Course Design (5 cr) - Online course
Topic outline
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Welcome to Course Design online -course. In this course you'll have an opportunity to design or redesign your course. You will get and give feedback on the course plans and hopefully you'll have new ideas to conduct your teaching. This course is one of core courses and after this you are able to participate in to Teaching Practice (Opetusharjoittelu) and Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Oppiminen ja opetus yliopistossa).
Teacher in charge: Maire Syrjäkari, PhD, specialist, university pedagogy (maire.syrjakari (at) aalto.fi)Please, do give us feedback from this pilot course - so we can develop this further according to your ideas!
Course feedback link is here!
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Participant list and groups FilePDF document
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Now you can start this course!
You will find all the materials or links and instructions for studying the modules in this MyCourses -environment. Each module including pre-assignment has materials and assignments and some modules include also theme discussion.
Watch the videos, read the literature, and do the assignments and participate to your own groups' theme discussion as instructed under each module topic (on the left).
You have also at least one teacher who will be available in our environment. If you have any questions or problems etc. please, contact me by email or Ask, answer and wonder -discussion forum in the main page.
Pre-assignment: Please, do pre-assignment tasks DL 12.4.2019 and then move to the next topic: Learning Outcomes and Core Content 15.4.-26.4.2019 .
Learning Outcomes: After pre-assignment phase you will be able to
- get to know other participants
- you have familiarized yourself to Course Design MyCourses environment, contents and activities
- you have started to write your course plan (version 1.0)
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Learning Outcomes: After this module you will be able to
- recognize the importance of curriculum work in course design
- identify the importance of the constructive alignment
- practice how to set learning outcomes
- select the content based on the idea of core curriculum
During this module, your learning assignments are (5):
1. Watch the videos DL at the latest 26.4.2019
- Unips-video: Learning Outcomes
- Familiarize yourself with given reading material which you can find below.
3. Participate to theme discussion DL 17.4.-26.4.2019 (Find your group's Theme discussion forum under Peer Groups and activities -topic (on the left)
4. Write a course plan version 2.0 DL 26.4.2019 (Find your group's Course Plan -forum under Peer Groups and activities -topic (on the left)
- Write the version 2.0 of your course plan: include learning outcomes and core content analysis to it. Attach your plan to your own peer groups Course plan discussion forum
5. Group's Case-working:writing a case related to teaching and learning (more instruction under peer groups and activities -> Case-working ) DL 18.5.2019 -
Learning Outcomes: After this module you are able to
- recognize different types of assessment methods
- select appropriate assessment method for your course and justify your choices
- discuss how group size effects on selection of teaching methods
- choose and apply teaching methods supporting your learning outcomes
During this module, your learning assignments are (4):
1. Watch the videos DL at the latest 10.5.2019
- Unips-video: Assessment
- Unips-video: Teaching Methods
2. Reading task
- Familiarize yourself with given reading material which you can find below.
3. Course plan version 3.0 DL 10.5.2019 (Find your group's Course Plan -forum under Peer Groups and activities -topic on the left)
- More information in your group's own area (Peer groups and activities, on the left)
- Familiarize yourself with learning materials related to this topic (below).
- Create SWOT-analysis about five teaching methods, here is a template for it. Choose the methods to be analyzed as follows:
- The main method in your course at the moment
- A common method in your own subject field
- Three methods that you consider possible for your own course that you possibly want to try out in your course in future.
- When you choose the teaching methods and justify your decisions, use
the knowledge that you gained doing the SWOT analyses about the teaching
methods.
- Create version 3.0 of your course plan, for more instructions, see Course plan: template and versions and drop box for versions 4.0 and Final.
- Please, remember that you have to give feedback from your peers' course plans version 3.0 at the latest 17.5.2019. More information under topic Educational Technology and your own group's Course Plan -forum.
4. Group's Case-working DL 18.5.2019
- Continue to write your group's case. More information about Case-working in Group's own area (Peer Groups and activities, on the left)
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Learning Outcomes: After this module you are able to- recognize different tools of educational technology
- select appropriate educational technology tools /methods for your course
- justify your choices and explain the added value of educational technology in your course
During this module, your learning assignments are (4):
1. Get to know different digital tools for teaching at the latest 17.5.2019- In this section you can find introductory material for the following tools: Panopto, MyCourses, Presemo & Turnitin.
- Read and watch videos about these tools. Test them, if you are able to. When you have familiarized yourself with a tool, you can mark it completed by clicking the gray cube on it.
