Cutting Edge Trends
Outcomes:
- Meet recent ideas from scientific and educational research, for example cognitive load and mental modelling, and how they apply to learning
- Use examples of recent technological advances, for example AI testing, to discuss how ed-tech developments can be incorporated into your teaching
- Critically reflect on your own teaching style and understand alternative teaching styles
- Think about how to exploit design curriculums and resources to reflect cutting edge trends
Content:
Choosing from the modular content on the course the group will explore:
- Contemporary teaching theories, for example different forms of collaborative learning or learning unplugged
- How technology can help and hinder in the classroom and curriculum
- Blended learning and flipped classroom possibilities
- How technology can help track students’ progress and with different forms of assessment
