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Teaching and Learning Tricky Topics online course

1. Assimilative

2. Finding and handling information

3. Productive

• Understand the background to tricky topics and how they relate to the subject area
• Apply the tricky topic process to support identifying student learning barriers and why they occur
• Understand how learning design activities can help to identify the ‘student voice’
• Apply student and activity profiles and discover how they can inform a tricky topics intervention
• Understand why and how to develop a targeted tricky topic intervention, as well as how to assess student learning of a tricky topic.

1. Explain the role of quality assurance and enhancement processes for providing a good quality distance learning experience for students

2. Understand what the principles and practices of openness in education means for you and your institution in developing and sharing educational resources

3. Evaluate the learning needs of students to help inform the design of teaching programmes

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Assessment webinar 1

Assimilative

• Identify the different purposes of assessment
• Describe the link between learning outcomes and assessment
• Outline the role of feedback in assessment

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Assessment webinar 2

Assimilative

• To recognise the need for assessment design
• To identify assessment types
• To identify assessment tasks

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Phase 2 OER Development activity

1. Assimilative

2. Finding and handling information

3. Communication

4. Productive

5. Experiential

• Identify opportunities to work with support staff in the production of online course content
• Understand how to assess the learning needs of the students who will study your chosen online course.
• Create a plan for how you might adapt the course for your students

1. Explain the role of quality assurance and enhancement processes for providing a good quality distance learning experience for students

2. Understand what the principles and practices of openness in education means for you and your institution in developing and sharing educational resources

3. Evaluate the learning needs of students to help inform the design of teaching programmes

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes