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Let’s Start Your Learning Journey

Discover the underpinning principles of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education to get the most out of your learning journey.

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  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    8 hours
Overview
Requirements

Discover the fundamentals that underpin this course to enrich your journey

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is rooted in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It aims to support critical reflection of your current practice and advance your pedagogic approach for the benefit of student learning. This short course introduces core tenets of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education to maximise your learning experience. You’ll identify what reflective practice means to you and begin aligning this to the globally recognised Professional Standards Framework. You’ll position yourself as a learner and an active member of a diverse community of teachers to explore assessment requirements and exchange innovative practices.

What topics will you cover?

  • The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • The Professional Standards Framework
  • Reflective practice
  • You as a learner
  • Assessment requirements

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 the benefits of reflective practice and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to scaffold your learning and elevate pedagogic practice
  • Discover the Professional Standards Framework for benchmarking success in higher education
  • Engage with a diverse teaching community to share and develop practice
  • Investigate the essential requirements of the course to enhance your experience

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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