Courses and resources

This interactive session aims to help you make sure that your new or revised programme and module specifications are creatively and appropriately designed, so that they can both be formally accredited successfully and inspire your students to engage actively with your subject discipline at all levels of your curriculum.

The session is for academics and others who need to know about designing and/or revising programme and module descriptors, and getting them accredited.

Aims and Outcomes:

By the end of the session you should be able to.

1 Identify the requirements for accreditation with regard to good practice in the design of programme and module specifications.

2 Evaluate, and apply as appropriate, key pedagogic dimensions of programme design, particularly with respect to the relationship between intended learning outcomes, teaching methods and assessment and feedback, and in relation to curriculum level descriptors.

3 Understand the accreditation process: what needs to be done, by when, and by whom.

4 Draft and/or finalise, with confidence, your own programme and module specifications.

Additional Information:

Please note: the last half hour of the session will take the form of a hands-on workshop for enhancing or finalising your own programme specifications.

Please bring any `in-progress? draft specifications with you to the session to make use of this facility.

Session Content:.

- An `at a glance' overview of the pedagogy of programme and module design and its implications for module descriptors and programme specifications.

- What happens in the accreditation process: common problems encountered at the accreditation stage and easy ways to avoid them by incorporating good practice into a programme.

- Hands-on workshop: a chance to ask questions and get some one-to-one advice from all present on your programme design and paperwork.

If you would like additional information, please contact Dr Dilly Fung on D.Fung@exeter.ac.uk, or Kate Hellman on K.Hellman@exeter.ac.uk.

Training Provider:

Education Enhancement (C.L.Shimmin@ex.ac.uk)