Designing Learning Innovation: an introduction (Coursera)

Offered by Politecnico di Milano,
Designing Learning Innovation: an introduction (Coursera)

Where to start to innovate your teaching? But before that, what does it mean to innovate in the classroom? Designing Learning Innovation aims to put the designing culture at the service of learning innovation, supporting those who do not have a specific pedagogical background and those who wish to learn the basic tools of a good teaching design then to continue exploring the frontiers of innovation.

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A set of logical and methodological tools to innovate teaching, finding the most suitable approaches with one’s own vision of the teaching-learning experience.
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (ILOs)
If you actively participate in this course, at the end you will be able to:

  • Use basic theoretical-methodological tools (such as Constructive Alignment and the Learning Innovation Network) to enhance teaching coherence between learning objectives, assessment methods and learning experiences;
  • apply pedagogical frameworks of the active learning methodology to the design either an individual teaching module or an entire teaching path;
  • evaluate advantages and disadvantages, in the field of your own teachings, of traditional evaluation approaches compared to the new assessment strategies, in particular those oriented to the formative evaluation.

In the course you will find video lessons and infographic articulated as in the book. You will also encounter different types of activities which will contribute to make your experience richer and more complete.

Syllabus

Why Learning Innovation
Module 1
The topic of this first week “Why should we carry out Learning Innovation” explores the concept of Learning Innovation and the reasons behind it, trying to find an answer to the question: “why should we need to innovate our teaching?”

The Intended Learning Outcomes
Module 2
In this second week we will look into the topic of Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) and their key role as a guide in the process of designing teaching experiences. We will start from the Constructive Alignment theory to then analyze the Dublin Descriptors and Bloom’s Taxonomies, useful in helping us to create a richer plan for the Intended Learning Outcomes.

The Assessment
Module 3
The topic of this third week is Assessment of the teaching and learning experience.

The Pedagogical Frameworks
Module 4
In this fourth week we will consider the pedagogical frameworks and their potential use when designing learning innovation.

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