Designing and Delivering Modules
Spring sale: now just £10Do you favour a modular approach or are you scathing about the way modularity undermines scholarship and real learning? Designing and Delivering Modules is about the process of structuring learning into chunks we call modules and providing mechanisms for supporting students as they try to absorb those chunks. It is written for academic staff who want to design and deliver modules that work effectively.
David Turner writes from the standpoint that although modularity is a 'good thing', and many of the criticisms one hears levelled at it are blinkered or biased, it does not come without problems. This book will help you to identify the real problems of modularity and gain ideas for tackling them.
Designing and Delivering Modules offers invaluable help, workable ideas and effective solutions for the new lecturer, or the lecturer new to a modular system. The book:
- covers the main teaching, learning and assessment problems that modules present and the main opportunities they offer;
- raises module design issues such as using learning outcomes, benchmark statements and module description formats; and
- provides practical examples of a range of strategies for tackling common problems and avoiding common traps.
David Turner has many years' experience as a teacher, course planner, manager of modular courses, and as a member of external assessment and validation panels. His book draws on his own experience and also brings together practical ideas that Graham Gibbs was working on when he left Oxford Brookes University for the Open University.
