EDUC40270 Digital Learning Design:Teaching, Learning & Technology

Academic Year 2020/2021

The 'Professional Development: Digital Learning Design' module is intended primarily for teachers and other educators new to the field of Education ICT, eLearning and /or with an interest in using new digital media to better effect in their work. The module develops further in a systematic way concepts and practices relating to building personal capability in this rapidly emerging and challenging area of education and practice introduced in Module EDUC40260 - Teachers and new TLTs. It provides advanced education in the skills and understanding needed to design, develop and use digital materials in an educational setting, and to design and resource digitally-rich courses of training and education.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

The Professional Development: Digital Learning Design module has been designed so that participants will be able to:·- meet the challenges of developing and using effectively a broad range of digital instructional and learning materials;- plan, resource, deliver and evaluate at an advanced level for distance and e-learning across a range of digital media;- identify opportunities and plan effectively for small-scale research projects which relate specifically to digital learning design and new ICT usages.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

10
Practical

20
Specified Learning Activities

70
Autonomous Student Learning

100
Total

200
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The module is built around active participation. As designed, it offers opportunities for: active/task-based learning; peer and group work; lectures; critical and reflective writing; lab/artefact work; case-based learning; and student [project presentation. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Portfolio: Coursework based; compiled week on week across the module run. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded Yes

85
Presentation: Project Presentation based on a learning design project undertaken by the student. Varies over the Trimester n/a Graded No

15

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback to the activities of this module will be mainly formative; that is, it is designed help you to build towards a final grade by including elements from both lecturer and peer review of work in progress.