This module has eight online courses that are designed to provide all levels of teaching faculty with the skills they need to effectively plan and deliver compelling courses. The program can support university teaching staff throughout their careers and includes assignments that can contribute towards a teaching portfolio.

The module carries a course on “Understanding the Principles of Course Design” that is in keeping with Bloom’s Taxonomy, please note that we at FCCU strongly encourage our faculty to follow Dee Fink’s Taxonomy for Designing Courses.


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Course 8: Supervising projects and dissertations

This course is intended for faculty that is either new or relatively new to supervising substantial student projects or dissertations at either undergraduate or graduate level. It may also be of interest as a refresher for those who have been supervising for a number of years.

Course 7: Resources to enhance student learning

This Course takes a step-by-step approach to the process of finding, choosing, creating and using resources – and then evaluating their effectiveness. It covers the full range of resource types – from textbooks to podcasts.

Course 6: Making the most of discussion

This Course offers tips and strategies which will help teaching staff to prepare, lead, evaluate and improve discussion experiences, whatever the size and nature of the course being delivered. It includes areas such as building a good rapport with students, whether/how to grade discussion, using technology, keeping discussions going and fielding questions.

Course 5: Marking and giving feedback

This Course is designed to give practical advice on marking students’ work consistently, reliably and efficiently, and giving them effective feedback. It covers areas such as creating rubrics in line with learning outcomes, dealing with problems including plagiarism, delivering feedback (including use of new technologies) and peer-to-peer feedback.

Course 3: Lecturing 2

This course looks at a range of ways to deliver your lectures effectively, to ensure that students are engaged and supported. It will also offer options to faculty to handle problems and unpleasant incidents.

Course 2: Lecturing 1

This course will address issues such as anxiety – but its main focus reaches beyond pure survival and into the crucial question of how to ensure that students actually learn something from lectures – and the answer does not involve talking all the time! The aim is to provide useful guidance for the ‘new lecturer’ and a refresher for more experienced lecturers who would like to build their confidence, solve problems and improve their students’ learning and satisfaction.

Course 1: Understanding the Principles of Course Design

This course is intended to be of use to anyone new to teaching in higher education. Whether or not you are involved in building courses, it is important to learn the principles of good course design and how to apply them in order to maximize the chance that the students you teach will have a positive learning experience.

Course 4: Developing your Teaching

This course focuses on your professional growth in teaching. It is based on the premise that you can stay vital in teaching by continuously reflecting on your teaching practice and, through this process, develop new teaching skills and approaches.