Chapter 2 Physical Teaching Arrangements

Introduction

This course is designed for blended learning. It includes some online video material for flipped classroom teaching in some weeks. This course is designed to be delivered with physical teaching arrangements for 2021/22. In the event of having to switch to fully online learning, we’ll work in the way described in the next chapter. This is the guide for preparing for physical teaching sessions.

2.1 Course Structure & Delivery

There are four types of activity on this course:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Projects
• Assessments

Lectures are a mix of lecture, small-group discussions, whole class discussions, and Q&A. Seminars are a mix of small-group discussions and whole class discussions. Projects are a mix of individual and group tasks that are designed to develop practical research skills. You have two marked assessments in the course, a literature review, and a review essay.

The blended version of this course combines online lecture material and in person lecture sessions and seminars. In the event of the course being switched to online-only delivery for any period of time, both classes of students will take the online version of the course for the duration of the switch.

2.2 Blended Learning

Lectures

There will be a mix of normal lectures and flipped classroom lectures, as indicated by the course outline.

In both cases, lectures are lecture/seminar sessions. That means that you will be engaging in small group discussion at points throughout the teaching session. You will be discussing questions in small groups (3-5 students), and recording key points on Padlet. I will call on groups to explain their agreement, or disagreement, over the answer to the question in a whole-class discussion after each small group discussion. I ask that a different person explains their group’s discussion each time, so that this task does not fall on one person’s shoulders.

Normal lectures are just what it says on the tin: a lecture where you turn up (having done the reading) and engage as above. There may be short (10 minute) videos accompanying some normal lectures, these are outlined in the week-by-week guide.

Flipped classroom lectures require you to view roughly 1 hour’s worth of pre-recorded lecture material online prior to attending the lecture. The lecture session focuses upon applying these concepts to a case study, but otherwise runs as a normal lecture.

Seminars

Seminars run as small group discussions, leading to a class discussion. There are two questions each week. One is about the readings, the second is designed to connect the theory discussions to a case study. Again, please read the questions ahead of the session and consider your answer to them prior to the class.

If you are a remote student attending via Hyflex, these arrangements will be discussed in the first lecture.