The designing culture fertilizing Learning Innovation. 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.
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.
The course is organized in 6 Weeks providing an exploration path of different topics related to the design of learning innovation.
Week 1 – Why Learning Innovation
Week 2 – The Intended Learning Outcomes
Week 3 – The Assessment
Week 4 – The Pedagogical Framework
Week 5 – The Learning Innovation Network: active classroom
Week 6 – The Learning Innovation Network: contents and useful connections
The Weeks have several lessons within them, consisting of videos, texts, infographics and individual self-reflection exercises. At the end of each Week there are assessed quizzes, necessary to obtain the final certificate.
Specifically, in Week 1 we will reflect on the concept of learning innovation, trying to find an answer to the question “why might we need to innovate our teaching?”.
In Week 2 we will explore the topic of Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) and their key role as a guide through learning innovation design processes. We will start with the Constructive Alignment concept and the analysis of the Dublin Descriptors and Bloom’s Taxonomies as useful cues for a richer design of the Intended Learning Outcomes.
In Week 3 we will analyze the role of Assessment in the learning process, trying to apply its key principles in the teaching design processes.
In Week 4 we will discuss together the Pedagogical Frameworks and their possible use in the design of learning innovation.
In Weeks 5 and 6 we will explore the Learning Innovation Network, a didactic design tool developed by METID – Politecnico di Milano, which focuses on the dynamics of interaction between the subjects that generate the teaching and learning experience and who benefit from it. We will see how this tool proves to be a useful support for the teacher-designer for the design of learning innovation.
In particular, in Week 5 we will focus on the use of the Learning Innovation Network starting from the identification and representation of the subjects of the teaching and learning experience and the definition and description of the teaching activities for the active classroom.
In Week 6, the focus will be on the design of content, on the communication channels and on the integration of strategies of the "outside world" to support teaching and learning activities, as well as the monitoring of innovative teaching and learning experiences.
