Curriculum Development

Promoting effective and engaging curriculum, teaching and learning

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The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) promotes an effective and engaging curriculum.
CTL embeds the principles of the Southern Cross Model with supporting educational technologies, digital learning environments and future pedagogies to optimise student learning outcomes.

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The Southern Cross Model: an overview. Includes Key Features, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Student Feedback, Staff Experiences and Results and Professional Learning support and resources available to staff.

The Southern Cross Model
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At Southern Cross University (SCU), integrating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into the Southern Cross Model ensures that unit development is not only flexible and inclusive but also responsive to the varied needs of students.

Universal Design for Learning in the SCM

Design

Course design, curriculum design, unit design, teaching resources design, non-unit resources design and Graduate Attributes.

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Develop

Teaching Resources, Non-unit resources, video, graphics, interactives, SCU internal promotions and support, using open educational resources.

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Teach

Academic Integrity, Engaging Students, Focus on Learning, Online Teaching and Learning, Technology Integration, Evaluate your Teaching, Teaching in the Blackboard Environment and New to Teaching.

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Assess

Marking, Feedback and Grading, Designing assessments for learning, Rubrics, Turnitin, Types of Assessment, Designing an Assessment Scheme, Assessing Interaction and Participation of Blackboard Tools.

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