Admission requirements
Third year enrolled students from LU, TU Delft and EUR.
Proficiency in English reading, speaking and writing.
Full-time commitment
Description
In this first part of the joint LDE Minor Living Education Lab, the basics, the domains of Instructional Design, Technology-enhanced Learning/Teaching and Design Thinking with interdisciplinary group work are introduced.
Instructional design
Traditional design models often break up a complex whole into smaller isolated parts and teach the parts separately (atomistic design approach). This often results in separation of knowledge, skills and attitudes, fragmentation, and low transfer of learning. In this basic part of the minor, you learn to design education in a holistic way. Holistic design approaches attempt to deal with complex learning without losing sight of the whole. You learn to design education in which complex knowledge, skills and attitudes are learnt in an integrated way, i.e. in the authentic context of whole, real life, tasks, with adaptive support to deal adequately with individual differences.
Technology Enhanced Learning
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) offers different affordances for supporting primary and secondary learning support. On the one hand, technology has classically been used to optimize information distribution and assessment processes. On the other hand technologies can also enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and enjoyability of learning. You learn how to design TEL solutions and interventions targeting primary and seconday learning outcomes. Furthermore, different educational technology approachessuch as mobile learning, learning analytics, augmented and virtual reality, AI for education, and empirical data about their effects will be introduced.
Design Thinking
The minor is based on the principles of design thinking. Design thinking is a non-linear, iterative, participatory design process that is used to understand users (in this specific context students and academics), challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions by prototyping and testing. Involving five phases—Discover, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test—it is most useful to tackle complex design problems that are ill-defined or unknown. Each design thinking phase will last for two weeks. In this part of the minor, students working with multidisciplinary groups will understand the principles of Design thinking by exploring and dissecting relevant use cases.
Course objectives
After completing this course, students
are able to compare and contrast the atomistic and holistic instructional design approaches and their implemenation in education
are able to specify whole task instructional design and pedagogies for a given educational challenge
know about different educational technologies, their affordances and how they are used for enhancing learning
know and understand the phases of design thinking and associated activities and outcomes
Timetable
Mondays: work with small group on project (remote or in person)
Tuesdays (Leiden): lectures/workgroup covering the educational/pedagogical perspective in the morning and work in small group in the afternoon, if necessary supported by teachers/experts/supervisors
Wednesdays (Delft): lectures/workgroup covering the educational technology perspective in the morning and work in small group in the afternoon, if necessary supported by teachers/experts/supervisors
Thursdays (Rotterdam): lectures/workgroup covering the design thinking perspective in the morning and work in small group in the afternoon, if necessary supported by teachers/experts/supervisors
Fridays: work with small group on project (remote or in person)
Mode of instruction
Lectures will be combined with group work and consulting sessions with experts from educational science, didactics, technology-enhanced learning, and agile management and design thinking.
Assessment method, weighing, resit
Programmatic Assessment
Based on Van Der Vleuten et al (2015) students will be assessed by programmatic assessment. This means that students would engage in many low-stakes formative assessment moments (e.g assignments between lectures, reflection blogs, coaching dialogues) building up to a summative decision at the end of the course (individual report and group presentation).
For the weekly lectures students will get several cases presented on which they have to select a case and write a reflection blog., These weekly reflections will form a final individual reflection report on the learning journey which will be graded. The group presentation will also be graded (same grade for whole group).
The groups give a final presentation about their analysis, process, developed solutions and evaluation studies performed. The assessment by both teachers and (external) experts from the field will be based on the criteria:
Relevance: The extent to which the team shows a good understanding of the challenge taken into consideration, its context and identified the target audience related to their challenge
Quality: The extent to which the solution developed addresses the challenge effectively by considering the context where it will be implemented, and the target group needs. This includes quality or analysis, selected methodology of development, developed interventions as also quality of evaluation.
Creativity: The extent to which the solution is an original and novel idea, having some elements of innovativeness compared to what is already available in the education sector and the market.
Performance and teamwork, interdisciplinarity of solution
Transparency and robustness (systematic) of the processes undertaken (documentation of steps, meeting minutes, brainstorming outputs, process diagrams etc.), including collaborative process (Roles and responsibilities)
Weighing
Students receive one (individual) end grade for the course (15 EC) which consists of an individual grade for the reflective report (30% of the end grade) and a group grade for the end presentation (70% of the end grade).
Resit
The resit date for the end presentation will be 23rd of November 2023. The deadline for the resit of the reflective report will be 8th of December 2023.
Reading list
TBA
Registration
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Contact
For questions regarding the minor you can contact Inge Bork.
Remarks
The minor will be cancelled if less than 15 students apply.