Why Study this Course Writing and Development Course?

Course Writing and Development is an online learning course that teaches you the necessary skills of both a good teacher and a professional writer.

To be a good course writer, you need to be multi-skilled. This is the right course for those who want to develop and enhance their skills in writing and later combine their knowledge in teaching and writing.

Course Aims:

  • Determine an appropriate basis for developing a course to suit a given need.
  • Write course documentation and materials methodically and with clarity.
  • Explain differences between levels of study, particularly in post secondary education.
  • Write curriculum documentation for a course.
  • Identify and evaluate sources for course materials and support services for a course.
  • Plan and create a variety of course materials to support learning
  • Establish procedures for reviewing and updating established course materials.
  • Compare relative values of formal course endorsement systems.
  • Plan the implementation of a developed course

 

Lesson Structure

1. Bases for Education
  • Approaches to Education
  • Teacher Centred Learning
  • Student Centred Learning: PBL, Experiential, Montessori, Self paced learning
  • Specialist or Generalist Education
  • Competency Based Training
  • Homework
  • Delivery Modes
  • Issues For Learning; Lifelong learning, Foundation skill development, Reinforcement
  • Problem Based Learning
  • Education Contextualization
  • Trends, Ethics, Equity
  • Establishing Course Aims
2. Course Writing Methodologies
  • Developing Courses
  • Course Outlines
  • Curriculum Documentation
  • Study Notes
  • Continuous or Periodic Course Review and Development
  • Identifying Needs; student perspective, educators perspective, family perspective, community and industry perspective
  • Identifying Resources; student and teacher
  • Writing Aims, Competencies and Assessment Criteria
  • Writing Course Notes
  • Writing Practicals
  • Writing for Clarity and Understanding; principles of good writing, structuring the course
  • Coding Courses
  • Flexible Delivery
  • Applying Strategies for Flexible Delivery
  • Course Components; Assignments, Exercises, Brainstorming, Buzz Groups, Demonstration, Discussion, Case Study, Guest Speakers, Laboratory Work, Lecture, Mutual Lectures, Practical Workshop, Project, Tutorials
3. Level of Study
  • Determining Appropriate Level of Study; Quantitative and Qualitative Factors
  • Descriptors
  • Duration
  • Assessment
  • Levels of Training; e.g. varying certificate levels between UK and Australia
  • Lessons and lesson plans
  • Determining level required
  • Identifying student needs
  • Allowing for different modes of study
  • Structuring a lesson
  • Timing a lesson
  • Evaluating and improving a lesson
  • Levels and kinds of Language
  • Language of learning, and Professional language
  • Determining level of Training
  • Skills and Training Objectives; Competence
4. Curriculum Documentation
  • Scope and Nature
  • Examples
  • Structure and Layout
5. Course Materials
  • Introduction
  • Teaching Resources
  • Learning Resources
  • PBL Project; Develop a new course with minimum use of limited resources: financial and other.
6. Course Material Creation
  • Developing knowledge
  • Applying Knowledge
  • Reflection and Review
  • Developing Skills
  • Innovation and Flexibility
  • Types of Support Materials; documentation, visual elements and illustration, technical aids
  • Factors to Consider when Writing Support Materials
  • Writing for Distance Education; Problems and Solutions
  • Writing a Question
  • Dealing with Practical Aspects of Education
  • Clarity and Consciousness
  • Improving Clarity
  • Understanding Causes of Confusion
  • Ways to Write Concisely
  • Differentiating between Guidelines, Instructions and Procedures
  • Correspondence Course Structure
  • Writing PBL Documentation
  • Handouts
  • Visual Materials; Illustration, Charts
  • Audio Materials, Recorded Presentations
  • Digital Technology; Educational Applications for Digital Technologies
  • Multimedia
  • The Internet
7. Reviewing and Updating Courses
  • Change and Inertia in Education
  • Policies and Procedures to Support Change
  • How to Review a Course
  • Procedure for Changing an Established Course
  • Procedure for Maintaining Currency
8. Recognition and Accreditation
  • Who can Provide Education
  • Universal Recognition; Is it Possible
  • Scope of Endorsement Systems
  • Recognition and Qualifications
  • What is Accreditation
  • The Value of Accreditation
  • Accreditation Myths
  • Recognition and Accreditation Systems
  • Trends
  • Who accredits or recognizes what
  • Secondary, Vocational, University Education
  • Industry Training Boards
  • Accreditation Authorities
  • Other Forms of Recognition
9. Application and Implementation
  • Delivering Classroom Based Courses
  • Session Organisation
  • Delivering Practical Courses Outside a Classroom
  • Delivering Distance Education Courses
  • Customizing Distance Education
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Purpose of Assessment
  • Formulative, Cumulative and Summative Assessment
  • Assessment Policies and Procedures
  • Marking Guidelines for Assignments

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  • Experienced Tutor support
  • Certificate sent to you
  • Online study (Printed notes available)
  • Self paced - no set timetable
  • 12 months to complete course

From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks

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    • Experienced Tutor support
    • Certificate sent to you
    • Online study (Printed notes available)
    • Self paced - no set timetable
    • 12 months to complete course

    From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks

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      Why Study this Course Writing and Development Course?

