Checklist

The following table summarises the main ideas/prompts that the book offers in its five sections. It can be used as a ‘checklist’ not as a tick box exercise but as an aide-memoir.

It can also be a reflection and discussion prompt to: (1) design and (2) review and evaluate a module/course.

Phase

Item

Prompts

Notes

1

Values

 

Main questions:

 

Which values inform your (inclusive) design and practices?

Intentionally Equitable

How can you show your students intentionally equitable hospitality?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Nurturing

How can you help your students ‘grow and glow’ in a more holistic way?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Co-created

How can students become partners in your learning design? When?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Liberating

How can you practically start to diversify your course input and aim for a civic curriculum?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

User-friendly

How can Universal Design for Learning help you remove barriers to engagement?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Socially responsible

How can the learning you design have social value?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Integrative

How can you design learning which is bounded with research and connects with other disciplines?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Values-based

How can you support students identify and interrogate their drivers?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Ecological

How can your learning design support the ‘Sustainable Development Goals’?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

2

Context

 

Main question:


Which contextual factors inform your (inclusive) learning design and practices?

Setting up the physical and digital space

How can you leverage the affordances of the physical and digital learning spaces at your disposal?

 

What will be the balance of synchronous vs asynchronous (including mobile) learning?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Needs analysis and orientation

How can you find out who your students are and what needs they have?

 

What ‘orientation’ can you set up to help your students transition and settle in your course?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Building community and fostering a support culture

How will students know that they matter?

 

Which community building activities can you plan for the start of your course?

 

How can you foster a (peer) support culture in your cohort(s)?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

3

Content

 

Main question:

How can you provide input and practice in a more inclusive way?

 

Using learning thresholds

What big ideas and thresholds (which inform expected learning outcomes) will your students likely encounter on your course?

 

How can you design (more) inclusive learning/practice activities?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Flipped and self-directed

How can you maximise pre-lesson asynchronous input?

 

What independent learning do you expect on the course?

 

How can you support students’ autonomy on your course?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Diversified, relevant and creative

How can your course input be more:

-diversified

-relevant

-creative?

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

4

Assessment

 

Main question:
How can you design more inclusive assessment outputs and feedback?

Choice, voice and authentic

How can you design more ‘authentic’ outputs which give students voice and choice?

 

What final output would support relevant and authentic learning?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Reflective and formative

How can the assessment regime be more formative?

 

How can you promote learning reflection during and at the end of the course?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

Self and peer assessment and feedback

What opportunities can you build in for self and peer assessment?

 

When, how and by whom will participants receive feedback on their learning?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

5

Evaluation

 

How will you evaluate your efforts to design more inclusive learning?

At lesson level

How and when will you evaluate the effectiveness of your learning design and implementation?

 

How will you gather feedback from participants?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions

 

At module /course level

How and when will you evaluate the effectiveness of your learning design and implementation?

 

Which mechanism can you put in place to check the quality of the student experience to inform future iterations of the course?

 

Opportunities

 

Challenges

 

Solutions