Course design, fall 2020
Översikt
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Welcome to Course Design -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: Tiina Pylkkönen, specialist, university pedagogy (tiina.pylkkonen (at) aalto.fi)Co-teacher: Miia Forsten, specialist, university pedagogy (miia.forsten(at) aalto.fi)
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Before we start the course, please finish the three pre-assignments below.
Pre-assignment: Please, do pre-assignment tasks DL 22. and 25.10.2020.
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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
- understand the meaning of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for your course
Group assignment:
1. Before your first group meeting:
- Watch the videos
- Unips-video: Learning Outcomes
- Familiarize yourself with given reading material which you can find below.
In the meeting together with your group use the Flingas (below) to list new ideas and questions. Other groups are working on the same flingas. Respect their opinions, but you can of course comment them. DL 8.11.20202. Start thinking of Group's Case-working: writing a case related to teaching and learning (more instruction under peer groups and activities -> Case-working ) DL 25.11.2020
Individual assignment
Write a course plan version 2.0 DL 6.11.2020 (Find your group's Course Plan -forum under Peer Groups and activities -topic (on the left)
- include learning outcomes and core content analysis to it.
- Attach your plan to your own peer groups Course plan discussion forum
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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
Group assignments:
Before your group meeting:
- Watch the videos
- Unips-video: Assessment
- Unips-video: Teaching Methods
- Reading task
- Familiarize yourself with given reading material which you can find below
In the meeting together with your group use the padlet to reflect te teaching and assessment methods you listed in Presemo. Also have a look at video how teaching influences study wellbeing. <you can also comment on that. Other groups are working on the same tool. Respect others opinions, but you can of course comment them. DL 29.11.2020Start writing your group's case. More information about Case-working in Group's own area (Peer Groups and activities, on the left)Individual assignment:Course plan version 3.0 DL 23.11.2020 (Find your group's Course Plan -forum under Peer Groups and activities -topic on the left).
Peer feedback
- 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 plan
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Learning Outcomes: After this module you are able to
- calculate workload for your course for both teacher and student
- analyze connections between ILO's, methods, assessment and workload (constructive alignment
- 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
Educational technology in teaching presurvey:
Before the third session, please answer to a short survey concerning your prior knowledge in hybrid learning by Tuesday November 10 at the latest. We will use the survey answers for customizing the course session to your needs. You can answer either in English or Finnish. Link to the survey: https://bit.ly/3kW2Y6Q.Individual assignment:Continue writing course plan version 4.0 DL 2.12.2020 Write the version 4.0 of your course plan and include use of educational technology, students' workload as well as teacher's workload to it. You will get facilitator feedback from this version of course plan.Course plan: Peer feedback from course plan version 3.0 DL 24.-27.11.2020Watch the video
- Unips-video: Workload
Familiarize yourself with given reading material which you can find belowParticipate in the discussion about educational technology in teaching in the forum below.2. Case-working DL for case-writing
- 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 23.11.2020 your group gets a case assignment and you are to record a short video about solving it DL 5.12.2020. There are many ways to record a video and to share it, but Panopto will be introduced here in a way that can be helpful in this. Other solution is to have a ZOOM-meeting and record that. 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).
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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
- list things that belogn to high quality teaching
- evaluate your own teaching competency
Individual assignment:
Before your group meeting
1. Read the article
- Focus on student Feedback and course development process
2. See the video
Course plan Final version DL 14.12.2020
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).
Peer Groups' Case-solutions DL 5.12.2020 and comments and discussion DL 6.-14.12.2020
- Familiarize yourself with other groups' Case solutions and at least comment the solution made for your group's written case DL 14.12.2020
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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 Spring
Kalle Kytölä
Junhe Lian
Mehmet Ilter
Myrto Chliova
Tommi Kakko Group Summer
Jara Uitto Osiris Valdez Banda
Mahdi Pourakbari Kasmaei
Marium Durrani You Liu Group Autumn
Jose Lado Senni Kirjavainen Kari Jalonen Zachary Taylor Nuria Sosolna Caba Group Winter
Elisa Mekler Barbara Keller Mikko Suominen Simo Puintila Vikash Sinha
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