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HED5044

Faculty of Business and Economics

18 September 2017 31 December 2024

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Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Business and Economics

Coordinator(s)

Ms Nell Kimberley

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

Enthusiastic and engaged teachers continually evaluate and modify aspects of their units in an effort to enhance student learning. This unit affords participants the opportunity to explore and improve their teaching practices by adopting an action learning model. Focusing on teaching and learning issues arising from HED5043 Contemporary issues in business education, participants will be required to apply a teaching intervention (or interventions) to their curricula (for example a technological intervention arising from Module 5) and to critically evaluate its effectiveness, and to instigate further changes and evaluation.

Outcomes

The learning objectives associated with this unit are to:

  1. apply an action learning model to enhance teaching practice
  2. identify, justify and implement an appropriate teaching or learning intervention/s
  3. use appropriate methods of evaluation of a teaching or learning intervention/s
  4. reflect critically on the teaching intervention/s using the education literature
  5. identify areas of teaching or learning that require improvement
  6. critically reflect on the findings in relation to the intervention/s and devise a plan for further improvement.

Assessment

Within Semester Assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Prerequisites

Students must be enrolled in Graduate Certificate in Higher Education to undertake this unit.