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MICROCREDENTIAL

Critique: Issues in Learning Design

$ 1,543.00

START DATE

07 April

MODE

Online

DURATION

6 wks

COMMITMENT

Avg 12 hrs/wk

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Meet the Experts

Dr Keith Heggart

Dr Keith Heggart
Course Designer

Keith is an Apple Distinguished Educator and a Google Certified Innovator. He is currently the academic lead for the Graduate Certificate in Learning Design at UTS and has established a long career as a high school educator, working in school leadership in government and non-government schools in the UK and Australia.

Keith's research focuses on learning and instructional design, educational technology and civics and citizenship education. He is currently exploring the way that online learning platforms can assist in the formation of active citizenship among Australian youth.

Keith was the recipient of the 2021 Emerging Scholar Award from the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE).

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Dr John Vulic

Dr John Vulic
Course Coordinator

John is the academic lead for the Graduate Certificate in Learning Design at UTS. Over the past 15+ years, John has established an extensive career in learning design and educational management, spanning private, government, and tertiary education sectors.

As an early career researcher, John dedicates his efforts to advancing the fields of learning, instructional design, and educational technology. His current research explores the design of computational models to simulate learning dynamics within classroom settings.

In 2022, John was a co-recipient of the Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) Excellence in Innovation award for the Graduate Certificate in Learning Design.  

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Have you heard how big data is bringing about changes in education and training? And how learners’ data are being protected – or not – when different learning platforms are used? In this microcredential you will examine current, historical and emerging issues in the field of learning design. You will research, design, and develop an ethically suitable and culturally appropriate infographic to educate learners as part of a solution to a specific issue, while critically reflecting on your own learning process.

 

About this microcredential

This microcredential will inspire you to think more creatively and critically about how to ensure your learning design practice is inclusive and accessible for all learners, now and in the future. You’ll begin with an exploration into ethical practice in learning design and examine the challenges faced as a learning designer. You’ll explore topics including ethical considerations in learning design, privacy concerns, appropriate collection and use of learner data, the importance of context and cultural sensitivity, and copyright.

The topics and approaches explored throughout the course will be put into action when you design appropriate learning experiences in your particular context. You’ll investigate examples of unethical learning design, as well as finding and reflecting on appropriate learning design from an ethical perspective.  

Key benefits of this microcredential

This microcredential has been designed to:

  • Equip you with the skills to ethically analyse challenges and issues in the field of learning design
  • Enhance your practice with the latest thinking and approaches in learning design evaluation
  • Strengthen your ability to critique and evaluate culturally relevant pedagogies, learning materials and learning designs
  • Provide you with practical skills in learning design that can be applied in various industries.  

This microcredential aligns with the 3-credit point subject, Critique: Issues in Learning Design (010303) in the Graduate Certificate in Learning Design.

This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions.

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Who should do this microcredential?

This microcredential is aimed at professionals from a wide range of sectors and backgrounds who are involved in the development and facilitation of learning and education, including, but not limited to:

  • Learning designers
  • HR professionals
  • Instructional designers
  • Trainers
  • School teachers
  • Academics
  • PhD students.  

Price

Full price: $1,543 (GST-free)*

Early bird price: $1,389 (GST-free)* Early bird price ends on Monday 10 March 2025, 11.59pm (AEDT).

This course is set at full price for the duration of our Black Friday sale 12:01am 25/11/2024 to 11:59pm 08/12/2024. Use SAVE20 at checkout to save 20% off selected courses. See https://open.uts.edu.au/campaign-tcs/

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

Discounts are available for this course. For further details and to verify if you qualify, please check the Discounts section under Additional course information

Enrolment conditions

Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions. 

COVID-19 response 

UTS complies with latest Government health advice. Delivery of all courses complies with the UTS response to COVID-19.

Additional course information

Course outline

This microcredential is comprised of six modules, delivered over six weeks. Each module features self-study materials, interactive activities such as quizzes, multimedia presentations, short video and audio recordings and peer critiques, as well as facilitated, online sessions. These weekly, optional live sessions provide an opportunity to apply the content to practical and authentic examples drawn from the workplace, with the course culminating in an industry led expression session.

The following content will be delivered during the course:

  • Module 1: Inclusion

Begin with an exploration of inclusion, and how it affects learning designers as well as how to embrace the principles of inclusivity as part of our design practice.

