V1 Respect individual and diverse groups of learners
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: inclusive, integrated, relational
- Design inclusive accessible and equitable learning environments and resources
- Demonstrate and promote indigenous and other cultural competence and awareness in learning resources
V2 Promote engagement in learning and equity of opportunity
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic
- Design a variety and choice of learning activities, resources and assessments to support the success of all learners
V3 Use evidence-informed approaches
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: scholarship
- Apply evidence-based frameworks to practice (including DeakinDesign)
- Engage in reflective practice for teaching
- Contribute to scholarship of learning and teaching through sharing of practice, developing evidence-based approaches, dissemination and/or application of research
- Seek opportunities for relevant professional learning activities
V4 Respond to the wider higher education context
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: partnership
- Implement university, faculty and discipline priorities into practice
- Respond to emerging trends and issues within the wider HE context that impact on practice
- Be aware of the changing nature of learner demographics and implications for practice
- Partnering with students, alumni, industry and community to enable meaningful learning experiences
V5 Collaborate with others to enhance practice
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: collaboration
- Collaborate effectively with peers, learners, community and experts to provide high quality resources and learning materials
- Provide expertise and support in collaborative development of learning resources, programs, processes and/or tools
K1 How learners learn
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic, scholarship
- Relevant contemporary learning theory
- Ways to design and develop support materials for learners across a course
- The implications of learners’ discipline backgrounds on learning resources, programs, processes and/or tools
- Ways that learners engage with learning
K2 Approaches to teaching and supporting learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: active and collaborative
- Current teaching practices in the discipline
- Alternative designs and learning materials to deliver on the same outcomes to facilitate a diverse range of learners to learn equitably
K3 Critical evaluation of practice
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: scholarship
- How to collect and analyse evidence and analytics about practice and the impact on learner learning and experience
- Ways to use evidence to measure effectiveness of practice, critical reflection on the evidence and implement changes to practice
- Engage with self or peer reflection of practice
K4 Appropriate use of technologies and resources for learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: digital
- Minimum standards and best practice in design and development of digital tools and resources
- Application of accessibility standards for ways to implement innovative, accessible and inclusive educational technologies
- Affordances of tools and technologies to be able to make recommendations for practice
K5 Requirements for quality assurance and enhancement
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: quality
- Deakin and faculty teaching and learning strategies, policies and procedures
- Ways to review and monitor feedback on practice
- The requirements of subject or professional standards, working with national professional and/or statutory bodies
- Have an understanding of how Deakin’s Graduate Learning Outcomes impact on their practice
A1 Design and plan learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: course-wide, innovation, sustainability
- Design and develop learning materials and activities that are aligned with DeakinDesign Principles
- Develop professional learning activities and innovations to support teaching teams to enhance teaching and learning experiences
- Develop tools and processes to support course and unit development
A2 Teach and support learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: active and collaborative, integrated
- Support and recommend appropriate practice relevant to the discipline, study stage and mode and digital and physical affordances of the learning environment
- Evaluate and implement educational technologies and innovations for teaching and learning
- Develop professional learning activities and support for teaching teams to enhance their practice
- Enable learning environments that promote active and collaborative learning opportunities among learners, teachers and communities
A3 Assess and give feedback
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: authentic, feedback-focused, course-wide
- Evaluate and implement educational technologies and innovations for assessment and feedback in collaboration with teaching teams
- Develop professional learning activities and support for teaching teams to enhance their assessment and feedback practices
A4 Support and guide learners
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic, integrated
- Design and develop learning resources that incorporate academic and other learner support
- Build staff awareness in resources, services and approaches to learner support
A5 Enhance practice through professional development
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: scholarship
- Engage with others’ or own research to inform practice
- Evaluate practice and innovations through evidence and evaluation frameworks
- Contribute to professional bodies and communities of practice in teaching and learning
- Engage in relevant professional learning activities
- Reflect and develop own teaching philosophy
