Overview
With technology at the forefront of everything we do, the importance of bringing it into the classroom has never been more evident. While there are many classroom apps for students already available, the majority are created by non-educators and don't meet practical classroom needs.
Developing an educational app to meet specific learning needs can be a useful and creative teaching tool to engage students, share useful teaching resources and support students in making their own apps.
Evolve with QUTeX
QUTeX furthers the professional development of educators with real-world learning activities relevant to real classrooms. With this course, you'll identify a learning need in your teaching context and learn how to make an app for your school or classroom customised to your students.
Who should participate?
This 13-hour online module has been designed for pre-service teachers, teachers and education leaders who want to learn how to create an app for their classroom activities. This course is also for edupreneurs with an interest in developing an educational app from an identified learning need.
For Australian educators, this module aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST):
1.2 Understand how students learn
2.6 Information and Communication Technology
3.3 Use teaching strategies
3.4 Select and use resources
4.1 Support student participation
4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs
6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice
7.4 Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities
This online module is open for international enrolments.
Your expert facilitator Steve Lang
Steve Lang is Head of Department, Middle School at Kedron State High School. He has spent over 25 years in high schools teaching both in the UK and here in Queensland, designing innovative pedagogies to blend digital technologies into classrooms and working with staff to develop capacity and confidence in the adoption of technology. Steve is a Doctoral candidate at QUT and has been a sessional academic at QUT since 2004. He especially enjoys collaborating with colleagues across the different phases of education.
Core concepts
This online course covers a range of topics around creating an educational app, including:
- developing an idea from an identified learning need
- designing and developing a simple app that meets a learning need
- testing a prototype with students.
Details
Where and when
This course will be held entirely online, via Blackboard, QUT's online learning platform. This course runs for 4 weeks (13 hours in total, or approximately 3 hours per week). No additional software is required.
Blackboard access will remain active for 2 weeks after the course.
When: Registrations for 2022 are now closed.
Certification
For this online module you will be issued a Certificate of Attainment for 13 hours of CPD.
Cost
| Registration Type | Cost |
|---|---|
| Early Bird Registration (closes 4 weeks prior to course) | $355.30 (including GST) |
| Standard Registration | $418.00 (including GST) |
| QUT Alumni / Student / Staff Registration | $313.50 (including GST) |
| Group Registration (4 or more) | $355.30 (including GST) per person |
More details
Module Plus – Creating apps in the classroom
Extend your learning with the Module Plus. In the Module Plus, participants will apply the knowledge they acquired in the first module by completing an authentic assessment that can be used in their workplace. On completion of the Module Plus, participants will also earn credit for a postgraduate unit. For more information, click here.
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