  • Module 2: Diversity

Rediscover your identity, as educators and instructors, the identities of the students we design for, diversity within pedagogy and curriculum and how to enact action and change.

  • Module 3: Privacy and copyright

Address one of the most challenging aspects of learning design - privacy and copyright. Examine licensing, open education and how to ensure that you remain compliant in your designs.

  • Module 4: Designing for accessibility

Learn how to design for diverse learners, recognise learner needs, the WCAG Guidelines and culturally relevant education.

  • Module 5: Socially just learning design

Examine what is meant by socially just learning design and how open education, UDL and social justice might inform learning design work.

  • Module 6: Expression session

Engage in a practical workshop hosted by an industry expert that combines the ideas, concepts and tools developed throughout the course and puts them into practice.

Course delivery

  • This microcredential includes weekly, optional online sessions facilitated by an expert UTS academic, supporting self-study and online learning activities
  • The optional live sessions focus on applying the course content to practical and authentic examples drawn from the workplace
  • Regular formative quizzes throughout the course allow participants to track their progress.  

 

 

Course learning objectives

Upon successful completion of this microcredential, you should be able to:

  • Examine the ethical challenges and issues that learning designers must navigate within the learning design field
  • Critique and evaluate learning materials from an ethical perspective
  • Construct learning designs and elements that are ethical and appropriate to their context
  • Reflect and evaluate own and others’ learning and practice
  • Apply effective communication skills and methods that are appropriate to the audience, context and purpose.  

Assessment

Assessment task 1: Infographic (weight: 60%)

  • Research, design and develop an ethically suitable and culturally appropriate infographic to educate learners (length: 1600 x 800 pixels or similar).

Assessment task 2: Reflection and evaluation (weight: 40%)

  • Critically reflect on your learning development over the course, with reference to academic literature. You will consider what you have learned about ethical and culturally appropriate design and explain how you have integrated this into your practice as demonstrated in Assessment task 1. (length: 500 words).

Participants must complete and pass all assessment tasks in the course, in order to pass the microcredential.  

Requirements

To complete this online microcredential, you will need access to a computer or device with adequate internet access and sufficient software and bandwidth to support web conferencing. You will also require an operating system with a web browser compatible with Canvas and Zoom.  

Discounts

Discounts are available for this course as follows: 

  • 10% discount for UTS staff, alumni and students
  • 10% discount for group enrolments of 4 to 9 from the same organisation
  • 15% discount for group enrolments of 10 or more from the same organisation

See below for how to obtain your discount code.

Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price. 

How to obtain your discount code (group enrolments)

Please contact support@open.uts.edu.au with details of group enrolments, to obtain your discount code. Note that group enrolments will not be validated until the minimum number of criteria enrolments have been received.

How to enrol and obtain your UTS staff discount (UTS staff)

Please contact support@open.uts.edu.au in order to secure your enrolment and 10% staff discount code.

How to apply your discount code  

  • If you are eligible for a UTS alumni or student discount, please ensure you have provided your UTS student number during checkout. If you are an alumni and have forgotten your UTS student number, email support@open.uts.edu.au with your full name, UTS degree and year of commencement.  
  • Add this course to your cart 
  • Click on "View Cart" (blue shopping trolley at top right of screen). You will need to sign in or sign up to UTS Open 
  • Enter your eligible code beneath the "Have a discount code?"” prompt and click on the blue "Apply" button 
  • Verify your discount code has been successfully applied before clicking on the blue "Checkout" button. 

Contact us

Please contact FASSSFL@uts.edu.au if you have any questions about the course content, delivery or requirements.

If your query is in relation to enrolment or payment, please email support@open.uts.edu.au

Book a session

Mon 07 Apr 2025-
Fri 16 May 2025
Expert: Dr Keith Heggart, Dr John Vulic
  • This course will be delivered online through Canvas and Zoom sessions. Sessions are optional and will also be recorded. Click on the underlined sessions and hours total link below to reveal specific session details.
  • Online
  • 7 sessions, 10 hours total

This course has a 1 hour introduction on the first Tuesday from 5.00pm, and then runs on Wednesdays from 4.00 PM - 5.30 PM. Live sessions will be facilitated online by using Zoom video sessions. Participants will also need to undertake approximately 10 - 11 hours of self-directed online learning activities each week over 6 weeks.

Enrolments close Monday 7 April 2025 9am AEST, or when all places have been filled, whichever occurs first.

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