Assessing and Teaching for Learning Module Overview
Each module is primarily self-directed online and via professional practice, however each module has a mandatory minimum of four core face to face sessions.
These sessions will provide a pivotal role in supporting the learners; to engage with the UCDOER as a supportive framework for academic development and by association the Professional Certificate/Diploma in University Teaching & Learning, to determine, design and implement a personal negotiated assessment, and to review and evaluate the resulting portfolio of work.
Each themed section or available module content within UCDOER offers a series of exercises and activities embedded amidst core theory and practice. It is the intention that these provide the impetus for academic engagement and development. The nature of these activities predicates that the individual will apply these in a cyclical or re-iterative manner within their practice, developing over time a reflective, evaluative and transformative approach to teaching and learning. In this manner a portfolio of work is created that may form, in part, the basis upon which their negotiated assessment is formulated.
Contact Details
The Programme Director is Dr Terry Barret [[1]] and the Module Co-ordinator is David Jennings [[2]]
Assessing and Teaching for Learning Assessment Requirements:
To acquire credits (as part of the Professional Certificate/Diploma in University Teaching & Learning) one must follow these guidelines for assessment.
This module is assessed by a negotiated project which will normally include
(a) a critical review of some of the teaching and assessment methods suggested in the literature and
(b) a critical evaluation-in-use of the use of “new” (to the individual teachers concerned) active-learning and assessment methods.
What you should do if you are undertaking this module is:
1. First familiarise yourself with the materials this section of the Open Educational Resource provides.
2. Work through the designated exercises treating these as ways to (a) learn about the topic (b) generate material you may use to formulate the required assignment.
3. Some of the exercises may ask you to do work for a face-to-face group meeting. There are only a few scheduled meetings and it would greatly benefit you and your colleagues in the current cohort if you attended all of these. Please refer to the timetable of group meetings (provided latterly to registered participants), so that you know when these meeting take place. (Remember, this is a blended learning module, not an exclusively online module.)
4. Inevitably you will be required to return to the materials and additional readings to further your engagement, learning and development and to inform your chosen assignment.
Assessing and Teaching for Learning
