Course development

Over the past 4 years the course seminars have been aligning more and more with the course project to add more meaning and real-world application to how the course objectives are achieved. This year we plan to keep refining in this direction by reordering some of the main topics so that the learning arrives just before it is needed in the course project. The project requirements will get more detail to specifically include links to provisions and standards, more guidance on development of requirement specifications, and more a holistic design focus (i.e. this is not a risk assessment project like some others in the program).

We have successfully added more practical application through seminars and ‘flipped classroom’ style recorded lectures. We have increased communication with guest teachers to improve the course-specificity and pedagogy of their sessions, and we need to continue with this. We have developed some ‘Guest teacher guides’ which we will share with guest teachers next year. We will also enact ‘studio days’ during class time to benefit more from teacher expertise and provide coaching during supervision sessions.

We have successfully added more practical application through seminars and ‘flipped classroom’ style recorded lectures. We have increased communication with guest teachers to improve the course-specificity and pedagogy of their sessions, and we need to continue with this. We have developed some ‘Guest teacher guides’ which we will share with guest teachers next year. We will also enact ‘studio days’ during class time to benefit more from teacher expertise and provide coaching during supervision sessions.