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Until recently, research into learning and teaching in universities focused on what the teacher does rather than on what the learner does. However, recent research into student learning indicates that what your students do in order to learn is of the greatest importance. Following on from this research, educators have developed "learner-centred" or "Student-Centred" pedagogy that has significantly influenced our understanding of university learning and teaching.
The following activities can be used to facilitate student-centred teaching:
Blackboard is a Learning Management System (LMS) that supports learning by extending the face-to-face learning environment to online learning spaces and providing virtual classrooms for distance learning courses.
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Assessing Large Classes
The student cohort is becoming ever more diverse and more active, and student class sizes are increasing. For some Faculties, classes of 1000-2000 are becoming more common; for others a class of 80 would seem to be a large class. When student-centred learning is the University’s expectation, doubling or tripling class numbers can present real challenges in the design, management and fairness of assessment practices.
Assessing Classroom Participation
Teachers often include the assessment of classroom participation—or classroom contribution, as it is sometimes called—in an assessment strategy to encourage students to participate in class discussion, and to motivate students to do the background reading and preparation for a class session. When you assess participation in classroom discussion. you also encourage and reward development of oral skills, and group skills such as interacting and cooperating with peers and a tutor. Classroom participation can encompass active learning in a lab, studio, tutorial, team or group, online (e.g. in eportfolios and Learning Management Systems) or in role-plays and simulations.
How do I evaluate a blended or online course?
If UNSW's Course and Teaching Evaluation Improvement system (CATEI) does not gather sufficiently detailed feedback from students about the online activities, you may wish to:
The process of designing blended and online courses is covered in this section of the site. General information on Setting Up and Revising Curriculum is available in the Curriculum Design area of this site.
Planning blended and online courses
See Planning Blended and Online Courses for the following information on the planning process: