contextual issues which define ?e-learning= as a vibrant field of study.
On completion of the course, participants will have gained an introductory overview of how online learning has become a key issue in higher education, what digital environments can offer in terms of the delivery of courses and support of learning, and how the project of teaching and learning is affected by our engagement with these technologies. Participants will gain first-hand experience of working individually and collaboratively in a formal online-learning programme, will learn how to build their own online course, and will have the chance to engage with and debate some of the key ideas about e-learning emerging from current research.
There will be two 2-hour lab sessions, with the rest of the course being delivered via online, distance learning.
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| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
| Course Start Date |
18/09/2017 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 5,
Online Activities 9,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 4,
Formative Assessment Hours 4,
Other Study Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
75 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Participants will create a plan for the introduction of a new online / blended element to an existing course with which they are involved, or to a course which is currently being designed or re-designed. The plan need not include the creation of any new course content materials, or require the design of any computer-based tools, but rather should be based on the use of existing online tools (either currently provided by the University, or freely available from an external Web-based service provider). The plan should focus on the design of a learning activity to be carried out by the student group based around the tool or tools chosen. The submission should be between 2000 and 2,500 words.
A pass in this assignment is contingent on participants demonstrating a critical understanding of selected key concepts relating to learning and teaching online within research-intensive settings, offering a clear and critical rationale for how their online strategies can be used to promote student learning. It is expected that participants take account of student diversity as appropriate. The assignment should demonstrate the ability to critically reflect on their planned practice and to demonstrate knowledge of the ways in which academic work in digital contexts affects and alters the ways in which we support learning and teaching practice.
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| Feedback |
Independent reading, from both traditional journals and various online sources, will be recommended for the students. They will then use the virtual learning environment (Learn) discussion forums, and also other social media such as Twitter, to exchange ideas, and to ¿discuss¿ those ideas with peers and tutors. In the context of this course, the central theme will be the selection of appropriate technologies to support pedagogic practices, and in this the discussion of barriers, drivers and the identification of unanticipated consequences, will form key themes of such formative feedback. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- critically evaluate a range of technologies in terms of their impact on teaching and learning
- begin to design their own online learning resources
- contextualise their own practice in terms of the key issues emerging from current research in e-learning
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Reading List
Brabazon, T. (2007) The University of Google: education in the (post)information age. (Aldershot, Ashgate)
Dreyfus, H. L. (2008). On the internet. (London, Routledge)
Ellis, R. A. and P. Goodyear (2010). Students' experiences of e-learning in higher education : the ecology of sustainable innovation. (New York, Routledge)
Facer, K. (2011) Learning futures : education, technology, and social change. (London ; New York, Routledge) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
1) develop and advance their knowledge of, and practical facility with, a number of technologically enhanced pedagogic approaches;
2) come to be able critically to evaluate the affordances of technologies in support of educational objectives;
3) formulate a personal development plan which will allow them to remain current in the rapidly developing field of technology enhanced learning.
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| Special Arrangements |
Participants will be required to have regular access to a networked computer, and will be responsible for providing their own computing equipment and consumables. Broadband is highly recommended. All core and some additional readings will be provided online through e-reserve. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
2 X 2 hours face to face teaching with the remainder of the time delivered online. |
| Keywords | online learning, online teaching |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Hamish Macleod
Tel: (0131 6)51 6665
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Emily Salvesen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6661
Email: |
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