Educational Design
What is Educational Design?
Educational Design is a collaborative approach that seeks to enrich the learning experiences of all students, facilitate curriculum development at the subject and course level, and to extend and develop academics' existing teaching approaches.
Educational Designers play a variety of school and faculty based roles including:
- support and assistance within the collaborative processes of course and subject development teams: working with Course Directors, Course teams, Subject Coordinators to design and develop programs for blended and flexible learning.
- a professional development role in relation to pedagogical approaches in the use of CSU Interact and other educational technologies
- support for major learning resource developments.
More broadly, Educational Designers support the Quality Enhancement and Evaluation Services section of DLTS in facilitating academic staff development as university teachers, with planned and just-in-time activities.
Educational Designers are also involved in learning and teaching innovation projects under the auspices of the Strategic Learning & Teaching Innovation section of DSL.
Contact an Education Designer in your Faculty:
The Common Teaching Standards and Educational Design
There are many approaches to good university teaching. The practice and policy at CSU is to avoid being over prescriptive in teaching and learning policies and to create a framework in which academic staff are supported to exercise their own professional judgment, in consultation with colleagues, in determining how best to teach their students.
There are, however, minimum standards which should inform university learning and teaching. The central areas of assessment practice, timely feedback and subject and course design are core to university learning and teaching.
The 5 Common Teaching Standards are centered around:
- responsiveness to students
- currency of subject content and design
- meeting timelines for learning resource development and for assessment and grading
- assessment alignment with subject objectives and course patterns
- subject and course alignment
A number of approaches can assist you with extending and developing your teaching practice to consider these important areas. DSL is developing a series of HOW TO handouts which will highlight a number of practical approaches to enhance your students' learning. Each handout will focus on a teaching approach aligned with the Common Teaching Standards and will clearly state how these strategies can be applied to teaching practice.
How to…
Would you like assessment tasks to promote student engagement and learning? Do you want students to understand that plagiarism is not acceptable? Do you want students to be engaged in developing their own work?
This brochure is designed to assist you in providing your students with proactive assessment design and practice.
Minimise Plagiarism in Student Work in 5 steps (pdf)
Copyright
Do you understand copyright? Do you know how to apply the principles of copyright law in the teaching environment? Did you realise that different rules apply to different resources? Do you know where to get answers or help?
This 'How To' has been designed to help you understand how to use resources in the online teaching environment. The guide provides information about print, electronic, and audiovisual resources.
Copyright brochure (pdf)