Graduate learning outcomes
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:49 am
As a teacher and teacher educator, I know that teachers planning their teaching have intended learning outcomes in mind, which are aligned with the learning outcomes of their modules, courses and institutions. To ensure that GenAI is used to build educational experiences, it could be helpful to start from the institutional graduate learning outcomes, that is the expectations of how graduates will think and behave as citizens and professionals. Only after having defined the learning outcomes we want to achieve, can we start planning the role that GenAI will play with the student.
Attributes consist of knowledge, values, attitudes and skills that students develop during their studies. Wong et al. (2021) examined graduate attributes as they are defined by UK universities and identified four discourses framing graduate attributes: self-awareness and life-long learning; employability; citizenship; and academic vietnam consumer email list research literacy. These discourses include a variety of graduate learning outcomes that are pedagogically sound, well defined, specific and measurable. Using graduate learning outcomes as educational objectives to frame GenAI-based activities, instead of limiting ourselves to deciding the role GenAI should play in teaching activities, could enhance the educational value of GenAI and enable teachers to use it purposefully to support students’ authentic learning experience.
Attributes consist of knowledge, values, attitudes and skills that students develop during their studies. Wong et al. (2021) examined graduate attributes as they are defined by UK universities and identified four discourses framing graduate attributes: self-awareness and life-long learning; employability; citizenship; and academic vietnam consumer email list research literacy. These discourses include a variety of graduate learning outcomes that are pedagogically sound, well defined, specific and measurable. Using graduate learning outcomes as educational objectives to frame GenAI-based activities, instead of limiting ourselves to deciding the role GenAI should play in teaching activities, could enhance the educational value of GenAI and enable teachers to use it purposefully to support students’ authentic learning experience.