Continuous professional development short course for educators of health sciences students

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Faculty of Health Sciences
Education Development Unit
Professional Development Short Course 2014
Teaching, Learning and Assessment

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The Education Development Unit (EDU) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at
UCT is pleased to announce a short course on teaching, learning and
assessment .
The short course is ideally suited for busy teaching and clinical staff who cannot
leave their teaching and service commitments for long period but want to stay
informed of trends in teaching, learning and assessment. That is why the mode
of delivery is mostly online through UCT’s Vula system with one contact
session. The course aims to prepare UCT educators of health sciences
students to facilitate learning, through developing their knowledge base of
educational principles as well as supporting the integration of the concepts
learned in their professional role and context.
The course consists of two modules; module 1 focusses on evidence based
teaching and module 2 centres on assessment of student learning. The first 2
sessions of module 1 is compulsory there after you may choose to sign up for
the sessions that are most applicable to you.
Participants will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course. To
receive the certificate of completion participants need to demonstrate activity
online within the week they have registered through accessing the weekly
activities; the readings, power points, responding to questions online,
communicating with peers, creating blogs when required and participation in the
online discussion when scheduled.
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Module 1
03 March—16 May 2014
Week
Evidence based teaching
Teaching role 5 March [contact
session]
Active Learning 10 - 14 March
Teaching methods:
Participants choose one of the following:
Classroom or
Workplace based learning
17 - 21 March
Group teaching
Participants choose one of the following:
Small/large group or
Interdisciplinary teaching
24 - 28 March
Giving feedback 31 March - 4 April
E-learning the basics 7 - 11 April
How to improve own teaching practice 14 – 18 April
Participants present an aspect of their teaching 21 - 25 April
Module 2
28 July—5 September 2014
Week
Assessment of student learning
Purpose of assessment 28 July – 1 August
Formative assessment 04 - 08 August
Methods of assessment
Participants choose one of the
following:
Classroom or
Workplace based
11-15 August
Developing a marking rubric for your
course
18 - 22 August
Evaluation of a self selected
assessment method
25-29 August
Course Outline
For more information contact us
• email the course administrator
Liza.smith@uct.ac.za or convener
Lunelle.pienaar@uct.ac.za,
• tel: 021-650 6827