[Sophie McKenzie]

I am very interested to participate in a conversation about course cohesion, and look at how ‘My Course Map’ works. At my institution, we have explored ways in which to provide students with information about their course in IT (information such as: learning outcomes and graduate attributes), however struggle to do this in a wide-spread way. Constructing course maps that demonstrate paths for employability would be really useful for us, and it would help students to appreciate job roles and the application of skills learnt. Look forward to hearing more!

[Sophie McKenzie]

Hi Margaret, Thank you for your discussion on course cohesion as a part of development employability website. Having just joined the website I have been reviewing and reading all the information with interest. I have downloaded all the resources as linked in your forum posts, and look forward to reviewing them. Thank you!
As a young academic, and newly appointed course director (for courses within Information Technology) critically thinking about courses and how to offer a connected, transparent, authentic and meaningful set of learning experiences is strongly on my radar. I am a believer in course cohesion, using learning outcomes, authentic assessment and experiential learning as a guide. Employability it naturally on the radar at my institution, and within my school WIL is a central component of this. I hadn’t thought critically about how WIL and employability could be a tool to drive course cohesion. So thank you for this! I will most certainty be using your advice is this forum as a tool to guide my teaching and practice. My research interests are in career development learning (CDL), supporting students to achieve their career aspirations via higher education. I could see that embedding CDL could be another driver for course cohension, or rather a tool for helping students to actualise their future self….Something for me to think about :).

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