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Education (Educational Studies - Higher Education)

Semester 2, 2020 unit of study availability

Some Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences units of study originally intended to run in Semester 2, 2020 are no longer available.

A full and up-to-date list of units of study available in Semester 2, 2020 from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, can be found on this webpage.
 

Higher Education

Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education)

Students complete 24 credit points, including:
(a) 24 credit points of core units of study

Core units

EDPR5001 University Teaching and Learning

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3hr meeting fortnightly, Fridays 1-4pm Assessment: 1x500wd issue posting (10%), 1x1500wd annotated bibliography (25%), 1x4000wd final project proposal (65%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit will offer you opportunities to enhance your understanding of good teaching and quality student learning in higher education. The main aim of this unit is to support you in applying your enhanced understanding of teaching and learning to planning scholarly and creative solutions to practice-based problems in your work as a university teacher. As a result of successfully completing this unit of study students should be able to explain relationships between good teaching and quality student learning using theoretical concepts from the higher education literature; and apply an enhanced understanding of good teaching and quality student learning to practice-based teaching and learning issues.
EDPR5002 Reflection and Practice in University T and L

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3hr meeting (Friday 1-4 pm) Assessment: 1x400wd teaching philosophy statement (10%), 1x1500wd peer observation report (25%), 1x1500wd student interview report (25%), 1x2600wd reflective portfolio (40%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit will offer you the opportunity to develop your understanding of the role and importance of reflection in university teaching and student learning. The main aim of the unit is to develop your ability to reflect on your own teaching practices in a scholarly way. Reflective practice is seen as a key to our continuing development as university teachers. As a result of successfully completing this unit of study students should be able to apply aspects of the scholarly literature on the nature and role of reflection to developing your teaching; and critically reflect on your own teaching practice with a view to improving your teaching and the quality of students' learning.
EDPR5003 University Teaching Portfolios

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3hr meeting (Friday 1-4 pm) Prerequisites: EDPR5001 and EDPR5002 Assessment: 1x2500wd teaching case analysis essay or equivalent (40%), 1x3500wd final teaching portfolio (60%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit is designed to help you consider, articulate, develop and evidence your teaching aims, practices and achievements in a compelling and scholarly way, informed by the institutional context. By drawing on the research about teaching excellence and exploring how others have crafted cases about teaching excellence, you will have opportunities to reflect on how your disciplinary context shapes your aims and approaches to teaching, the evidence about your teaching effectiveness, and the impact of your teaching on student learning. As a result of successfully completing this unit of study students should be able to apply an enhanced understanding for crafting an engaging and rigorous account of your teaching that you can adapt for different purposes, audiences and contexts.
EDPR6012 Developing Integ eLearning Env Higher Ed

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3hr meeting/week (Friday 1-4 pm) for 8 weeks Assessment: 1x1500wd Analysis and design report (25%), 1x2500wd Equivalent Multimedia Submission (40%), 1x2000wd Final design plan report (35%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit will offer you the opportunity to develop your understanding of theoretical and practical issues in designing integrated eLearning environments in higher education. Participants will have the chance to consider their own teaching approaches in relation to students' experience of technology-enabled learning activities. Drawing on recent research into technology-enabled teaching and learning theory and practice, participants will design, develop and evaluate integrated learning activities that are relevant to their own teaching and learning contexts.
Textbooks
Laurillard, D. (2002). Rethinking university teaching: A framework for the effective use of educational technology (2nd ed.). London:Routledge