After 13 years solo-teaching the course Planetology – an introduction, and in the light of the BSc renewal, the course needs a severe update. A wide range of teaching and assessment activities have been tried, but these need to be streamlined into one big assignment/assessment activity with its own rubric. Prefereably more blended learningis incorporated into the course, so the contact hours can be more interactively spent, instead of lecturing of the students. The course has always been a bit stand-alone from the curriculum, which allowed a broad range of students to follow it, but it needs better connections with the rest of the curriculum in the renewal.

Background

In its current shape the course is not well connected to the rest of the BSc curriculum and an amalgamation of ideas that work, but need to be further developed and integrated, including digital fieldwork on other planets and writing a fieldwork report, writing a mission proposal and orally pitching that mission, analysing meteorites from the collection, and designing an exoplanet and present that in a poster. An attempt has been made to incorporate blended
learning.

Aim

The aim is to connect the course to the rest of the BSc curriculum and to develop and integrate an amalgamation of ideas.

Project description

In its current shape the course is not well connected to the rest of the BSc curriculum and an amalgamation of ideas that work, but need to be further developed and integrated, including digital fieldwork on other planets and writing a fieldwork report, writing a mission proposal and orally pitching that mission, analysing meteorites from the collection, and designing an exoplanet and present that in a poster. An attempt has been made to incorporate blended learning.

Results

An interdisciplinary course that can be followed by students from all Earth sciences bachelor tracks, but also by students from other programmes, and that incorporates the relevant knowledge of each of the tracks in the course. The students will be immersed in the course through a period long project with different assessment projects at several intervals. For this project, a new rubric needs to be built that combines existing rubrics on the different forms of assessment and on group work.