Designing for learning
Well-designed and engaging learning experiences
A well-designed curriculum aligns learning activities and assessment tasks with clear learning objectives and provides students with intellectual challenges that help develop their autonomy, reflection and evaluative judgement. Click below to read more about the Melbourne Framework for Educational Excellence’s approach to this topic.
CSHE resources
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Engaging and interactive lectures
Lectures are often considered synonymous with university teaching. When thoughtfully designed and effectively delivered, lectures can offer distinct pedagogical benefits.
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Designing more inclusive assessment
Students with disability will be present in every course and every subject.
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Asking questions to support student learning in class
This short guide has been prepared for those new to teaching in higher education. The purpose is to identify helpful strategies for posing questions to suit five common objectives within the small-group learning environment.
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Internationalisation of the curriculum
The site provides staff with strategies, practical tools, ideas and examples for adding international or intercultural elements to the curricula.
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Constructing effective assessment feedback comments
Evidence-based guidelines on how to construct feedback that can support learner sensemaking, agency and impact.
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Assessment considerations in moving from closed-book to open-book exams
Exams should allow for valid, reliable evidence of students’ achievement of subject learning outcomes.
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Designing authentic mobile learning
Instead of focusing upon strategies to stop our students being distracted by their mobile devices, we can explore how to use them to enhance, augment, and even redefine how they learn. Authentic mobile learning facilitates collaboration, user-generated content, and user-generated learning contexts.
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Managing polarising topics in the classroom
This short guide provides some initial advice for educators in managing polarising topics, beginning with steps you can take prior to teaching, then discusses some elements of leading class discussions.
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Seven ways to improve students' online learning experiences in your subject
Modest modifications to the way in which you approach online learning as a teacher, and how you provide online learning tasks for your students, can really improve the teaching and learning experience of both you and your students.
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Multiple choice questions: An introductory guide
This Guide focuses on addressing issues with MCQs and helping to make the use of MCQs in assessment of learning more valid, reliable and productive.
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Writing learning outcomes: A practical guide for academics
This guide provides some general background information on learning outcomes, their function and some practical strategies for how to start thinking about and writing them.
Other resources
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Educators Guide
The University’s gateway to resources designed to help academic staff create and deliver exceptional learning experiences for students.
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Generative AI in teaching and learning
The University's central hub for guides and resources on using generative AI in teaching and learning
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Design and plan learning
Resources to help you structure your subject, align to outcomes, and set students up to succeed.