rwl curriculum
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RWL Curriculum. Design principles and practice examples Lyn Alderman. Curriculum informed by practice. Undergraduate course - experiential learning model with ungraded units for whole of course (UTS, 1996) Integrated problem based learning for whole of school ( UoN , 1984-2005) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Design principles and practice examples
Lyn Alderman
RWL Curriculum
Curriculum informed by practiceUndergraduate course - experiential learning
model with ungraded units for whole of course (UTS, 1996)
Integrated problem based learning for whole of school (UoN, 1984-2005)
One year paid work placement opportunities and experiential learning units offered to all students (Swinburne, 2005)
A university for the Real World embedded (QUT, 2009)
Experiential learning model Pre-enrolment criteria –
employment in the field
Students provided industry currency and academics/curriculum provided theory
Research professional practice strand across all years through learning contracts
Recognition of prior learning strongly upheld
Assessment policy – all units were ungraded and examinations were banned
Stable timetable for whole of course, academics moved their delivery
Problem Based Learning model
One unit per semester
Linear delivery
All assessment integrated horizontal and vertical
Each year has a theme and project budget
Each stream has a vertical presence
Experiential PBL international model
PBL
Student
Study Centre
UniversityTheoreticalknowledge
Localcontext
Industryknowledge
Mid semester entry challenge
Diverse educational backgrounds
Are we talking the same language?
Definitions of assessment
Over 200 different titles for examination and some ambiguous titles such as assignment 1, 2, 3 and 4
One institutional set of assessment tasks reportable through the academic database
http://www.otq.qut.edu.au/guidelines/guidelines_assessment_tasks_july_2009.pdf
Mapping assessment - semester
Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Communication 20% 35% 45%
History 35% 65%
Construction 15% 15% 70%
Design 15% 40% 45%
Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject A Subject A
Subject B Subject B
Subject C Subject C
Subject D Subject D
Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject A Subject A
Subject B Subject B
Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject A Subject A
Subject B Subject B
Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject F Subject F
Subject B Subject C
Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject A Subject F
Subject B
Yea
r 4
Cal
enda
r Y
ear
Subject D
Yea
r 1
Yea
r 2
Yea
r 3
Subject D Subject D
Yea
r 5
Semester 1 Semester 2
Subject DSubject D
Subject DSubject D
Subject D
Lyn Alderman
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