UTQ Design

Please note: bring your own lunch. Coffee, tea, and soup are provided. 

The UTQ Design course focuses on the UTQ design competencies. This course follows a flipped classroom approach, in which the participants are asked to study several online self-study modules as preparation for in-class application/reflection activities. Key design principles for this course are constructive alignment and backward design. You will use these frameworks for evaluating your course design. You will identify key strengths and elements for improvement of your course.

During the course days, we will use cooperative and activating pedagogies that can be inspirational for your teaching practice. We will use peer feedback as an essential part of the learning process. Attendance and active participation of all participants is therefore expected.

You will learn which design principles you can use to make your course (more) active, effective and efficient. You will practise your design competencies with the use of one of your courses.

Unfortunately, there is not enough time to fully (re)design a course. The UTQ Design course will result in an evaluation plan to further strengthen your course design

Target group

This course is for teaching staff at Wageningen University who wish to develop their design competency. The course is a mandatory module in the UTQ programme, but you can also join when you are not in the UTQ or when you are already UTQ certified. You will be added to the UTQ trajectory Brightspace to hand in the admission assignment. 

Because the course is mandatory for the UTQ trajectory, priority will be given to UTQ participants. 

Pre-requisites for this course

1. You are a lecturer/staff member with teaching experience at WUR or elsewhere.
2. You are actively involved in and responsible for (a part of) the course
3. You have completed the admission assignment (see UTQ trajectory Brightspace)

Please discuss your UTQ planning with your UTQ coach and do not enrol in more than two UTQ courses in the same period (consider your sanity).

UTQ competences

4TU UTQ Competence 1: Designing or redesigning teaching.

The teacher can:
a. Explain how the course is embedded in the curriculum or degree program.
b. Design teaching based on the principles of ‘constructive alignment’.
c. Design active, effective, and efficient learning methods and learning materials.
d. Design teaching with respect to the specific (curricular) characteristics and needs of the students.
e. Design your teaching in a practically and logistically feasible (doable) way.

Learning outcomes

After the successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Analyse relevant aspects of the situational conditions affecting the course (re)design
• Evaluate chosen design principles to explain your course (re)design.
• Reflection on the feasibility (of the improvements) of your design

Additional goals

• Experience different TLAs.
• Develop your design competence
• Experience peer feedback as a tool for learning
• Reflect on the quality of the design of the course you teach.

Course activities

Total time investment: ~30 hours

Contact hours: 2 days from 9.30 to 16.00 hrs.

Please note: bring your own lunch
 

The course is set up as a blended learning course: you will study course materials prior to the two training days and make use of our online learning support (Brightspace). During the course days you will experience a variety of teaching and learning activities, e.g., storyboarding, retrieval practice, elaboration, reflection poster, peer feedback, and pitching.

The admission assignment will take a maximum of 8 h to complete. You can find more info via UTQ Trajectory. This includes the 1h self-study on ’01. Diversity, equity and inclusion in your teaching practice’. When you have already studied this module, you will be asked to refresh your understanding.

Before training day 1, you are asked to prepare yourself using several assignments. This will take a maximum of 6 h to complete. This includes, among other things, studying the self-study modules ’02. information processing’, ’04. motivating your students’ and ’07. formative practice’. When you have already studied these modules, you will be asked to refresh your understanding. 

Before training day 2, you are asked to reflect on day 1 and prepare for training day 2. This will take a maximum of 6 h to complete. This includes, among other things, studying the self-study modules ‘03. Learning strategies’. You are also asked to refresh your understanding of the other self-study modules.

Literature

All literature is provided via the UTQ Design Brightspace environment and the UTQ self-study modules Brightspace.

Assessment 

After successful complementation of the course (active participation and admission assignment), you will receive the partial UTQ certificate for competence #1 Design.

Costs

Participation is free for Wageningen University & Research staff involved in teaching in a Wageningen University degree programme.

Cancellation

We consider registration as final. When cancelled within three weeks before course day 1, your chair group will be charged all costs of your subscription (€350). If there are fewer than 8 participants in the course, the Teaching and Learning Centre may cancel the course and notify you at the latest 2 weeks before the start of the course.