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Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education

Developing capable tertiary educators who are critically reflective, culturally competent and future focussed.
An Otago Polytechnic Capable NZ programme.

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Class social bookmarking account for sharing resources

All resources will be compiled in a class account called GDTEOP on a social bookmarking site known as: delicious.com. This means that you can add resources and share them. Categorising: resources for each topic need to be tagged. For example, material about learning design would be tagged with GDTEOP (for the programme) and learning design (for the topic). Individual accounts: you may also like to set up an individual delicious account to compile material for yourself, sharing only material on the class account that you believe is relevant. Sharing material: to share websites and online articles: login to GDTEOP; Click Add link; Add tags - GDTEOP + name of topic. Outline why the resource is relevant and useful for the topic. Login details: these will be provided at the start of the course.

Learning and Teaching in Practice

Resources are listed under the names of the topics and sub-topics in this course, starting with Praxis.

Praxis: integration of theory and practice - Overview

Merlot Pedagogy The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education (infed)

Learner Characteristics

Material for this topic is compiled under several categories: learning styles, metacognition, literacy and numeracy, and prior learning.

Learning Styles and Metacognition

• Styles/ Learning styles.

Culture

• Understanding cultural differences

Theoretical Concepts and Models

• Deep and Surface Learning
• Constructivism
• Kolb's Learning Cycle
• Honey and Mumford’s Learning Cycle builds on Kolb's cycle and identifies 4 learning preferences or styles

Feedback: Models and Processes

• Feeding Forward

Reflective Practice

• An overview of Reflective Practice with some definitions of reflection and professional learning, and beginning information about critical reflection and reflective writing.