UCD Open Educational Resources
UCDOER have been established by UCD Teaching and Learning to host a number of open educational resources, drawing on materials from its collection of programmes and workshops. Those with a teaching function within higher education may wish to engage with this content as module(s) within UCD’s Professional Certificate/Diploma in University Teaching and Learning.
Currently, the material supplied within this OER can be related to two of the modules in the Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and Learning, each of which carries 7.5 ECTS Credits at NFQ Level 9. The modules available are:
- Becoming a Better University Teacher.
- Assessing and Teaching for Learning.
Becoming a Better University Teacher is an overarching module within UCDOER, offering academics an opportunity to engage, and re-engage with the fundamentals of university teaching.
Becoming a Better University Teacher offers a series of self-directed sessions dealing with current practice in teaching and learning. Each is delivered from the point of view of the end user, in so doing one may find the various exercises of benefit at any given point of the academic calendar and to academics of all stages of their careers.
In the section ‘Assessing and Teaching for Learning’ users are invited to review their assessment principles in accordance with ten guiding principles, identifying the types of assessment used and judging their relevance and worth against the written learning outcomes.
In the section ‘Session Plans and Modules’ users are able to address their design and implementation of teaching by following a series of exercises aimed at affirming the principle of Constructive Alignment within teaching.
In the section ‘Engaging Students’ users are confronted with a myriad of potential methodologies and practices for implementing active learning and provided with guidance on how to best structure their sessions to enable global outcomes become specific to the individual learner.
