EDF2405 · Industry engagement: Part 1

Overview

This unit provides you with the opportunity to employ the knowledge and skills from previous units in an authentic context. You will be supported to find a learning design mentor who you will observe and interview over a period of time. A key focus for this industry engagement is the personal and interpersonal skills required to manage tasks and to work productively with others. Learning designers commonly work in teams made up of other designers as well as media, marketing, technology and other specialists. As a learning designer, you, will need to be able to develop productive and trusting relationships with content experts and, in many cases, with the educators and trainers who are directly interacting with the learners. This unit provides an opportunity for you to develop the interpersonal skills and strategies that learning designers need to succeed. In addition to a period of industry engagement, the unit will explore team dynamics, conflict resolution, managing expectations, clarifying tasks, running design meetings, and influencing without power. You will develop skills in workshopping ideas with others, as well as interviewing stakeholders, such as content experts, to elicit key details.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. effectively communicate and collaborate with learning designers in a collegial and professional manner
2. identify key relationship-building and team management skills, including conflict resolution
3. analyse the components and processes of effective project management and design life cycles
4. demonstrate the ability to elicit key information from others such as learning designers, subject matter experts, and specialists using interview and discussion skills.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. In this unit you will engage in: • 16 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; • professional fieldwork of 15 days (105 hrs); and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.