Course Code: EDU523
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Synopsis

This course is designed for pre-employment and continuing education and training educators, focusing on the diverse learners encountered in the modern educational landscape. This course equips educators with up-to-date knowledge, skills, and strategies required to teach and assess a broad spectrum of learners, including learners from pre-employment training (PET) and continuing education and training (CET) in institutes of higher education, industry academies, vocational institutions, and polytechnics. In this course, participants will explore a range of topics, including characteristics of PET and CET learners, contemporary theories and principles, innovative technology-mediated pedagogies, modern assessment strategies, etc. Opportunities will also be provided for participants to apply these pedagogical and assessment theories, frameworks, and principles in designing and implementing learning activities. After the course, participants will be well-prepared to create an inclusive and effective learning environment to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving educational landscape.
Level: 5
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: EVERY REGULAR SEMESTER

Topics

  • Purposes of education for different profiles of learners
  • Learners and learning
  • Learning theories
  • Approaches to teaching different profiles of learners
  • Approaches to different learning modalities
  • Cognitivist and constructivist perspectives on technological tools
  • Learning sciences perspectives on learning
  • Tech-enabled learning activities
  • Foundations of assessment
  • Types of assessment and assessment design
  • Developing rubrics and scoring criteria
  • Facilitating learning with assessment

Learning Outcome

  • Analyse the characteristics of different groups of PET and CET learners and their learning profile
  • Assess the appropriateness of teaching approaches for different purposes and profiles of PET and CET learners
  • Examine the mediating role of technologies for different learning purposes
  • Evaluate different assessment methods and tasks against the foundations of assessment
  • Design technology-mediated activities for different learning purposes and learning modalities
  • Construct assessment rubrics/scoring criteria for different types of assessment
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