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There are 6 modules in this course
Where to start to innovate your teaching? But before that, what does it mean to innovate in the classroom? Designing Learning Innovation aims to put the designing culture at the service of learning innovation, supporting those who do not have a specific pedagogical background and those who wish to learn the basic tools of a good teaching design then to continue exploring the frontiers of innovation.
A set of logical and methodological tools to innovate teaching, finding the most suitable approaches with one’s own vision of the teaching-learning experience.
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (ILOs)
If you actively participate in this course, at the end you will be able to:
Use basic theoretical-methodological tools (such as Constructive Alignment and the Learning Innovation Network) to enhance teaching coherence between learning objectives, assessment methods and learning experiences;
apply pedagogical frameworks of the active learning methodology to the design either an individual teaching module or an entire teaching path;
evaluate advantages and disadvantages, in the field of your own teachings, of traditional evaluation approaches compared to the new assessment strategies, in particular those oriented to the formative evaluation;
apply simple strategies for managing the active class in small, medium and large classrooms;
designing and producing quality teaching materials also enhancing the availability of “Open Educational Resources”.
THE MOOC-BOOK: MATERIALS AND ACTIVITIES
The MOOC is realized in a strongly integrated way with the book “Designing Learning Innovation” published by Pearson (the english version is the translation of the italian one already published and accessible here https://www.bookrepublic.it/ebook/9788891926067-designing-learning-innovation-pearson/)
In the course you will find video lessons and infographic articulated as in the book. You will also encounter different types of activities which will contribute to make your experience richer and more complete.
The topic of this first week “Why should we carry out Learning Innovation” explores the concept of Learning Innovation and the reasons behind it, trying to find an answer to the question: “why should we need to innovate our teaching?”
From speaker to designer: what do you think?•10 minutes
WEEK 1 - Bibliography•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Week 1 - Final Take Away Quiz•30 minutes
Anticipation test•30 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
Key elements in a process of learning innovation•10 minutes
What do you think? •10 minutes
From speaker to designer•10 minutes
The Intended Learning Outcomes
Module 2•3 hours to complete
Module details
In this second week we will look into the topic of Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) and their key role as a guide in the process of designing teaching experiences. We will start from the Constructive Alignment theory to then analyze the Dublin Descriptors and Bloom’s Taxonomies, useful in helping us to create a richer plan for the Intended Learning Outcomes.
In the fifth and sixth week we explore the Learning Innovation Network as a tool for designing teaching and learning experiences, developed by METID - Politecnico di Milano. It places at the center of attention the dynamic of interactions among subjects that generate the experience of teaching and learning. The Learning Innovation Network is for the teacher designer a tool for designing learning innovation: through the deconstruction of the learning experience in its key components (subjects, activities, contents, channels, outside world) it stimulates observation and offers ideas for redesigning. In this fifth week, we will focus, in particular, on the use of Networked Learning to plan learning innovation, starting by identifying and representing the subjects of teaching and learning experience and the definition and description of learning activities for active classes. In the sixth week, the focus will be on the designing of contents, of communication channels and strategies to integrate the “outside world” in order to support teaching and learning activities, and monitoring the innovative experience of teaching-learning.
Infographic - the Learning Innovation Network•10 minutes
Challenge yourself!•10 minutes
Infographic - Map of Actors•10 minutes
Infographics - describing the key actors•10 minutes
Infographic - the active classroom•10 minutes
Infographic - The design of activities•10 minutes
Infographic - Activities for large classrooms•10 minutes
Infographic - Activities for small/medium classrooms•10 minutes
Focus - Active classroom•10 minutes
The INSYSTED Inspirational Guide•10 minutes
WEEK 5 - Bibliography•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Week 5 - Final Take Away Quiz•30 minutes
What do you remember? The Learning Innovation Network•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Challenge yourself!•10 minutes
The Learning Innovation Network: contents and useful connections
Module 6•5 hours to complete
Module details
In the fifth and sixth week we explore the Learning Innovation Network tool for teaching and learning design, developed by METID - Politecnico di Milano, that sets the dynamic of interactions between subjects that generate the experience of teaching and learning and use them at the center of attention.
The Learning Innovation Network is for the teacher designer a tool for the design of learning innovation: through the deconstruction of the learning experience in its key components (subjects, activities, content, channels, outside world) it stimulates observation and offers ideas for redesigning. After identifying and describing the subjects in the teaching and learning experience, in this sixth week we are going to focus on the planning related to content, channels of communication and strategies to integrate the “outside world” as well as monitoring finalized to assess the efficacy of teaching innovation interventions.
What's included
8 videos16 readings2 assignments
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8 videos•Total 51 minutes
Contents: typology and narrative structures•6 minutes
Content: format and sources•5 minutes
Focus: Open Educational Resources (part 3)•8 minutes
Physical channels•3 minutes
Digital channels•5 minutes
The outside world•7 minutes
Monitoring: the quantitative dimension•8 minutes
Monitoring: the qualitative dimension•8 minutes
16 readings•Total 160 minutes
Infographic - typology and narrative structures•10 minutes
Infographic - typology and narrative structures (2)•10 minutes
Infographic - design ideas•10 minutes
Infographic - OERs•10 minutes
Infographic - contents of the Learning Innovation Network•10 minutes
Focus: Open Educational Resources (part 1)•10 minutes
Focus: Open Educational Resources (part 2)•10 minutes
Infographic - phisical channels•10 minutes
Infographic - digital channels•10 minutes
Infographics - the outside world•10 minutes
Focus - MOOC (part 1)•10 minutes
Focus - MOOC (part 2)•10 minutes
Focus - MOOC (part 3)•10 minutes
Infographics - monitoring: the quantitative dimension•10 minutes
Infographics - Monitoring: the qualitative dimension•10 minutes
WEEK 6 - Bibliography•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Week 6 - Final Take Away Quiz •30 minutes
What do you remember? Contents and channels•30 minutes
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