Rational Behind the Course Design
This course was designed around a number of key principles that include:
- learners are not required to attend a lesson at a fixed place or time unless stated otherwise for a particular activity
- learners can expect to undertake individual, group, and collaborative activities
- learners will take on different roles, participate in a wide range of different learning activities that are supported by different types of resources
- all of the materials are released as Open Educational Resources so anyone is free to re-use and re-purpose them in line with the licence attached
- learners will have the opportunity to discuss ideas with a wide cross section of staff working in the Institute for Educational Cybernetics
- learners will be encouraged to engage with experts in the field and with the wider community
- learners will develop their own inquiry on a topic of interest to them and with relevance to their anticipated professional career
- assessment will be ongoing throughout the course
- learners helped to develop their ability as self-directed, critically reflective learners
- the pedagogical design and facilitation of the course is explicit and uses a range of different approaches
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