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1. Think about University Teachers to be 'Craftspeople’!

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This website aims to support university teacher designers in (re)designing their course in a blended learning course.

The teacher designer aims to develop an effective and efficient learning process(es) and a supportive environment that are valued, liked, and feasible for students and teachers.

The teacher designer gathers and analyses additional relevant pedagogical and disciplinary information to address the identified problems and needs of students and teachers, allowing for the ideation, formulation, and selection of appropriate pedagogical and disciplinary options for the course.

This information is structured with the help of various design tools:

The Pedagogical Concept outlines the educational vision that guides the design of your course.

The Learning Environment is a systematic description of the foundation of your course.

Your Quality Criteria and Requirements keep you on track with your course design.

Route Map shows the essence of the designed learning processes.

Your pedagogical approach is described in detail in the Blueprint.

Active learning
Students working in small groups in a workshop setting. Example of active learning
The university Teacher designers at designing

The University Teacher Designers master the indispensable yet old-fashioned skills for instructional design as described by Dick and Carey (1993), Valcke (2007), Earl (1987) and Nedermeijer(2022 – Chapter 6).

Below, I specify the additional skills of the teacher designer.

  1. Think up the learning process for students.
  2. Formulate learning objectives, adapt through progressive insight.
  3. Collect and structure the discipline’s subject matter to study in the course.
  4. Study the users’ perspective of the involved students and teachers, which might influence the course design.
  5. Gain insights into the pedagogical possibilities of learning methods and materials and understand how to create these materials.
  6. Understand and apply evidence-based (or informed) pedagogical options in new teaching-learning situations.
  7. Identify and describe the different elements of the learning environment and assess their coherence, also known as constructive alignment.
  8. Follow the stages of the course design and development process.

The website also introduces a new course design process for university teacher designers

The relevant and valuable design features in technical design, complex problem-solving, creativity, design thinking and course design are analysed to improve the existing course DD processes.
You can find the results of this analysis in Part 4 of my book:
Jan Nedermeijer (2023) Evidence-based blended and online learning. Course Design for University Teachers.

These features make the Basic Course Design and Development process more effective and practicable for university teachers.

Basic course design process

6-Phases of the Basic Course Design and Development Process for University Teacher Designers

This process should be adapted to the specific context of different design situations. For example, there are three different course DD processes. You can find a more detailed description of the 8-stage Course Design and Development Process here.

Meet the Theory

The university teacher designers should be able to give enough time for the design of their courses

The teacher is a craft person in course design.

Blended learning

Modern Higher Education (MHE)

Teacher pedagogy

Design Principles and the IT Options in Higher Education (HE)

Design is building , thinking and designing

Course Design in Modern Higher Education: A New Approach

You can follow the Moodle Course: How do you redesign your course to a Blended Learning course?

Moodle

The 8-stage course design and development process

Illustration of the idea of a Pedagogical concept

Illustration of the pedagogical concept of modern higher

Learning environment

Elements of the Learning Environment

Learning process

Route Map clarifies the design of the learning process(es)

In the assignment try to make a blue print of your course.

The blueprint describes the selected design details of the actual course program

Qualities of your design

Quality Criteria and Requirements

5 referents model

Prepare a Diamond Diagram

Design principles for the IT options in blended learning

Route Map clarifies the design of the learning process(es)

Creativity

The blueprint describes the selected design details of the actual course program

Eight Design Principles for Modern Higher Education (MHE)

Prepare a Diamond Diagram

Quality Criteria and Requirements

Meet the practice

Moodle

Serious game MHE: Design principles for MHE

IT options overview

E-course IT options Blended Learning

Blended learning website: shop for ideas

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