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CED Learn: Students' writing

Welcome to this self-paced course on how to support students' writing

This online course will explain why students might find academic writing difficult, how academic writing is part of academic knowledge production, and more.

Course overview

In this course you will learn about:

  • Why do students find writing difficult?
  • Writing as knowledge production
  • Students' writing process

Learning outcomes

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • develop writing activities as a tool for learning the content of the discipline
  • develop feedback strategies to support students' disciplinary writing
  • use their own (tacit) knowledge about academic writing in their discipline when they teach or supervise students 

Enrolment

The course can be completed in Brightspace at your own pace.

Click on the 'Content' menu item to access the course content.

Info

  • Format: Self-paced online course
  • Duration: 6-7 hours
  • Activities: Reading, Mentimeter assignment, TaskCards, Final quiz
  • Course certificate: The certificate is issued once participants have gone through all modules and made an attempt to take the quiz
  • Target group: Teachers at AU working with students' writing
  • Language: English

Course manager

Emil Lohse

Pedagogics Consultant