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Evaluating Practice

Identify appropriate evaluation sources and techniques to inform enhancements to your teaching practice.

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  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    8 hours
Overview
Requirements

Identify evaluation techniques to inform enhancements to your teaching

Taking a scholarly approach to your practice demands a critical and evidence-based analysis of your teaching. This short course will encourage you to explore a number of evaluation techniques, in addition to identifying the diverse stakeholders that can be powerful agents in the evaluation of practice in higher education. You will also reflect on how to utilise insights from evaluation data to formulate meaningful actions for your practice.

What topics will you cover?

  • The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Identifying evaluation data
  • Evaluation to action
  • Developing networks

Learning on this course

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 sources of the evaluation of practice in higher education
  • Examine the appropriateness of evaluation techniques to inform enhancements to practice
  • Identify meaningful actions from your evaluation of teaching
  • Develop awareness of your significant communities and networks

Who is the course for?

HE practitioners with diverse backgrounds, roles, responsibilities, experience and subject expertise who will be encouraged to discover and make connections between theories, their own practice and their students’ learning.

Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992

  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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