Exploring Teaching and Assessments for Higher Education (FutureLearn)

By understanding how to create meaningful interactions with your students, you can strengthen their learning and assessment experiences using both digital and conventional approaches.
Explore how to improve your teaching through learning theories

Week one explores various teaching contexts.

From Behaviourism to Cognitivism, there are many different learning theories in the field of education, all aimed at improving how students learn.

This course aims to help you develop your understanding of learning theories, giving you the opportunity to reflect on and share your views and preconceptions about learning.

You’ll also explore different modes of teaching delivery in the modern world and how teaching in online, face-to-face, and blended spaces can influence student learning.
Learn to use different types of assessment for various contexts

You’ll start week two by looking at assessment and how you can support students to understand the purpose and requirements of their assignments.

Then, you’ll discuss the different types of assessment, including formative and summative approaches, and how these can contribute to students’ learning.
Build your tools and techniques to provide effective feedback

The aim of feedback in education is to help students improve their learning, so it’s important to ensure that it works for your students.

The last part of this course will take you through contemporary approaches to feedback and what engaging and effective feedback looks like.

What topics will you cover?

- Views of learning

- Teaching contexts

- Authentic practice examples

- Effective assessment

- Assessment literacy

- Engaging feedback

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Explore the context in which you teach and implications for your practice

Evaluate your assessment and feedback practice

Critically reflect on the value of your current approaches for student learning

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for academic educators working in a higher education institution. It may also be useful to anyone interested in teaching within higher education.