Course: Adult Education Essentials: Student-Centred Course Design

Authentic learning experiences are relevant to a learner’s life, challenging teachers to ensure both content and delivery methods are meaningful. Watch this short video on ways you can make your …

It’s important that we are thinking about constructive alignment during our planning stages. How do we ensure that the learning outcomes, learning activities, and assessments of learning all align with …

Questions Whether developed by the teacher or the learners, a question forms the basis of any inquiry.  Within traditional learning settings, questions are generally structured and targeted to test comprehension …

Inquiry-based Learning (IBL) is a teaching method that engages students in a knowledge-building process through the generation of open-ended, answerable questions, ideas, and analyses.  This approach is related to problem-based …

Characteristics of good learning outcomes Good learning outcomes focus on knowledge and skills that will be delivered via a particular unit of instruction (e.g. activity, course program, etc.). They emerge …

Before looking at “what” to design, it is helpful to have a rationale (reason for doing something) and model of practice to ensure the alignment of design and delivery. Although …

Problem-based Learning PBL is a student-centered learning approach that uses a problem to focus the learners and the learning process. PBL is not a narrow question/answer approach, the problem is …

Congratulations on your completion of Course 1 – Adult Education Essentials: Student-centred course design! That’s a great achievement. We hope that you have enjoyed your journey so far. Your next …

Constructive alignment Constructive alignment was first discussed by Professor John Biggs as a strategy guiding the design of programmes of learning. It focuses on the teaching and learning activities, intended …