What I would do differently if I was teaching this course

1. I would rewrite the statement about the purpose of the course, learning outcomes, assessment. I find the writing obscures the meaning. Here is the purpose description:

"The purpose of this course is to enable students to engage in Case Study and Activity-Based learning to develop their professional skills in tertiary teaching with particular regard to learning and teaching design and delivery focussed on experience and activity based methods, projects, case studies, Russell Bishop's "80:20" rule and others and with particular emphasis on vocational contexts."

The lack of correct grammar in this phrase makes it hard for me to grasp the meaning, e.g. the sentence is far to long.

Regarding the statement on Assessment:

Assessment in this course is competence based: you will receive a pass for the course if you meet all the assessment criteria (i.e. if you have the right answers, you will pass - yes, thats usual in education), for each contributing source of evidence (evidence? Makes it sound very serious and scarey).

To continue:

Evidence/artefacts (artefacts? Are we studying anthropology?) for the portfolio will accumulate throughout the course (again, stating the obvious in an obscure way). Ongoing peer review, discussions and feedback .....will influence your selection of evidence/artefacts (evidence and artefacts again - what does this mean?).

The online portfolio may be presented by way of an online platform (platform? What is an online platform? Obscure meaning again). For example, a wiki, blog...or other as appropriate to the cohort (there must be a simpler way of writing this). This will be agreed by the end of the third session (no, it wasn't agreed by the end of the third session).

Now, onto "Sources of evidence and Guidance Criteria."

No. 3 - Teaching practicum:

Your ongoing teaching practice will provide the opportunity for you to collect authentic, triangulated evidence of the design and delivery learning outcomes on your practice.

Authentic, triangulated evidence - sorry, this is completely meaningless to me.

I would ensure that the statement about the course would be written in clear language. If students can understand the aims and objectives of the course, it would be a good start.