Course outline summary
The course is structured around a series of learning activities, divided up into approximately one week at a time but forming an integrated path through the topic and related issues. The full materials for each topic will become available a week before they are needed -- see the course timetable for dates.
Topic 0: Welcome - Induction - Getting started
This induction period gives you time to find your way around the online resources, complete a quiz on managing your time; familiarise yourself with the course material in Brookes Virtual; announce your arrival to the course group and to write a profile to introduce yourself to the group.
Topic 1: Defining IoC: Institutionalised contexts
Topic 1 introduces some readings on IoC and explores definitions of IoC. You will also be asked to explore your institution's involvement with internationalisation and to contribute ideas on 'how to do it'.
Topic 2: The transformative curriculum
The second topic introduces the idea of the transformative curriculum and asks you to consider the 'how to list' in relation to ideas of transformation. You will be asked to discuss your placement of items on a 'continuum of transformation'.
Topic 3: Ways into IoC: Disciplinary contexts
The third topic offers a framework to consider IoC from a disciplinary perspective. You will be asked to populate the framework with the 'how to' ideas already generated and to search the Higher Education Academy (UK) subject centre website and other discipline-based resources to add to your ideas. You will be asked to consider how ideas, that others have posted, might be adapted to your own discipline in terms of pedagogy and assessment.
Topic 4: Your role as change agent for IoC within your institution
In our last topic we will ask you to draw up an action plan for taking IoC forward either in your institution or in your discipline. You will also be asked to write a reflection on what you now understand by IoC, and how this has changed over the course, and to evaluate the course.
After the course
At the end of the course the site will remain open for you to read the work undertaken and to access resources for a further calendar month.
What now on day one?
Proceed to the induction section of this course and begin the familiarisation activities.
