PROJECT SUMMARY
AULA Education is a UK based ed tech company revolutionizing higher education with a transformed learning experience platform. Aula engaged an international design team to support faculty as they transition content using evidence-based high-impact educational practices.
ROLE: Freelance senior learning designer, faculty instructional support. Consultant to re-design of faculty-learning designer collaboration model.
AUDIENCE: Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Faculty
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY: Using high-impact, HyFlex educational models, improved active, social and applied learning strategies to enhance student engagement, motivation and success. Revised and added new lesson plans (recommending best use of synch and async instructional time) for over forty individual, twelve-week academic courses (undergraduate and graduate level). Revised existing and added new learning activities (deliberate practice, elaborative questions, concrete examples, stretch questions) and redesigned live sessions to ensure mastery of weekly content.
CONTENT: Redesigned content for a wide range of academic subjects including:
Management, Banking Regulation and Risk
Business, Advanced Management Accounting
Business, Problem Solving for Managers
Business, Supply Chain Management
Electrical Engineering, Control and Instrumentation
Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
International Studies, Global Perspectives
Automotive Design, Concept Creation
Automotive Design, Form Design
Automotive Design, Drawing & Visualization
Illustration and Graphics Exploration
Psychology, Model Specific Therapies
Research Methods
Midwifery
Biology, Life Science
Architecture: Design for Living
IMPACT: As a team we transformed over 1,000 courses in only three months and continue to re-design and coach faculty at a wide variety of institutions as Aula enters the American market. Redesign of collaborative model resulted in significant savings to Aula and improved faculty experience.
TESTIMONIAL:
AULA was a mystery to me till I was connected with Elizabeth. I never expected to think, analyse and evaluate teaching online in the manner I did after just one discussion with her. She is so simple and elegant as a professional to work with and I came away quite inspired about online teaching and learning after working together with her. Within the bounds of a tough brief she literally opened my eyes to the unique opportunity which online platform for teaching offers us, even with challenging tasks as teaching vehicle drawing design and proportions.
She has me inspired for life about teaching and the impact of teaching design.
If you are looking for a genuine, insightful, empathetic yet logical approach to learning/teaching, there is no doubt that Elizabeth is the person to work with... for the future of learning lies in precisely this direction.
-Sanghamitra Data, Coventry University, Managing Director, Stylus Automotive PVT.LTD.
Comments from the quality assurance team on overall design and learning activities:
"Superb wire framing overall, with activities that address key concepts in a direct, engaging and challenging way. It also consistently invites students to look back and evaluate their progress over the course of the module."
"Excellent application of mastery activities combining practical & theoretical aspects for learning outcomes."
"You have wonderful stretch questions that really supported subject mastery! You gave good context, challenged students to apply higher-level critical thinking skills (such as evaluation), and your questions certainly don’t have a tone like they were just yanked from a textbook. These are the kind of stretch questions I’d love to see in every wireframe! Great job!"
"The platform integrates really thoughtfully, the opportunities for sharing, communicating and developing an engaging social community to enhance learning opportunities. The case study and group presentations are very well structured and the questions asked will encourage students to connect with others and with their educator leading to higher engagement and participation rates. QA benchmark exceeded!"