EDF5768 · Educational design

Overview

Educational designers draw on a rich repertoire of theories, models, strategies, and digital tools to create transformative learning experiences that meet adult learner needs across diverse settings including the workplace, community education and universities. In this unit, you will explore the evolving role of the educational designer and the processes that guide design across its lifecycle, from early ideation to iterative evaluation. You will engage with key theories and models, learning how to apply these to the development of purposeful, inclusive, and aligned learning experiences. In doing so you will explore principles of curriculum design, construction of effective learning objectives, foundations of assessment and feedback, and the design implications of technologies and modes of engagement. The unit also introduces the emerging impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on educational design. You will also encounter critical debates and myths about learning, technology, and educational change, building your capacity to think deeply and independently about what constitutes “good” design. Through collaborative inquiry, critique of practice, and hands-on tasks, this unit lays the foundational knowledge and mindset for working as an educational designer in a rapidly changing digital world.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. synthesise and critically debate theories, models and strategies applicable to the field of educational design
2. demonstrate effective learning design that applies foundational principles such as alignment, inclusion, assessment, and contextual appropriateness
3. communicate educational design ideas and rationales effectively.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester comprising: (a.) Contact hours for flexible students: • 12 contact hours and 12 hours equivalent of online activities over the semester; or • 24 hours equivalent of online activities over the semester* (b.) Additional requirements (all students): • independent study to meet the minimum required hours per semester. *International students studying in Australia are not permitted to undertake this contact hour delivery mode. For the unit teaching schedule, please visit the timetable.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.