Module Title
Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Practice
Keywords
continuing professional development, dissemination, evaluation, reflection, peer review, scholarly inquiry, |
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Prerequisites for Module
Applicants are expected to be practitioners in teaching and supporting learning currently working to deliver teaching, learning and assessment.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To promote engagement in scholarly inquiry into own teaching, learning and assessment practices.
To analyse teaching practice in context of own discipline and learning environments.
To develop the design, implement and deliver small scale research outcomes.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Justify the use of appropriate methods of scholarly inquiry to examine critical incidents from teaching practice; analyse and resolve problems arising concerning teaching and learning pedagogy.
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Critically analyse own teaching and supporting learning practice in own professional context to identify a research question.
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Design, implement and deliver a small-scale pedagogic research project carried out over an extended period of self-directed study.
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Indicative Module Content
Critiquing teaching and supporting learning practice through scholarly inquiry.
Framing inquiry into specialised areas of practice such as:
- curriculum planning and design
- assessment design and implementation
- diversity
- technology enhanced learning
- learning environments
- learning development
- quality enhancement
- practice-based education theories and
- concepts in real life teaching spaces.
Inquiry with theories of learning and teaching and contemporary debates in learning and teaching.
Scholarship and research outcomes.
| Writing research projects: line of inquiry, managing project delivery.
Small project research methods
Indicative Student Workload
Contact Hours
| Part Time | Seminars and tutorials
| 10 |
Directed Study
| | Research development
| 20 |
Private Study
| | Inquiry design, development and implementation
| 120 |
Mode of Delivery
This module will be delivered via a range of face to face and online methods.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Component 1 | 1,2,3
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Coursework comprising
research project.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | BELL, J. (2005). Doing your research project: A guide for first-time researchers. 4th Edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
| | 2. | BREW, A. (2006) Research and Teaching : beyond the divide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
| | 3. | DENSCOMBE, M. (2007) The Good Research Guide for Small Scale Research Projects. Open University Press
| | 4. | DEBOWSKI, S., 2011. The New Academic: A Strategic Handbook. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
| | 5. | KANES, C., 2011. Elaborating Professionalism: Studies in Practice and Theory (Innovation and Change in Professional Education). London: Springer.
| | 6. | MCNIFF, J. (2013) Action research: principles and practice. Abingdon: Routledge.
| | 7. | TIDWELL, D.L., HESTON, M.L., et al. (eds) (2009) Research Methods for the Self-Study of Practice, New York: Springer.
| | 8. | Journals:
Innovations in Education and Teaching International
Studies in Higher Education
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Additional Notes
Applicants are likely to be:
staff seeking an academic qualification;
experienced staff developing scholarship and research in learning and teaching.
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