Overview
This Module Plus is an opportunity to design, develop and implement an app for the purpose of meeting a specific learning need, encouraging your students to engage with a concept, sharing teaching resources or supporting students in making their own apps. The customised app may be the fulfilment of the prototype you created in the learning module. This is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of how to create and use apps in education through a guided process of design, development, implementation, evaluation, review and reflection.
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You will apply your knowledge and skills to build an app and prepare a curriculum or lesson plan explaining how you will implement it in your educational context. After conducting the learning experience, you will evaluate it by gathering feedback from your students and reflecting on what you have learned before documenting your recommendations.
Who should participate?
This online module is for participants who have completed the 13-hour Creating apps in the classroom learning module. It provides practitioners with evidence of their professional learning.
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
During this online assessment you will:
- Design and develop an educational app that meets a specific learning need.
- Critically reflect on your learning experiences during the app development process to inform your development as a teacher.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the app and recommend improvements for future designs.
Details
Where and when
This course will be held entirely online, via Blackboard, QUT's online learning platform. You will use QUT’s online learning platform to discuss the assessment tasks with your educator and fellow learners.
When:
- 10 October - 6 November 2022
This course runs for 4 weeks (62 hours in total). You will have 12 weeks in total to complete all requirements from the Module Plus start date.
Certification
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Please familiarise yourself with QUT’s Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct.
For this online module you will be issued a Certificate of Attainment for 62 hours of CPD.
On successful completion, you’ll also earn credit for a postgraduate unit (six credit points) that will be applied as advanced standing when you enrol in QUT’s Graduate Certificate in Education or Master of Education.
Cost
| Registration type | Cost |
|---|---|
| Early Bird registration (closes 4 weeks prior to course commencement) | $589.00 (including GST) |
| Standard registration* | $654.50 (including GST) |
| QUT Alumni / Students / Staff* | $490.90 (including GST) |
| Group (4 or more)* | $589.00 (including GST) per person |
* Registration closes 1 week prior to course commencement. Please email qutex@qut.edu.au if you would like to register a group.
More details
Prior to enrolling into the Module Plus course, participants must complete the pre-requisite 13 hour Creating apps in the classroom learning module.
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