Foundations of Learning and Teaching

Overview

This unit aims to set the foundations of learning and teaching in higher education settings. This will involve establishing a peer network in which students will participate in a range of activities to learn about diverse learning theories and pedagogies, and the tertiary environment in which they are working and studying. The scene will be set for continued consideration of how to support the variety of paths students take in their learning journeys.

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Evaluate learning theories and pedagogies, models, and frameworks in professional education contexts
2. Critically reflect on personal, professional, and organisational philosophy and approaches to develop quality tertiary learning and teaching practices
3. Justify own perspective on learning theories and pedagogies to generate knowledge for the self and others learning
4. Plan to be scholarly in your role in Higher Education and to implement reflexive outcomes
5. Create a teaching development plan to guide learning and teaching practices

Teaching methods

Hawthorn Online

Assessment

Content

Professionalisation of tertiary teaching:

• Reflection and reflexive practices

• Establishing a personal professional network – peer partnership

• Professional advancement in your teaching career

• Learning and teaching development plan

Learning theories and pedagogies:

• Western theories of learning

• Non-Western theories of learning

Students’ learning journeys:

• How do students learn?

• Strategies to support learning for a diversity of students

• Critical evaluation of social, sustainable, and ethical influences on local and global learning in tertiary education

The changing tertiary and teaching environment:

• Good teaching practice indicators 

• Curriculum and subject review in relation to learning theory, pedagogies and frameworks

• Managing the tension: Quality assurance and quality teaching