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Independent Professional Project

Unit Code: LTS504




Duration

Contact Hours

Campus

Prerequisite

Corequisite

One teaching period

3 x 3 hour workshops and online study activities

Hawthorn, Online, Sarawak

LTS501 The Practice of Learning and Teaching, LTS503 Curriculum Design and Assessment, and either LTS502 Learning and Teaching with Educational Technologies or LTS505 Internationalisation of the Curriculum

Nil

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching (Higher Education)

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Aims & Objectives:

Aims
This unit aims to provide an extended learning opportunity through independent in-depth study of an area of pertinence to participants’ teaching practice. Participants will identify a significant project of interest and continue to extend their personal teaching portfolio.

Objectives
After successfully completing this unit participants should be able to:
  • Negotiate and prepare a learning contract for a significant project related to teaching practice
  • Identify and critically review relevant literature and practices to inform project development
  • Carry out the contracted learning objectives, satisfying learning requirements negotiated with a supervisor
  • Complete and present a project report elaborating the results of their project
  • Reflect, evaluate and articulate evidence based changes and improvements to teaching scholarship

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Teaching Methods:

Supervise the drafting and use of a learning contract relating to the program participants’ teaching.

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Assessment:

  • Learning contract - 30%
  • Project documentation and outcomes reflecting scholarship of learning and teaching - 50%
  • Project presentation at a colloquium - 20%

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Content:

By negotiation, depending on the area to be pursued in the project. Participants are expected to identify and gather materials relevant to their area of interest.

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Reading Materials:

Anderson, G. Boud, D & Sampson, J. (1996) Learning Contracts: A Practical Guide, Kogan Page, London.
Bell, J (1999) Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-time Researchers in Education and Social Science, 3rd edn, Open University Press, Buckingham.
Boyer, E. (1990) Scholarship Reconsidered, Priorities of the Professoriate (Special Report), Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ.
Coaldrake, P. (2000) 'Rethinking University Work', Research and Development in Higher Education, 22, 12-22.
Cowan, J. (1998) On Becoming an Innovative University Teacher: Reflection in Action, The Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, Buckingham.
Fraser, K. (2005) Educational Development and Leadership in Higher Education, RoutledgeFalmer, London.
Fry, H., Ketteridge, S. & Marshall, S. (1999) A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Enhancing Academic Practice, Kogan Page, London.

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