Constructive alignment in curriculum design

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Contributors

• Name and what department each person was in.
• Student or staff partner?
• How was each person involved?
• What rough dates did they contribute?

• Kirsten Dalrymple, Department of Surgery and Cancer. Staff partner from October 2021

Aims & Learning Outcomes

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• Which module and year is it intended for and which setting (lecture or self study)?
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This visualisation will be used to support our students' understanding of the concept of constructive alignment and its use in designing curricula.  The visualisation will be embedded in an asynchronous session (minilecture, reading, tasks) within a module on Designing and Evaluating Curricula. Learning from this session will feed into coursework and the summative assignment where students are creating a lesson plan for their own surgical teaching.  Contextualising this visualisation for surgical and/or medical education will be useful.

After using this visualisation, students will be able to:

• Formulate and choose learning outcomes suitable for planning or developing curricula
• Demonstrate and discuss the importance of constructive alignment in the development of curricula
• Critically discuss and plan a teaching session utilising good practice in learning outcome design and constructive alignment

Design Overview

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Design Justification

Assessment Criteria

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Education Design

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• Design progression, key choices with justifications.
• How has feedback been incorporated.

Graphical Design

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• How was space used effectively?
• Design progression, key choices with justifications.
• How has feedback been incorporated.

• How is the design intuitive?

Interaction Design

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• How has feedback been incorporated.

Progress and Future Work

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• Which pages have been uploaded to website?
• Any ideas for future improvements.

Links

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