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EDS 813: Contemporary Issues in Learning Teaching and Assessment
Convenor: Maria Zenios
Team Taught
The module explores some contemporary and significant thinking about the nature of learning, teaching and assessment in H.E, F.E., in formal settings such as school classrooms and in informal settings such as the home and workplace. Drawing from the socio-cultural and perspective, it is designed to combine engagement with pedagogic theories and new research on learning, teaching and assessment enabled by the use of new communication technologies.
Teaching and learning are organised around a mix of tutor presentations, seminar and group-problem working, discussion and associated activities and individual and shared readings. We will draw on set readings which explore the implications of theories of learning, teaching and assessment enhanced through networked technologies including practical examples and experiences. Two of the seminars will be offered online through the use of the LUVLE website.
Brief syllabus
- Understanding learning, teaching and assessment in H.E.; theories of learning and teaching; social contexts of learning
- Learning through computers and networks; networked learning, CSCL
- Designing networked learning courses and events; assessing learning in collaborate learning contexts
- Using ICT in school classrooms; social interactions, motivational perspectives and learner engagement
- Informal learning and everyday practices
- Open distance learning
Assessment
Assessment is by means of two pieces of coursework, the first a short critical review of a target paper (1500 words), the second a longer essay on a given topic (3500 words).
Preparatory reading
Bereiter, C. (2005). Education and mind in the knowledge age, New Jersey, Laurence Earlbaum.
Goodyear, P., Banks, S., Hodgson, V., & McConnell, D., (2004). Advances
in
Research on Networked Learning. Boston, Kluwer Academic Pubs.
Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
McConnell, D. (2006) E-Learning Groups and Communities. Maidenhead,
SRHE/OU
Press (ISBN 0 335 21280 8)
Salmon, G. (2000) E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online. London, Kogan Page
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