Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Unit

Synopsis

The purpose of this unit is to provide students with a framework to understand and experience the incredible potential of living and learning in a global community that this program offers. The innovative nature of this cohort-based program, with units being taught in four different countries and universities, will make certain demands on students will as they encounter the diverse realities of other students' geographic locations. Through this unit, students will be introduced to the different ways in which globalisation manifests in people's lives, and how the learning devices and technologies they will use will aid them in interacting with other students.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

• interact freely and confidently, though asynchronously, with others from different contexts and cultures in an academic setting;
• develop a personal learning profile which represents their entering achievements and characteristics;
• develop an overall learning plan for the program based on self-assessment of their needs and opportunities;
• record and reflect on their experiences in an intercontinental program and identify the implications of global change for their work in supporting learning in their own context.

Assessment

(i) Development of a personal learning portfolio and profile (20%); (ii) a learning plan which will guide your choice of activities in the rest of the program (20%); (iii) A continuing portfolio or record of learning and your reflections on their experience. This builds upon the groundwork completed in the first assessment task where you establish your learning portfolio (20%); (iv) The development of a capstone statement demonstrating how you have met the capabilities of the program. This is completed at the end of the Masters program (30%); and (v) Participation in group discussion (10%).

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Terri Seddon

Prerequisites

None