Courses / Module

• Analyse the legal and policy context for EDI with specific reference to their legal obligation to promote equality and inclusion in their teaching and assessment practices.
• Recognise the diversity that exists within their own teaching cohorts and the potential barriers to learning that might exist.
• Demonstrate a self-aware, reflexive, informed and critical approach to understanding and meeting the needs of diverse students.
• Redesign elements of their teaching and assessment practice based on their engagement with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.
• Commit to continuing to embed UDL principles in their classroom-based and online-based teaching practice."

• This blended learning module combines directed and self-directed learning to explore the context, concepts and approaches to equality and inclusion in higher education settings. Learning happens through completion of self-paced guided learning activities, sharing and critiquing challenges and solutions with an assigned critical friend, and in-class and online discussion and activities with the wider group. Application of learning happens through the assessment for learning approach which requires participants to review their own practice across a range of criteria in order to initiate immediate changes in practice and plan for future professional development in relation to this aspect of their teaching practice

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Ungraded
• Continuous Assessment detail(s): Assessment for this module requires participants to review a chosen module through the lens of inclusion and redesign it as a starting point for future development of their practice in relation to this topic. There are 3 elements for submission to evidence the learning of the module: 1. Document and analyse the implications of the potential student profiles and barriers to learning that may exist in their student groups. 2. Redesign a teaching session or assessment strategy to embed UDL. 3. Prepare an action plan detailing future actions for fostering EDI in their teaching and assessment practice.

• Could the result of this module be capped? No

• Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? Yes

Reading and learning resources will be available on the Moodle page for this module.

This timetable is not currently available, please contact the Centre For Teaching & Learning Department.