- If you have questions or you'd like to receive guidance, please notice the link Information systems for teaching and their email addresses below the topic Useful links. Messages to those addresses are read and answered by specialists in Aalto's ICT for Learning team.
2. Theme discussion DL 13.5.-17.5.2019 (Find your group's Theme discussion forum under Peer Groups and activities -topic on the left)
3. Course plan: Peer feedback from course plan version 3.0 DL 13.-17.5.2019 and continue course plan version 4.0 DL 31.5.2019
A. Peer feedback DL 13.-17.5.2019:
* This is the version (3.0) your peers (2 persons) are going to give peer feedback about (in your own groups' Course Plan -forum).
* You will be informed about feedback chains in your Forum on previous week.
* When you give feedback on course plans, you may use the following questions to guide your work:
** Read the ILOs (intended learning outcomes) – are they written from the students’ perspective, do they state at which level ( e.g. Bloom taxonomy) student should be after the course?
** Pay attention to constructive alignment: can you see the connection between ILOs, assessment and teaching methods, content, used materials?
** You can also comment on other parts of the course planB. Continue your Course Plan version 4.0 DL 31.5.2019* How do you use digital tools/platforms in your course?* What kind of added value it provides?* Give also justifications for using chosen tools.4. Group's Case-working DL for case-writing 18.5.2019 and DL for case-solution 2.6.2019
* Continue to write your group's case. More information about Case-working in Group's own area (Peer Groups and activities, on the left)
- After 18.5.2019 your group gets a case assignment and you are to record a short video about solving it DL 2.6.2019. There are many ways to record a video and to share it, but Panopto is introduced here in a way that can be helpful in this. You are of course also free to use other means of recording and sharing a video, if they are already familiar to you (e.g. sharing in YouTube, Vimeo, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox).
- If you'd like to receive guidance or if you have questions about Panopto, please contact Jukka Välimäki (jukka.valimaki@aalto.fi)
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Learning Outcomes: After this module you are able to
- calculate workload for your course for both teacher and student
During this module, your learning assignments are (4):
1. Watch the video DL at the latest 31.5.2019
- Unips-video: Workload
2. Reading task DL 31.5.2019
- Familiarize yourself with given reading material which you can find below.
3. Course plan version 4.0 DL 31.5.2019 (submit your course plan v. 4.0 to Drop box for version 4.0. (Under the Topic left: Course plan: template and versions and drop box for versions 4.0 and Final)
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the version 4.0 of your course plan and include students' workload as well as teacher's workload to it. Submit your plan v. 4.0 to Drop box for course plan v. 4.0 (Course plan: template and versions and drop box for versions 4.0 and final on the left).
- This is the version your teacher is going to give feedback about DL7.6.2019.
4. Case-working: Continue to create solution (20.5.-3.6.2019) for given case wrote by other group and add your solution video to case-discussion forum DL 3.6.2019 (peer groups and activities -> case working)
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Learning Outcomes: After this module you are able to
- select methods for collecting feedback
- discuss and evaluate how teaching methods and feedback are used in your discipline.
During this module, your learning assignments are:
1. Reading task DL at the latest 14.6.2019
- Focus on student Feedback and course development process
2. Course plan Final version DL 14.6.2019
- Write the final version of your course plan and include topics:
- How you plan to collect student feedback (during and after a course)
- How you plan to utilize it in course development.
- Submit your course plan to Drop box for final course plan (Course plan: template, versions and drop box for versions 4.0 and final).
3. Peer Groups' Case-solutions DL 3.6.2019 and comments and discussion DL 3.-10.6.2019
- Familiarize yourself with other groups' Case solutions and at least comment the solution made for your group's written case DL 10.6.2019.
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In this section you find the members of groups, your own peer group's acitivities (Group Spring, Group Winter, Group Summer and Group Autumn). In addition, you can introduce yourself and familiarize yourself with whole participant group.
Group Autumn
Ragnar Freij-Hollanti
Hadi Bordbar
Andres Lucero
Siavash KhajaviGroup Summer
Sanna Tiilikainen
Jingrui Li
Eva Purkathofer
Kamyar HasanzadehGroup Winter
Muhammad Tabassum
Ayman Abed
Jaakko Timonen
Athanasios MarkouGroup Spring
Rainhard Findling
Anna Kajosaari
Christian Flindt
Ioannis TsiptsisPlease introduce yourself in this discussion forum (below).
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