Watch anyone engaged in genuine learning, whether it’s a child wobbling on their bike, a filmmaker wrestling with an edit, or a student drafting an essay, and one thing becomes clear: learning is messy. It’s tangled, unpredictable, and full of false starts. The progress of learning never moves in a straight […]
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Seeing the Thinking: What Creative Arts Assessment Practices Can Offer Other Disciplines
Generative AI has forced higher education into a renewed conversation about assessment, which has been long overdue. Universities and educators are now asking familiar assessment questions with urgency: What exactly are we assessing? How do we recognise evidence of student thinking? And what does authentic learning look like when polished outputs can […]
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Closing the Gap Between Learning Outcomes and Student Learning in Higher Education
Learning outcomes remain central to our courses. They influence course proposals, underpin accreditation documents, guide course reviews, and enable curriculum mapping across units and assessments. Institutionally, they are vital. They ensure coherence, provide reassurance, and uphold accountability. They enable us to confidently articulate what a graduate of a specific course […]
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Course Design as an Ecosystem: What Happens Upstream Matters Downstream
Photo by Mitchell Kmetz on Unsplash We often talk about course design as though it exists in parts.A class, assessment, unit, course, and policy. Each of these feels discrete, manageable, and contained. But course design isn’t just a collection of isolated parts. It’s an ecosystem. And like any ecosystem, everything is interconnected. Beyond […]
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When Did Learning Stop Being the Real World?
The phrase “in the real world” is often used in higher education. Educators use it to inspire students, while industry partners critique courses with it. It’s spoken casually, as if its meaning is clear and universally accepted. In the classroom, phrases such as “in the real world……………..(fill in the blank)” […]