Dr Simon Paul Atkinson (PFHEA)
Enhancing Institutional Outcomes
Have you got some time for professional development over the holiday period? Or do you have colleagues or design teams working on course designs over the holiday period? Anyone who has ever tried to assess or teach to poorly learning outcomes, and then tried to defend their practices or results, will tell you that getting …
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Courses available here Workshop available aligned to UKPSF A1, A4, A5, K2, K3, K6, V1-V4 This post is a shortened version of a new resource posted about designing effective ILOs available here. ILOs are the detailed explanations, written in language the students will understand before beginning the module or programme, as to what they will …
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[See Courses on Educational Taxonomies] We hear much about the changing world of work and how slow higher and professional education is to respond. So in an increasingly competitive global market of Higher Apprenticeships and work-based learning provision I began to take a particular interest in students’ ‘graduateness’. What had begun as an exploratory look …
Note: Updated high-quality versions of educational taxonomies are available here Whilst the majority of writings and reflections on the use of taxonomies of educational objectives remain focused on the cognitive domain, typified by Bloom (1984), there is growing attention to the affective domain, particularly in professional education. Bloom’s now famous research project, which resulted …
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NOTE: updated high-quality visualisations of these taxonomies are available here. I think being able to visualise things is important. Faculty and learning designers need to be able to see Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) take shape, and many find existing lists uninspiring. It’s not uncommon for faculty and instructional designers to grow weary of ILOs; they …
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