RWL Curriculum

Design principles and practice examples

Lyn Alderman

RWL Curriculum

Curriculum informed by practiceUndergraduate course - experiential learning

model with ungraded units for whole of course (UTS, 1996)

Integrated problem based learning for whole of school (UoN, 1984-2005)

One year paid work placement opportunities and experiential learning units offered to all students (Swinburne, 2005)

A university for the Real World embedded (QUT, 2009)

Experiential learning model Pre-enrolment criteria –

employment in the field

Students provided industry currency and academics/curriculum provided theory

Research professional practice strand across all years through learning contracts

Recognition of prior learning strongly upheld

Assessment policy – all units were ungraded and examinations were banned

Stable timetable for whole of course, academics moved their delivery

Problem Based Learning model

One unit per semester

Linear delivery

All assessment integrated horizontal and vertical

Each year has a theme and project budget

Each stream has a vertical presence

Experiential PBL international model

PBL

Student

Study Centre

UniversityTheoreticalknowledge

Localcontext

Industryknowledge

Mid semester entry challenge

Diverse educational backgrounds

Are we talking the same language?

Definitions of assessment

Over 200 different titles for examination and some ambiguous titles such as assignment 1, 2, 3 and 4

One institutional set of assessment tasks reportable through the academic database

http://www.otq.qut.edu.au/guidelines/guidelines_assessment_tasks_july_2009.pdf

Mapping assessment - semester

Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Communication 20% 35% 45%

History 35% 65%

Construction 15% 15% 70%

Design 15% 40% 45%

Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject A Subject A

Subject B Subject B

Subject C Subject C

Subject D Subject D

Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject A Subject A

Subject B Subject B

Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject A Subject A

Subject B Subject B

Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject F Subject F

Subject B Subject C

Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Subject A Subject F

Subject B

Yea

r 4

Cal

enda

r Y

ear

Subject D

Yea

r 1

Yea

r 2

Yea

r 3

Subject D Subject D

Yea

r 5

Semester 1 Semester 2

Subject DSubject D

Subject DSubject D

Subject D

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