As part of the Continuing Professional Development Framework, the Academic Development Services team offer self-paced learning modules in Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching and Moodle training tutorials.
Each module is self-paced and should take approximately two hours to complete. You will be able to download the resources and sequentially work through the activities in your own time.
Participants will be able to generate a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the module. To obtain a Certificate of Participation, all activities within the enrolled module will need to be completed, and in some modules, you will need to successfully complete a module quiz.
See more information below.
Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching modules
These self-paced modules provide key introductory learning and teaching concepts and strategies. The modules have been developed by a team of learning and teaching leaders from 18 Australian universities and one university in the United Kingdom. Associate Professor Kym Fraser, Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow, led the development, in collaboration with nine Australian Partner Universities.
The following modules are available via Moodle:
Designing, implementing and supporting online learning
Self-enrolment key: student_onlinelearning
This module introduces issues of design, implementation and facilitation when using educational technologies for teaching, learning and assessment.
Feedback for learning
Self-enrolment key: student_feedbackforlearning
This module aims to introduce you to what constitutes feedback and feedforward, help you to reflect on how you design feedback processes to enhance student learning and consider how to engage students effectively with feedback.
Assessment
Self-enrolment key: student_assessment
This module will introduce you to some important elements of assessment, and the management of assessment risk through the application of practices to ensure assessment quality, including moderation.
Learning and teaching theories
Self-enrolment key: student_learningandteachingtheories
The aim of this module is to encourage you to think critically about your own conceptions of learning and teaching, reflect on learning theory in relation to the demands of the contemporary higher education environment, and consider how teaching practices are informed and shaped by theory.
Teaching today's diverse learners
Self-enrolment key: student_diverselearners
The module will develop your understanding of diversity in higher education. It will introduce you to a range of evidence-based, good-practice activities and resources to support your students. You will also be asked to consider ways you can apply your thinking to support your students.
Moodle Training Modules
These self-paced tutorials cover a large variety of Moodle topics and are designed to provide help with using Moodle and a range of tools.
The following module is available via Moodle:
Quizzes for learning, feedback and assessment
Self-enrolment key: StudentSPWS6
The module will take you through the basics of viewing, using, creating and managing the Moodle Quizzes. Moodle's Quiz activity allows you to design and build quizzes containing a variety of question types (e.g. multiple choice, true/false, short answer).
Communication & Community Building
Self-enrolment key: StudentSPWS2
This module showcases a variety of Moodle communication tools, including Blackboard Collaborate, with examples and links to UNSW Teaching Gateway resources for you to start facilitating both synchronous and asynchronous communication in your course.
Polling, Feedback and Surveys
Self-enrolment key: StudentSPWS3
In this module we explore why feedback from students matter, and some of the ways we capture feedback including myExperience. This module has been designed to provide an overview and demonstration of polling, feedback and survey tools in Moodle, and provide links to further resources to help you with these tools.
Contact
If you have questions regarding to any of the self-paced learning modules, please contact the Academic Development Services (ADS) team at ads@unsw.edu.au