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Intended Learning Outcomes E-Learning

By the end of the topic students will be better able to: Aims

1. Discuss the educational rationale for using E-learning has the potential to enrich and enliven
PBL both the student learning and staff teaching
experience. There is, however, a tendency to consider
2. Describe the PBL process and explain the the use of technologies at a relatively late stage
roles and responsibilities of both learners and in the educational design process. This topic will
tutors give participants the opportunity to evaluate how
their current or planned teaching and assessment
3. Consider the use of PBL within their own practices could make effective use of e-learning. This
discipline area will be achieved by creating a learning design that
incorporates the appropriate use of technologies.
4. Discuss some of the challenges in designing Participants will also have the opportunity to consider
and delivering a PBL curriculum some of the theoretical frameworks for e-learning
and review practical examples of how technologies
5. Discuss some of the ways in which the have been used to enhance learning at Imperial and
knowledge, skills and attitudes required of elsewhere.
learners might be developed and assessed
within a PBL curriculum.

Initial Reading:

There will be some pre-seminar reading of 2-3 papers. Teaching Methods
These will be available on Blackboard two weeks
before the seminar. This topic is taught through participation in online
learning and a face-to-face workshop. One week
Outcome Assignment: before the session, students will be required to
contribute to an online discussion in which they
Students will be asked to submit an assignment will outline how they currently use technologies
of 1500-2000 words considering any aspect of PBL and how they might wish to use them in the future.
that is relevant to their practice or a more general Students will then attend a workshop in which they
piece that considers the use of PBL from a broader will evaluate how their teaching can be supported
perspective. through the use of technologies. The workshop will
provide a number of case studies that have used
ECTS credits: 5 technology to facilitate both in-class and online
UK PSF indicative mapping: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, K2, K3, learning. After the workshop, students will return to
K5, K6, V2, V3, V4 the online discussion and review their responses in
Word count: 1500-2000 light of the workshop.
Tutor: Ms Jo Horsburgh 

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