Postgraduate - UnitHED5031 - Higher education project: design and literature review

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Malaysia First semester (extended) 2014 (Flexible) Malaysia Second semester (extended) 2014 (Flexible)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Angela Carbone

Synopsis

The higher education project units are designed to bring about an increased awareness in teaching practice and improve student learning. In this unit students choose any area of teaching and learning in higher education and design a negotiated project that will enable them to investigate and improve their own teaching practice. Having successfully completed this unit students can choose to conduct the project to fulfil the requirements of the subsequent unit HED5032 Higher education project: data gathering and analysis.

Outcomes

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

negotiate and plan a project that is designed to bring about increased awareness in teaching practice and improve student learning
evaluate developments from both pedagogy and discipline-based research that are relevant to their personal teaching practice
identify suitable pedagogical research methodologies.

Assessment

Project proposal and literature review (minimum 4000 words, 100%)

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Angela Carbone

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours:

2 contact hours per week (face-to-face and/or online)

(b.) Additional requirements

10 hours independent study per week including literature search and review time, reading and private study time and completion of assessment activities

Prerequisites

First degree or equivalent