Presenters: Patrick Lynch and Sue Watling, Learning and Teaching Enhancement Directorate

Design 4 Active Learning (D4AL) is a pedagogic approach to the enhancement of teaching and learning. It offers a toolbox of evidence-informed T&L designs and activities which is aligned to UoH Education Plan themes and UK HEA PSF. A D4AL session is applicable to all teaching e.g. programmes, modules, single activities etc., all modes of delivery e.g. blended, work based, distant etc., and all stages e.g. new programme approval, review, revalidation etc. The D4AL focus is on context not content, and constructing knowledge through active student centred learning activities D4AL is customisable to suit requirements. On the one hand, it is a social constructivist approach informed by social learning theory (e.g. Lave and Wenger's Communities of Practice, Garrison and Anderson's Communities of Inquiry, and Laurillard's Conversational Framework), while on the other, it can be an opportunity for teaching teams to get together and discuss ways to take their modules and programmes forward. This session introduces the D4AL structure and invites questions on how it might work within individual practice.

The event will be of interest to all staff who teach and support learning.

Participants will take away a structure for revisiting, reviewing and restructuring an activty, module or programme.

The main themes of the Education Strategy this event responds to are:

• Teaching excellence
• Student Engagement
• Learning Environment
• Curriculum Design
• Student Employability