Block Design Principles

This unit develops your capacity to design curriculum aligned to institutional requirements within an immersive, one unit at a time learning environment. It strengthens your ability to make intentional, evidence informed decisions about how learning is structured, scaffolded and experienced. Through engagement with evidence informed curriculum design frameworks, you learn to design units that are coherent, immersive and learner centred, with clear alignment between learning outcomes, assessment, learning activities and feedback. Alignment to institutional principles is critical, as immersive block learning amplifies the impact of curriculum design on student engagement, wellbeing, belonging and success. By developing your ability to justify and articulate design choices in relation to these requirements, the unit supports consistent, high quality delivery and ensures curriculum design actively promotes deep learning, inclusion and positive learner experiences.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Formulate and justify curriculum design decisions for a higher education unit using scholarly and practice-based evidence, demonstrating the application of Block principles and evidence-informed curriculum design frameworks in the planning process;
2. Design and justify an integrated Block-based unit structure that applies evidence-informed pedagogical frameworks and digital pedagogies to support inclusive, engaging, and effective learning;
3. Articulate coherent alignment between learning outcomes, assessment, learning activities, and learner context in the design of a Block-based unit, explaining how scaffolding and feedback support learner progression;