Design principles for applied learning in higher education: A pedagogical approach for Non-traditional students in an online course
Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The profile of university students is changing, as a larger percentage of the populationfill our online and on-campus classrooms. A new teacher education program commenced at anAustralian university in 2011, with an explicit focus on applied learning. The course highlights apedagogy whose time may have (finally) arrived in higher education. A set of design principles,underpinned theoretically by contemporary learning philosophies have been developed to provide aguiding framework for course developers and teaching staff in the fully online program. This paperdescribes the applied learning design principles; how they manifest in course development anddelivery, and the study being undertaken to examine their effectiveness. The research seeks toidentify the extent to which the course design better enables students to integrate theory withpractice, and develop the skills required in their workplace. This study is designed to create a set oftested design principles to encourage and support applied learning design in higher educationsettings.
Authors: Jillian Downing, Jan Herrington
Institutions: University of Tasmania, Murdoch University
Language: English
Topic: Online and Blended Learning
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1577792551