Designing education

By formulating learning objectives you can make clear what you want students to achieve in your education. You can formulate learning objectives on different levels. You can use task objectives, course objectives and final qualifications.

Constructive alignment by Biggs & Tang (2011) is a principle you can use to shape your education. Constructive alignment is about purposefully connecting learning objectives, learning activities and assessment with each other. 

Designing a new course can be overwhelming. Where should you start? Often you don't start from scratch, but you renew an existing course.

A lot of things come into play when taking over a course or preparing your education. This manual gives you a number of handles that will make this process easier.

During this course from Education Support, you will learn how to improve the design of your own course. You do this creatively, using theories about active learning, (formative) feedback, the functioning of the brain, and evaluating your education.

Radboud Educational Clips is a creative team with different specialties. They have educators, videographers, graphic designers, and scriptwriters available to help you with multimedia in your teaching.

Rubrics describe accomplishments from students on different levels and provide both the lecturers and students with insights into the learning developments and learning achievements.

The course manual is the first place a student checks for information on a course. Everything that a student wants to know about a course, has to be available here.

To help you with formulating an assignment, we have created a short checklist with key questions. If you can answer these questions positively, then you can assume you have created a clear assignment.

Group assignments are a valuable addition to students’ individual learning process. In group assignments students are not only challenged to use their academic skills, they also need to use social skills.

As a starting teacher at Radboud University, you have a lot to deal with. A new working environment, your own course, testing and the University Teaching Qualification. We have listed the useful information for you in a clear overview.