units

EDF5660

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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Monash University

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Education

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

This unit involves identifying, investigating, improving and reporting on a learning dimension of students' work. The starting point is on student identity as a learning practitioner; that is, a person whose work focuses on learning in organisational settings, in local communities and/or in educational institutions. It builds on the current attention given to learning that occurs in everyday work practices as well as in formal educational settings. Several perspectives of learning are explored, all of which emphasise the importance of the learners' personal, theoretical and cultural locations.

Outcomes

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

  1. understand and foster the learning dimension of work
  2. reflect on and describe their identity as learner practitioners and the way this identity is constructed through a number of local and global conditions
  3. interpret and evaluate various conceptual perspectives on learning in practice that apply to, and which may, influence their work
  4. generate a critical analysis of their work and workplace based on conceptual perspectives.

Assessment

Online participation (800 words equivalent, 10%)
Case study report stage 1: critical assessment of identity as a learning and development practitioner (3200 words equivalent, 40%)
Case study report stage 2: discussion paper on the various conceptual understandings of learning in practice (4000 words equivalent, 50%)

Workload requirements

Flexible mode offers a stand-alone online offering that allows students to learn and engage in content and assessment in a supported way. It also provides a face-to-face component of 12 hours over the semester to engage students with the online learning content, which students can attend if they are able and interested.

Minimum total expected workload equals 288 hours per semester comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for flexible students:

  • 12 contact hours and 24 hours equivalent of online activities over the semester or
  • 36 hours equivalent of online activities over the semester

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • independent study to meet the minimum required hours per semester

See also Unit timetable information

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Adult learning
Digital learning
Educational leadership and policy
General education studies

Prohibitions

EDF6863