EUN255 Designing Innovative Learning Using Digital Technologies
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| Unit code: | EUN255 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,020 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | EUN255 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
In this unit you will design innovative learning and teaching that uses digital technologies. You will consider the place of digital technologies in secondary school settings, and engage with educational theory and research. Building on reflections of professional practice and experience, you will identify opportunities for innovation, and in response, you will develop an innovative digital learning experience.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply professional knowledge to the use of digital technologies in learning and teaching.
- Use relevant theories, frameworks and models to reflect critically on professional practice and to justify pedagogical decisions.
- Building on prior experience, design innovative and future-focussed digital learning experiences.
- Identify pedagogical challenges associated with the use of digital technologies and reframe these in purposeful and authentic ways to develop learning.
Content
In this unit, you will:
- use educational theory and research, as well as relevant curricula and policy, to consider the role of digital technologies in learning and teaching
- reflect on professional practice and experience using digital technologies for learning and teaching, and identify opportunities for improvement
- develop an innovative approach to digital learning experiences for secondary students.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in:
- collaborative activities including group work and discussions
- individual activities including, engaging with online content, readings and asynchronous tasks
- reflective activities focussed on previous professional practice and experience
- activities focussed on ways to activate learning and teaching using digital technologies
- authentic assessment tasks that are focussed on using reflection as the basis for agentic and purposeful innovation.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
In this unit, you will receive feedback as follows:
- formative feedback from peers and tutors during tutorials and associated activities
- constructive feedback from tutors on summative assessment tasks.
Assessment
Overview
You will complete two pieces of assessment:
- Reflection - You will write a reflective analysis on your use of digital technologies in learning and teaching while on professional experience (PEx). Based on this, you will identify opportunities for improvement.
- Professional plan - In response to an opportunity for improvement from the reflection task, you will develop and justify an innovative digital learning experience.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflection on PEx: Learning and teaching with digital technologies
Reflect in depth on at least two different ways digital technologies were used for learning and teaching on PEx. Use relevant theories, frameworks and models to analyse these practices, and identify opportunities for improvement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Develop an innovative digital learning experience
Responding to an opportunity for improvement from task 1, develop a specific learning experience that makes significant, purposeful and innovative use of digital technologies. Use relevant theories, frameworks and models to justify the learning design.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant resource materials will be available electronically through the unit Canvas site. Additional references for assessment can be found in the library. There is no prescribed textbook.