DESIGNING TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING - 2021/2

Module Overview

This module focusses on providing a structured and grounded approach to researching and designing Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) interventions. This will be achieved through an active approach to TEL that follows a design-based methodology - the learning design studio. This will equip participants with the tools and critical knowledge to be able to successfully design, implement and evaluate technology-based solutions to learning and teaching challenges, taking into account local contexts and disciplinary perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to work collaboratively in the design process and build an online portfolio as they progress through the module.

Module provider

Surrey Institute of Education

Module Leader

REES Roger (Sy Inst Educ)

Number of Credits: 15

ECTS Credits: 7.5

Framework: FHEQ Level 7

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Semester 1

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Module content

Indicative content includes:

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          Sensitisation to the key issues in Technology Enhanced Learning.


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          Topics include: situating TEL within the educational context; assessing models of technology change and uptake e.g. diffusion of innovations model (Rogers) and disruptive innovation (Christensen); identifying big design challenges in TEL; classifying types of technology use in learning and teaching.


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          Critques of TEL deployment from a socio-technical perspective, including technology led versus pedagogy driven approaches.


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          Design based approaches and the role of a designer: examining the tools and techniques avaiable to designers.


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          Implementation of a structured rapid design cycle and the realisation of a designed and prototyped TEL solution. 

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

N/A

Assessment Strategy

Module aims

• Sensitise participants to key issues in the domain of technology enhanced learning from differing but linked perspectives.
• Engage participants with a set of design tools and practices to support a design-based approach to develop and test technology enhanced learning/ techno-pedagogical  solutions to real world teaching challenges.

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy is designed to enable participants to explore broad challenges in the domain of TEL and then identify particular learning and teaching challenges, which may be related to their disciplinary domain, that can be addressed through technology supported interventions.

The learning and teaching is driven by a well tested design methodology known as the learning design studio approach. This is a design based methodology that leads participants through several scaffolded stages of problem identification and solving in the domain of Technology Enhanced Learning. These stages cover: Identification (of a challenge); Discovery (research possible solutions); Design; Sharing (and crtitique); Prototyping; Evaluation; Reflection. As the students work through these stages they will build an onlne portfolio of their work.

The learning and teaching methods include:

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          Audio and slidecast recorded micro-lectures (4 x 15 minutes)


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          Synchronous online seminars (5 x 1 hour)


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          Asynchronous discussion fora


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          Synchronous online chat sessions


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          Asynchrounous peer review 

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: GCAM005

Programmes this module appears in

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