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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Education |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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| Description:
| Aims: This unit will consider more theoretical aspects of learning. It aims to consider a selection of theoretical perspectives on learning, and to relate these to teaching and learning in different contexts, including schools, colleges, universities and lifelong learning. The unit will also explore the implications of new technologies for learning. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit students will be able to: begin to understand the nature of learning and teaching; evaluate critically the merits of behavioural, cognitive and other theories of learning; draw together the various dimensions impinging on learning to better understand their own learning and ways of imparting it to others; establish a critical awareness of new technologies for teaching and have an appreciation of a variety of contexts in which learning occurs and can be facilitated. Skills: Comprehensive and scholarly written communication (e.g. essays) (A) Effective oral communication (e.g. seminar presentations) (T) Ability to select, summarise and synthesis written information from multiple sources (F) Ability to apply theory into practice (T) Ability to produce work to agreed specifications and deadlines (A) Ability to work independently, without close supervision or guidance (F). Content: Theories of learning: a review of a range of approaches to learning theory and the cognitive and other processes associated with learning: including memory, problem-solving and motivation. * Contexts for learning: including schools, further and higher education, and a variety of lifelong learning opportunities. Session would include, for example: * Learners and individual differences * Theories of learning including behavioural, cognitive, social cognitive and constructivist approaches to learning * Memory, thinking, problem-solving and learning * Motivation and learning; comparing theories * ICT and learning. |
| Programme availability: |
ED10002 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take either as a Director of Studies approved option within their programme of study or as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.
ED10002 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Chemistry
ED10002 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Chemistry
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