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Creative learning, TECL framework, Aims & goals, Instructional activities, Modes of delivery, Learning journey

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Mentoring the Creative Craft of Learning Design

Mentoring the Creative Craft of Learning Design
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Creative learning, TECL framework, Aims & goals, Instructional activities, Modes of delivery, Learning journey

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Course Description
Mentoring the Creative Craft of Learning Design is scaffolded so it anchors and builds on the skills learned in course 1, Your joyful 21st Century Learning Framework. At its heart the course is an exercise in retrieval practice by applying what you learned in course 1 and overseen by an expert mentor. It does this by providing immediate and personal mentoring support to ensure that the TECL learning framework is applied artfully to your course designs. Turning knowledge of the Kadenze way into the ‘know-how’ of modern learning design requires practice at understanding the forms and impacts of the underlying principles of learning design and then assembling them into a structure larger than the sum of its parts. Building know-how through practice will enable you to go do the Kadenze way. 

Consequently, the focus is on upskilling teachers, instructors and learning designers to implement the substance, nuances and subtleties of the TECL learning framework through practice. The first course of the program introduced all the moving parts of TECL and asked everyone to prepare a TECL Learning Plan. This course takes that a step further. Through your cognitive and creative efforts, you will develop acuity in assessing contexts and distinguishing between problems, find layered meanings and implications in new materials and contexts, re-examine design choices by testing design in action, and all with an expert coach. 

To complete this course (and program), you will be asked to select an instructor to be your mentor; one of the instructors who led course 1. The expert you select is drawn from Kadenze’s global team of instructors and associate reviewers and, because they are expert in the Kadenze way and known from course 1, they guarantee personalised and bespoke insights into your needs as you transform your learning design practice.
COURSE CONTENT
Students will identify a course they will be required to design and teach in the coming months. They will do this alongside an appropriate mentor by retrieving knowledge from earlier challenge exercises, new experiences and visualising and mentally rehearsing what you might do differently from one time to the next. 

The mentoring will occur in four phases. These are sequential and build on each other in ways which gauge progress and accountability.
  1. Preparing and aligning. This starts with a forensic examination of the already completed TECL Learning Plan.  A working partnership will be established, goals for the new course agreed, and arrangements ensuring productive closure  of the mentoring put in place.  
  2. Scoping and negotiating. This work will be conducted as a sprint, a speedy but thoughtful exercise in growing expertise based on your strengths, capabilities and boldness. Normally conducted over an intensive two-week period, your mentor will work with you to establish the appropriate scope and scale for your project and to maximise your success in a time-poor environment.
  3. Growing connoisseurship. As you work through your project, your mentor leads you through a process of reflection through questioning. This will include questions which investigate a particular situation (eg How might that be more enticingly proposed?), discover patterns of practice (eg As you do this, how might you get in your own way?) and empower (eg What scares you about this?).
  4. Closing for autonomy. This mentoring episode is tightly focused.  At closure it is important to be explicit about the learning achieved and how it has been applied in action. In this way mentoring plays a crucial role in helping you integrate elements of course 1 into your ongoing practice.

It is accepted that one form of practice that helps us learn from experience is reflection and so mentors will lead a process of reflective thinking, provocation, corrective feedback, and adaptation to draw out key aspects of the TECL framework and apply those insights to your new course under development. The following are ‘illustrations of challenge’ you are likely to encounter with your mentor:

  • What practical things have I done in my course design to meet the engagement and participation challenges of contemporary education?
  • Where and how can I strengthen experiential, embodied, and aesthetic learning?
  • Where is my pedagogy of creativity most obvious?  
  • When and how have I selected and set Instructional Activities which are not boring? 
  • Where does Live, Synchronous and Asynchronous delivery best serve an instructional activity’s learning purpose?
  • How and where are the principles of TECL used to deepen learner engagement?
  • In my course, can I identify all seven strategies for making learning personal and significant?
  • At key moments of the course how have I baked in student choice?
  • How have I modified my learning design to lessen my workload going forward?  


LEARNING OUTCOMES
Below you will find an overview of the Learning Outcomes you will achieve as you complete this course.

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE
Practice retrieving the knowledge and skills of Technology Enabled Creative Learning (TECL) so that the deeper learning and durable retention of TECL can be applied with greater ingenuity and imagination.

LEARNING DESIGN
Gain more secure knowledge of the fundamentals of Technology Enabled Creative Learning (TECL) as a learning framework which turns knowledge of TECL into the ‘know-how’ of TECL infused learning design. 

LEARNING DESIGN
Apply the TECL framework in ways which attend to the metacognitive challenges of contemporary learning design including assessing contexts and distinguishing between problems, finding layered meanings and implications in new materials and varied settings and mentally rehearsing what might be done differently next time. 

LEARNING DESIGN
Reassemble the dimensions of TECL into a learning structure which is larger than the sum of its parts. 

MENTORING 
Appraise the effectiveness of your mentoring sprint as a mode of learning to shape your emerging learning design and its alignment with your personal learning preferences. 


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