Headway online feedback

ARMENIAN NATIONAL AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY

Liana Vardanyan

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Headway online feedback: Strengths

• ✔ Enriches Vocabulary: First of all, we need to make sure that our lessons are oriented at not only practicing students’ active language skills but also giving them a chance to increase their word-stock by learning more words and phrases that they can use converse at a higher level of language competency.
• ✔ Builds Interaction: Secondly, it’s important that students have a chance to communicate and collaborate by using the target language either actively or passively. They need to be put to work in groups or pairs, learn to learn from each other, improve their language skills through a variety of tasks and exercises which help to improve interaction skills in the target language.
• ✔ Includes Realia: Thirdly, it’s important that students’ learning experience is based on real-life situations to which they can relate to. This can be done with different types of activities, starting from bringing objects to the classroom to teach vocabulary to place the students in simulation activities where they need to play some roles, e.g. customer/waiter.

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Headway online feedback: Weaknesses

✔Grammar excersises do not have communicatve character

✔The content of the book is overloaded for limited hours and great number of students.

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ECTS Users Guide

• Building programmes
• Assigning learning outcomes to them
• Workload
• Assessments
• Credit recognition
• Documentation, etc.

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Importance/understanding of ECTS�

• Ensures transparency of programs and the related workload and protects students from overloaded programs;

• Facilitates the movement of students and graduates for study and work;

• Helps to build trust, transparency and cooperation between higher education

systems;

• Emphasizes learning outcomes and related assessment;

• Facilitates flexible learning pathways, lifelong learning and the use of new method of learning, teaching and assessment;

• Underpins the shift to programs developing skills and competences relevant to the needs of society.

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WORKLOAD

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Workload: a quantitative measure of the learning activities that may feasibly be required for the achievement of the learning outcomes (e.g. lectures, seminars, practical work, private study, information retrieval, research, examinations).

Credit: a quantified means of expressing the volume of learning based on the achievement of learning outcomes and their associated workloads

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Learning outcomes

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• Ensures transparency of programs and the related workload and protects students

from overloaded programs;

• Facilitates the movement of students and graduates for study and work;

• Helps to build trust, transparency and cooperation between higher education

systems;

• Emphasizes learning outcomes and related assessment;

• Facilitates flexible learning pathways, lifelong learning and the use of new method

of learning, teaching and assessment;

• Underpins the shift to programs developing skills and competences relevant to the

needs of society.

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Allocation of ECTS�

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There are several approaches to credit allocation, and it is up to the institutions to decide on

which method to use. The alternatives presented below illustrate two different approaches to

allocating credits:

1.Bottom up: The teaching staff define the learning outcomes of each program component,

describe the learning activities and estimate the workload typically needed for a student to

complete these activities. Proposals are collected, analyzed and synthesized and the estimated

workload is expressed in credits

2. Top down: Alternatively, the higher education institution or the faculty may decide from the

start to standardize the size of educational components, giving each one the same credit value

(e.g. 5) or multiples of it (e.g. 5, 10, 15), and thus predefine the number of credits to be allocated

per component. In this case, the course units are often called ‘modules’.

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Principle guidelines:�

• Start with the objectives and the intended learning outcomes

• Intended learning outcomes have to fit into the overall aims of the study programme

and the vision and mission of the HEI and the NQF as well.

• Formulate precise employability oriented learning outcomes

• Define didactics, methods and forms of interaction to facilitate the achievement of

the intended learning outcomes

• Define the necessary content to facilitate the achievement of the learning outcomes

• Use content exemplarily; reduce content in favour of the achievement of intended

learning outcomes and employability

• Define the type of examination appropriately in order to properly measure the

achieved learning outcomes

• Define the mandatory and optional (pre- and post) readings

• Define the amount of necessary self-study hours and contact hours

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Thank you for your attention!

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