Designing and Facilitating Learning Environments

Overview

This unit aims to introduce educators to outcomes-based educational approaches by exploring the development and use of unit learning outcomes; support the design of inclusive and engaging learning activities using a variety of digital media and universal design principles; and promote the evaluation of learning activities to ensure alignment with curriculum components and support ethical, evidence-based curriculum renewal.

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Articulate the key elements of course design to demonstrate understanding of how these components support student learning
2. Review and redesign learning activities that promote student engagement across diverse cohorts
3. Justify diverse pedagogical approaches and delivery modes utilising appropriate strategies and digital technologies
4. Critically examine and reflect on teaching philosophy and evidence-based teaching to inform decision making on practice

Teaching methods

Assessment

Content

The roles of unit learning outcomes

• Critiquing, writing and using unit learning outcomes

Learning activities

• Designing activities aligned with unit learning outcomes 
• Designing teaching activities to enable learning activities
• Transforming content – accessibility and universal design for learning (UDL)
• Media choices and opportunities 
• Using and creating video 
• The opportunities and challenges of hyflex environments
• Planning, designing, and evaluating team work
• Adopting an informed, critical perspective of educational technology
• Critically examining teaching philosophy and evidence-bases to inform decision making

Quality assurance

• Curriculum subject review to enhance learning experience
• Awareness of using learning progressions for planning assurance of learning