Curriculum Transformation Seminar Series 1
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: ALIGNING OUTCOMES FOR PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT
Wondering if students are achieving unit of study outcomes? How everything fits together in your program? How to help instructors with learning outcomes?
I’ll show you how Learning Outcomes are used at the University of Guelph in Canada as the framework for units of study and curricula. You’ll see how everything from questions on tests through to the University level graduate qualities are pulled together. I’ll share with you how we analysed a series of courses in a program and then a specific course to demonstrate the versatility of outcomes as the framework for education. Finally, I will advocate for involving the group who experience our curricula first-hand – our students – in outcomes development and improvement. See you there!
John Dawson has been researching and teaching protein biochemistry at the University of Guelph for over 15 years. After over a decade as the Curriculum Chair in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, he became the founding faculty Director of the College of Biological Sciences Office of Educational Scholarship and Practice (COESP). In addition to his cardiovascular research profile, he has won the University of Guelph Faculty Association Distinguished Professorial Award, the Provost's Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, and the Special Merit Award from the University of Guelph.
In 2012, John led his department to develop learning outcomes for their majors and map their curriculum for the first time while providing support to faculty to construct course learning outcomes. John’s current research examines how to measure critical thinking as a learning outcome while he continues to contribute to his College’s professional and employability skills curricula.
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Tuesday 17 April 2018
3.30pm - 4.30pm Rooms 249/250, Level 2, Fisher Library South (F04)
Free