2022 Course Design Institute Application

2025 Course Design Institute Application

CDI in 2025:

> Mid Semester 2 break (1-5 September) - Application Deadline 22 August 2025

This 5 day intensive program will provide participants with the skills, knowledge, and support necessary to design significant learning experiences and foster a learner-centred environment.

Participants will leave the institute with at least one developed learning unit, complete with learning outcomes, assessment, activities and resources – as well as a reworked course outline and a plan for the rest of the course.

Course convenors who are interested in (re)designing a course and who are open to learner-centred approaches to course design are invited to apply. You may attend the CDI with a colleague to collaborate on your course design.

Up to 30 participants will be accepted to each instance of this program. Participants will need to be available every day from 9:30am to 4:30pm. The CDI will be offered in Canberra. Location TBC.

Please fill in your personal information below. Note. We will send all communications to your UNSW email so please activate your zmail and/or set up email forwarding.

Given name

Preferred given name (to appear on name tag etc)

Surname

zID

UNSW email address

Your School

How many years have you been teaching?

Are you designing a new course or re-designing an existing course?

Redesigning existing course
Designing new course

Course you want to (re)design. Please include Course Code and Course Name

If this course has run before, what's the typical enrolment?

When do you expect to first teach this course after its redesign?

Is this course team-taught or solo taught?

Solo
Team

At the CDI will you be working on the (re)design alone or with colleagues?

Solo design
Collaborative design

If collaborating, please list any collaborators who will be working with you at the Institute.

Note: your collaborator will need to submit their own application

What do you want to achieve for your course through this institute? e.g. what existing issues do you want to address?

What do you personally hope to achieve as a result of this experience?

Briefly describe your philosophy on teaching and learning, with emphasis on where you hope to grow or develop:

If accepted, can you commit to attending the institute from 9:30am to 4:30pm EVERY DAY during the week of the CDI?

We will ask your Head of School to release you from any other commitments that week and we ask that you reschedule any meetings or appointments so you can be present throughout the program.

Yes
No

If you cannot attend all days but would still like to be considered, please provide the reason you cannot commit to the whole institute and which day(s) you will be unable to attend.

The program is carefully designed and very full, but depending on when and how much time you would be absent, we will see if there is a way to accommodate you.

Please indicate any special accommodations you require (Dietary, accessibility, cultural/religious etc.)

Any other comments for the organisers?