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Educational Design

Programme and course design grounded in evidence, not in habit.

Overview

Educational design at the programme level is where the most expensive structural mistakes are made. A misaligned programme produces years of remediation downstream: redundant assessment, unmapped graduate attributes, and units that quietly fail to deliver on the course-level outcomes they advertise.

Poios supports educational designers with a structured workspace for programme architecture: course-level outcomes, graduate attribute mapping, unit sequencing, and threshold concept progression. Every design decision is recorded against the evidence base it draws on, whether that is the Biggs and Tang constructive alignment framework, the Fink taxonomy of significant learning, or institution-specific graduate attribute statements.

The output is a programme map that is reviewable, modifiable, and exportable to the formats your accreditation body requires.

Capabilities

What this service provides

Constructive alignment

Outcomes, activities, and assessment kept in explicit alignment from first draft.

Programme mapping

Visual unit-to-outcome and unit-to-graduate-attribute maps with gap detection.

Threshold concepts

Progression of threshold concepts tracked across the unit sequence.

Evidence anchoring

Design decisions tagged with the framework or evidence base they draw on.

Aligned to

Standards and frameworks

This service is engineered to satisfy specific Australian higher education regulatory and academic standards.

  • HES Framework Standard 3.1
  • AQF qualification type descriptors
  • Biggs & Tang constructive alignment framework

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