Course: Course design, fall 2020, Topic: 1. topic: Curriculum design

Course Design - fall 2020
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)
- Announcements Forum
- General discussion Forum
- Course feedback URL
- Course description File Word 2007 document

1. topic: Curriculum design
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
Unips-video: Core Content Analysis
- 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 8.11.2020

2. 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
- Learning materials
- UNIPS-video: Learning Outcomes URL
- UNIPS video: Core Content Analysis URL
- Curriculum Design at Aalto University – Strategy and Policies URL
- Biggs & Tang. 2011. Teaching for Quality Learning at University. (4th edition) URL
  Chapter 6: Constructively aligned teaching and assessment, 95-110
  Chapters 7-8: Designing constructively aligned outcomes-based teaching and learning, 113-159
- Ryan: Writing and Using Learning Outcomes: a Practical Guide. URL
- Quick instructions to Flinga File PDF document
- Here below are the groups' workspaces in Flinga. Each topic has it's own Flinga. Find your own group area (group number) and start working! You can take more space on Flinga whiteboard by dragging your working area outwards.
- Group work in Flinga: Curriculum work URL
- Group work in Flinga: Constructive alignment URL
- Group work in Flinga: Learning Outcomes URL
- Todays slides and links File PDF document

Course Design - fall 2020

1. topic: Curriculum design

1. topic: Curriculum design

Learning materials