Postgraduate Course: Course design for digital environments (EDUA11323)
Course Outline
School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | Designing an online course requires teachers and developers to find a pathway through a complex terrain in which media, curriculum, ideology, context and resources must all be balanced and negotiated. This course will give a practical and theoretical grounding in ways of approaching this task.
We will begin by exploring a range of approaches to course design, looking at online examples and at some of the critical debates surrounding each approach. We will then move on to a small group activity in which each member will have the opportunity to design and run a small-scale learning event, ending with a discussion of assessment issues and a practical task in the design of assessment criteria. Students will also have the option to study approaches to course evaluation, and issues of usability in interface design for learning. For the main course assessment students will have the opportunity to design and part-build their own course.
Students from outwith the Digital Education programme wishing to enrol for this course or take it on a 'class only' basis must liaise directly with the course secretary before enrolling. |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | Students MUST have passed: An introduction to digital environments for learning (EDUA11222). Approval by Course Coordinator necessary for enrolment. Please contact the Course Coordinator if you are considering this course. |
High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand and apply a range of approaches to the design of online and offline courses
- Critically evaluate these approaches via an understanding of their philosophical and theoretical bases
- Select and design media, learning activities and assessment tasks appropriate to each approach
- Design and build course components appropriate to your own institutional and educational context
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Special Arrangements |
Students 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 recommended. |
Keywords | Online learning,course design,e-learning,digital learning,digital education |
Contacts
Course organiser | Mr Peter Evans
Tel: (0131 6)51 6345
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Course secretary | Miss Amanda Gilmour
Tel: (0131 6)51 1196
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