Designing an Integrated University Course (DIUC)

The DIUC course is designed to introduce the participants to the fundamentals of designing a university course through a collaborative process that takes the following elements into consideration:

•    Situational Factors
•    Learning Goals
•    Feedback and Assessment
•    Teaching/Learning Activities

The course uses learning-centered approach to help participants create multiple opportunities for students to experience significant learning, not only in terms of increased knowledge, but also through regular application of that knowledge.

At the end of the classroom segment of the course (18 hours), the participants will be asked to redesign a unit from a course of their choosing using the principles and processes they learned in the course. They will be given the opportunity to present their work to their colleagues as well as submit their written work for publication on this website.

Important: If you want to use the ideas and/or words contained in any article on this site in another written work or presentation or class that is not part of the TPD’s courses, please write to author for permission and then give the author credit in your work.

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The participants’ course assignments are published on this website to promote sharing of ideas about the course topics. All work is the intellectual property of the writer. As such, any copying of this work, even short sections of the work, is theft and is forbidden.

Participants in TPD courses can read these assignments and communicate with the authors by email or by the course blog. In addition, participants can submit drafts of their assignments to the course trainers or fellow participants for review and comment. Participants are encouraged to revise and improve their work based on this type of communication.

However, all written work submitted by participants as individual assignments must be the original work of the participant. If any participant submits work that is completely or partially copied from any source, they will be failed in the course and their case will be submitted to university authorities for disciplinary action.

If there is any question in the participant’s minds as to what constitutes ‘plagiarism’, they should ask their course trainer, submitting their written work and noting where they got their ideas from. The course trainer will inform the participant if what they wrote is in violation of this policy.

As teachers and participants in pedagogic training, it is important to share ideas and work together at times during the course. However, for individual assignments, this freedom to read and discuss other people’s work comes with the responsibility to act responsibly and honesty.

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