Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EFPM902: Creating Effective Learning in Higher Education

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Aims

In this module, we aim to enable you to find creative and research-informed ways of enhancing your academic and professional practice with respect to supporting student learning. We aim to help you to develop ways of engaging in peer dialogue, so that you can participate in and develop supportive communities of practice amongst colleagues from across the University, including those in the module group, with a focus on sharing and improving teaching practices and enhancing the student experience. Through critical exploration of relevant education theory, recent developments in HE and University policy, and with respect to peer and student feedback, you will also locate and evaluate your practice within current institutional, political and social contexts and identify a specific aspect of your teaching practice to develop further.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here - you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills1. Demonstrate critical engagement with all dimensions of the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning in Higher Education and its implications for practice;
2. Engage in structured dialogue with academic/professional peers on aspects of teaching, curriculum development, curriculum delivery and/or assessment, with an advanced level of constructive, critical analysis;
3. Explore critically, your own practice as a teacher and/or facilitator of learning in higher education;
4. Devise a strategy for changing and enhancing an aspect of your teaching practice, with reference to the UK Professional Standards Framework, educational research literature, and peer and student feedback;
5. Implement change to develop at least one aspect of your practice and reflect critically on that development;
6. Critically evaluate key theoretical and research-based debates about learning, teaching, student support, assessment and evaluation in higher education and apply them to your professional practice;
Discipline-Specific Skills7. Demonstrate critical awareness of higher education policy and its implications for academic/professional practice;
8. Demonstrate critical and analytical engagement with education-related literature;
9. Show critical awareness of similarities and differences in the cultures of different subject disciplines;
10. Evaluate alternative forms of theoretical and research-based knowledge;
Personal and Key Skills11. Engage in independent study informed by the presentation and analysis of materials and issues in group discussion;
12. Reflect analytically on personal and professional values and their implications for practice;
13. Communicate effectively in dialogue with peers, giving constructive, well organised feedback; and
14. Develop a portfolio which communicates clearly and persuasively.