Learning Designs and Materials

Modern theories of teaching and learning focus on facilitating the students' learning, by engaging them in valid learning experiences.

These guides look at several approaches to designing such learning experiences.

Creating and using effective learning outomes - Guide to writing effective program and course learning outcomes at CQUni.
Reusable Learning Design - This learner-focussed model for designing the learning activities, resources and support for a course, was developed as an AUTC grant project.
Curriculum Design -The curriculum design process is about developing a plan for the objectives and strategies for a particular program or course.
Assessment - Assessment is a central part of the learning process. This guide looks at norm vs criteria based assessment, and at formative and summative assessment, as well as tools and strategies for designing assessment tasks.
Assessment Guide - A guide to Assessment for all CQUniversity Staff (2009)
e-Learning (Online Learning) - Using the internet for teaching and learning requires an understanding of the medium and the constraints and opportunities available in it.
Authentic Learning - Authentic learning is an approach that encourages students to learn by interacting with the real world by contributing to their discipline or their community through authentic tasks.
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education - Resource Materials
Teletutorial Guide
Peer Review for Lecture Proforma
Sessional/casual staff resource booklet

Developing Learning Materials

Developing effective learning materials for flexible teaching involves not only an understanding of teaching and learning principles, but also an understanding of the medium in which you are delivering the materials. These guides talk about skills and principles pertinent to particular teaching environments.

Writing for the Web
Readers interact with electronic text in a different way than paper based text. This guide looks at the principals of writing effectively for the web.

Multimedia Design
Staff in the Educational Development Team of OLT are available to assist CQUniversity staff in designing and developing teaching materials in a variety of media, including online and CD products.

The Teaching as Community Property - From Idea to Prototype document, is a chapter on the the ways in which peer review can be used as an evaluation tool for learning and teaching

Other resources

Using ISL (Videoconferencing)
For new users of the ISL system, this series of online presentations provides an overview of the system and its main components.

Rubric for Online Instruction - Developed by the University of California this rubric offers a framework to self-assess and measure the quality and effectiveness of online learning environments. It is customisable to any course and provides a basis for improvement.

Introduction to Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Seminars (videostreams) - Presented by Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health

The Introduction to PBL seminars are aimed at engineering staff, but may be of interest to other staff. They look at what PBL is and how it is used in the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health at CQUniversity. Please select any of the links below to view the videostreams.

8 August 2008
Introduction Part 1 - What is PBL? - Characteristics and history. Curriculum design or Learning Strategy.
2 September 2008
Introduction Part 2 - What is PBL? cont'd - The PBL cycle and objectives. What is different about PBL? The learning that we are aiming for.
16 September 2008
Introduction Part 3 - Why use PBL? Is it PBL? And the difference between PBL and PBL.