      Course Writing and Development is an online learning course that teaches you the necessary skills of both a good teacher and a professional writer.

      To be a good course writer, you need to be multi-skilled. This is the right course for those who want to develop and enhance their skills in writing and later combine their knowledge in teaching and writing.

      Course Aims:

      • Determine an appropriate basis for developing a course to suit a given need.
      • Write course documentation and materials methodically and with clarity.
      • Explain differences between levels of study, particularly in post secondary education.
      • Write curriculum documentation for a course.
      • Identify and evaluate sources for course materials and support services for a course.
      • Plan and create a variety of course materials to support learning
      • Establish procedures for reviewing and updating established course materials.
      • Compare relative values of formal course endorsement systems.
      • Plan the implementation of a developed course

       

      Lesson Structure

      1. Bases for Education
      • Approaches to Education
      • Teacher Centred Learning
      • Student Centred Learning: PBL, Experiential, Montessori, Self paced learning
      • Specialist or Generalist Education
      • Competency Based Training
      • Homework
      • Delivery Modes
      • Issues For Learning; Lifelong learning, Foundation skill development, Reinforcement
      • Problem Based Learning
      • Education Contextualization
      • Trends, Ethics, Equity
      • Establishing Course Aims
      2. Course Writing Methodologies
      • Developing Courses
      • Course Outlines
      • Curriculum Documentation
      • Study Notes
      • Continuous or Periodic Course Review and Development
      • Identifying Needs; student perspective, educators perspective, family perspective, community and industry perspective
      • Identifying Resources; student and teacher
      • Writing Aims, Competencies and Assessment Criteria
      • Writing Course Notes
      • Writing Practicals
      • Writing for Clarity and Understanding; principles of good writing, structuring the course
      • Coding Courses
      • Flexible Delivery
      • Applying Strategies for Flexible Delivery
      • Course Components; Assignments, Exercises, Brainstorming, Buzz Groups, Demonstration, Discussion, Case Study, Guest Speakers, Laboratory Work, Lecture, Mutual Lectures, Practical Workshop, Project, Tutorials
      3. Level of Study
      • Determining Appropriate Level of Study; Quantitative and Qualitative Factors
      • Descriptors
      • Duration
      • Assessment
      • Levels of Training; e.g. varying certificate levels between UK and Australia
      • Lessons and lesson plans
      • Determining level required
      • Identifying student needs
      • Allowing for different modes of study
      • Structuring a lesson
      • Timing a lesson
      • Evaluating and improving a lesson
      • Levels and kinds of Language
      • Language of learning, and Professional language
      • Determining level of Training
      • Skills and Training Objectives; Competence
      4. Curriculum Documentation
      • Scope and Nature
      • Examples
      • Structure and Layout
      5. Course Materials
      • Introduction
      • Teaching Resources
      • Learning Resources
      • PBL Project; Develop a new course with minimum use of limited resources: financial and other.
      6. Course Material Creation
      • Developing knowledge
      • Applying Knowledge
      • Reflection and Review
      • Developing Skills
      • Innovation and Flexibility
      • Types of Support Materials; documentation, visual elements and illustration, technical aids
      • Factors to Consider when Writing Support Materials
      • Writing for Distance Education; Problems and Solutions
      • Writing a Question
      • Dealing with Practical Aspects of Education
      • Clarity and Consciousness
      • Improving Clarity
      • Understanding Causes of Confusion
      • Ways to Write Concisely
      • Differentiating between Guidelines, Instructions and Procedures
      • Correspondence Course Structure
      • Writing PBL Documentation
      • Handouts
      • Visual Materials; Illustration, Charts
      • Audio Materials, Recorded Presentations
      • Digital Technology; Educational Applications for Digital Technologies
      • Multimedia
      • The Internet
      7. Reviewing and Updating Courses
      • Change and Inertia in Education
      • Policies and Procedures to Support Change
      • How to Review a Course
      • Procedure for Changing an Established Course
      • Procedure for Maintaining Currency
      8. Recognition and Accreditation
      • Who can Provide Education
      • Universal Recognition; Is it Possible
      • Scope of Endorsement Systems
      • Recognition and Qualifications
      • What is Accreditation
      • The Value of Accreditation
      • Accreditation Myths
      • Recognition and Accreditation Systems
      • Trends
      • Who accredits or recognizes what
      • Secondary, Vocational, University Education
      • Industry Training Boards
      • Accreditation Authorities
      • Other Forms of Recognition
      9. Application and Implementation
      • Delivering Classroom Based Courses
      • Session Organisation
      • Delivering Practical Courses Outside a Classroom
      • Delivering Distance Education Courses
      • Customizing Distance Education
      • Assessment and Evaluation
      • Purpose of Assessment
      • Formulative, Cumulative and Summative Assessment
      • Assessment Policies and Procedures
      • Marking Guidelines for Assignments

      Enrol Now

      • Experienced Tutor support
      • Certificate sent to you
      • Online study (Printed notes available)
      • Self paced - no set timetable
      • 12 months to complete course

      From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks

      Clear

       

      Get a Free Info Pack!

        CourseStream Accreditation.
        Accredited courses.