Module EFPM288 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EFPM288: Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to enable you to improve your professional practice and think creatively about a range of aspects of learning and teaching in Higher Education, as these relate to your specialist role and subject area. It encourages you to make connections between your own experience, the experience of others, and some of the learning and teaching theories that have been developed by researchers and practitioners. Through the exploration of relevant scholarship and educational research, you will also locate and evaluate your practice within current institutional, national and international contexts.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Evaluate critically your education practice and identify possible solutions to enhance it in the following areas of activity covered in the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning in Higher Education: designing and planning learning activities and/or programmes of study; teaching and/or supporting learning; assessing and providing feedback to learners; developing effective learning environments and approaches to student support and guidance; engaging in continuing professional development in subjects/disciplines and their pedagogy, incorporating research, scholarship, and the evaluation of professional practice. 2. Employ self, peer, and student evaluation to analyse your practice, your professional values, and your future development needs in the context of a research-inspired environment, and consider your future professional development needs. 3. Demonstrate a systematic,comprehensive and/or conceptual understanding, interpretation and application of key theoretical and research-based debates about learning, teaching, student support, assessment and evaluation in higher education to your professional practice. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Engage critically and analytically with education-related literature and the pedagogical literature relating to different disciplines, citing and using references appropriately. 5. Show critical awareness of the diversity of educational cultures that can be found within UK higher education, and demonstrate an understanding of how these are shaped by external forces and can, in turn, impact on the wider world outside HE institutions. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. Construct organised, structured, critically reflective, and analytic writing, expressing ideas and opinions with confidence and clarity. 7. Prepare, select, and organise material to produce a coherent portfolio reflecting important issues, interests, and learning needs. 8. Use personal reflection to analyse your professional values and your actions. 9. Design and plan a written assignment that communicates clearly and persuasively. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
While the precise contents of the course might vary from year to year,
Stage 1 will cover:
- An introduction to the principles of learning
- How to plan sessions (including how to write intended learning outcomes and ensure constructive alignment),
- Selection of teaching methods appropriate for groups of different sizes
- How to promote student engagement
- The importance of reflective practice, and how to engage in continuing professional development as an educator
Stage 2 expands on each of the major themes introduced in Stage 1, exploring each in more depth. This portion of the module will cover:
- Planning student-centred sessions that facilitate active learning
- Current education debates and how to find, evaluate, and utilize education innovations
- Principles, design, and practice of assessment, marking, and feedback
- Borrowing and adapting learning and teaching activities from other contexts and disciplines and adapting them to be relevant to your own education setting. How to use experiential learning and different forms of feedback to engage in reflective practice, and how to utilize the outcomes of that reflection to improve education experiences
- Understanding your practice in relation to the UKPSF and other relevant benchmarks used in HE
Online preparatory and consolidation tasks may be required before and/or after each session. A thematic approach will be adopted to incorporate the wider context in which higher education operates. These themes, which are threaded through the online and in-session activities and tasks, include cultural inclusivity, widening participation, accessibility, research-inspired education, technology-enhanced learning, and employability.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 270 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activities | 22 | Interactive lectures (Stage 1 and 2) and group tutorial |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activities | 8 | Online tutor-facilitated preparation and consolidation work with group discussion boards |
| Guided Independent Study | 50 | Preparing for teaching practice, reflection, and development of written reports |
| Guided Independent Study | 20 | Peer observation and feedback activities |
| Guided Independent Study | 60 | Reading and research |
| Guided Independent Study | 30 | Web-based research and preparation tasks activity |
| Guided Independent Study | 30 | Designing, implementing and evaluating feedback through dialogue with peers and students |
| Guided independent Study | 80 | Work-based activities: teaching, supporting students, planning, and/or assessment activities |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Please see the most recent LTHE ELE page
Other Learning Resources
LTHE tutors are available to provide guidance on all aspects of the programme. The LTHE team can provide access to a range of learning tools for you to use during microteaching or elsewhere in your practice. These include remote controls for in-class voting, digital audio and video recorders, online surveys, pointers/clickers, downloadable activities, and a variety of stationery (e.g., flipchart paper, flashcards, pedagogical literature, session plan templates). LTHE students are encouraged to make use of the specialist education library on the St Luke’s Campus.
