Making changes to assessments can be challenging, whether it’s a unit you’ve taught many times or your first time teaching it. Educational practices thrive on dialogue and community, and the most impactful changes often happen through collaboration with other educators. This is why the Educational Design Accelerator (EDA) is a great opportunity to tweak your assessments in conversation and partnership with our team.
What is the Educational Design Accelerator (EDA)?
The EDA is a partnership between unit coordinators and teaching teams, our team at Educational Innovation plus student partners to assist you in adapting your assessments to the new Assessment Framework. Whether you’re thinking about creating or improving a rubric, making your assessment more inclusive, developing guidelines for use of AI in written tasks or improving the clarity of your instructions to better support your students, the EDA is designed to foster innovation and collaboration, and save you time.
Every learning environment is different, to accommodate this our approach is highly personalised, focused on understanding your unique context and your students’ needs. Unlike quick consultations, the EDA offers a deeper, more collaborative process. Over a few weeks, we’ll work together to find practical, sustainable solutions that are student-centred and ready for implementation. Our student partners can assist with a valuable student lens on what might work best for them.
Why is the EDA a Game-Changer for Your Students?
Designing for Diversity from the start: We believe every student should have an equal opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background, abilities, or learning preferences. By incorporating designing for diversity into every phase of the EDA, we help you create assessments that are flexible and accessible for all. Inclusive design can help to reduce the need for Special Consideration and/or academic adjustments. This means assessments and activities that reflect the diverse ways students learn and express their understanding, moving away from a one-size-fits-all model.
Tell me more
Apply through the Educational Design Accelerator request form or contact Dr Alix Thoeming.
Read about other colleagues’ experiences with Educational Design Accelerator projects
- Rethinking assessment design one small step as a time
- Making groupwork relevant, meaningful and accessible – Universal Design for Learning in practice
- Making groupwork meaningful and authentic – Assessment for learning in High Performance in Sport
- Innovation through educational design collaboration
