Learning

Quality teaching practices include an awareness and accommodation of your students and their learning needs for success. Do you know the answer to the following?

• Delivery modes for learning - Have your students studied in an online environment before? What level of academic skills or digital literacy do they bring with them or require support with?
• Principles for learning - Are you utilising learning theory to accommodate the diversity and/or range of learning needs of your students? What knowledge, skills or expertise are your students bringing into the learning environment that you can build upon?
• Levels of learning - Does the Bloom’s ‘levels of learning’ hierarchy support the course intended learning outcomes in your teaching activities?
• Preferences for learning – Are you utilising a range of teaching methods to accommodate a range of preferred learning styles? Do you offer opportunities for students to guide elements of their own learning?
• Quality learning practices – Do the ‘levels of learning’ in your course intended learning outcomes match the ‘level of learning’ you plan to teach and assess?
• Student diversity, equity and partners – Do you provide all students, regardless of background or ability, with an equitable learning experience?Are your student’s school-leavers, mature age or international students? Do you need to consider any additional resources or supports to enable these students to engage and succeed?
• Work integrated learning - If your course has a work placement, how is it integrated for a holistic approach to learning?

The BOLD Learning and Teaching Practices provide clear guidelines to support teaching practices for different delivery/study modes, opportunities for self-assessment and reflection on current teaching practices, and opportunities for collaborative discussion with peers and learning designers to enhance online teaching practices. The minimum course expectations for facilitating a quality learning journey to support student success are outlined throughout all focus areas of the BOLD Learning and Teaching Practices.