Short Courses and Workshops: Improving the Impact of Learning, Teaching and Professional Development

by Moon,Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780749432669
• ISBN10: 0749432667
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

(Kogan Page) Explains how to ensure that students retain material taught in schools, as well as in short courses and workshops. Provides information on such key issues as course building, learner orientation, facilitating learning, and designing courses for impact. A resource and reference for teachers and administrators.

Author Biography

Jennifer Moon is Staff Development Officer at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	1	(12)
The process of building a course - aims, outcomes and their relationship to course impact	13	(17)
Introduction	13	(1)
Course development	14	(1)
Structuring factors that guide the development of a course	15	(2)
The differences between aims, learning outcomes and objectives	17	(1)
Aims	18	(1)
Learning outcomes	19	(5)
Learning outcomes and the impact of short courses	24	(1)
Assessment criteria and assessment	25	(2)
Some general points about course development	27	(3)
Learning from short courses: the context of learning	30	(26)
Introduction	30	(2)
Learning and instructing	32	(4)
The image of learning	36	(3)
The role of theories of learning	39	(2)
The subject matter of learning and knowing	41	(5)
The environment of learning	46	(4)
The social environment and learning	50	(2)
The context for learning on a short course	52	(4)
Learning from short courses: depth and meaning in learning	56	(24)
Introduction	56	(1)
Quality in learning and the reresentation of learning	57	(3)
Deep and surface approaches to learning	60	(5)
Meaning and the process of learning	65	(4)
A map of learning and the representation of learning	69	(2)
Stages of learning	71	(5)
Other patterns of learning	76	(2)
Implications of the map of learning and the representation of learning	78	(2)
Learning from short courses: the differences between learners	80	(16)
Introduction	80	(1)
The learner's orientation to a short course	81	(4)
Readiness and `preparedness' for learning	85	(4)
Learning behaviour	89	(4)
The quality of thought in short course learning	93	(3)
Instruction and the facilitation of learning: the context of instruction	96	(8)
Introduction	96	(1)
Relating learning and teaching	96	(2)
The conceptions of instruction	98	(6)
Instruction and the facilitation of learning: the facilitation of learning for impact	104	(20)
Introduction	104	(1)
Facilitation of learning for impact	105	(15)
Orchestrating learning across the whole course	120	(1)
Technical skills of instruction	121	(3)
Designing courses for impact	124	(10)
Introduction	124	(1)
Course design for impact	124	(2)
A framework to improve the impact of learning in short courses	126	(4)
Components of courses - an introduction	130	(4)
The components of a short course	134	(29)
Introduction	134	(1)
Course planning or administrative activities	134	(3)
Activities that involve actual instruction or the delivery of information	137	(1)
Activities that facilitate group functioning	138	(4)
Activities to support the learner in implementing change in practice	142	(1)
Provision of overviews of the course - introductory or summarizing activities	143	(3)
Activities to deepen or to enable integration of learning	146	(4)
Reflective activities	150	(4)
Activities to support individual learning or coping behaviours	154	(3)
Assessment activities to evaluate personal training	157	(3)
Course evaluation activities	160	(3)
Improving the impact of short courses: a summary of the main ideas	163	(13)
Introduction	163	(1)
Aims and learning outcomes (Chapter 1)	163	(2)
Learning on short courses (Chapters 2, 3, and 4)	165	(7)
Instruction in short courses (Chapters 5, 6)	172	(2)
Designing courses for impact (Chapter 7)	174	(1)
Components of courses (Chapter 8)	175	(1)
References	176	(7)
Index	183