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Do you currently teach a course you would like to revamp or improve? This workshop will give you practical ways to enhance your course through curriculum (re)design, adding multimedia and interactive elements, and developing authentic assessments. You will develop curriculum outputs to use in your course. Outputs may include a curriculum course map, module outline, student guide, assessment instruments and tools, multimedia, etc.
Date: 10 14 May 2021
Time: 09:00 – 14:00
Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)
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Cathryn MacCallum
Cathryn MacCallum began her career in development as a cheese-maker on a coconut plantation in Tanzania. Passionate about rural development (North and South) she became involved in the development education movement. She has more than 20 years experience of working as a research and programme manager in international development and development education, she has co-written a number of textbooks aimed at secondary school students on learning for sustainable living for the Zanzibar Government and Welsh Curriculum.
She is currently a Director of Sazani Associates, a small international NGO based in Wales (with offices in Zanzibar and Belize) that supports sustainable livelihoods through participatory approaches to rural development. In 2009 she was put on the WGgreen list for her work in international sustainable development and sits on the UNESCO UK Committee. She also lectures on an MA in Development Education at the Institute of Education where her doctoral rese
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