MBO5010 · Currency and lifelong learning

Overview

The 4th Industrial revolution is generating new ways to access, interrogate and learn from vast quantities of information and data. Digital advances continue to provide new devices, new platforms, and new applications on a daily basis. To keep pace with an increasingly digital and dynamic environment, professionals need to understand and follow specific methods that develop their digital intelligence, enhance their currency and support lifelong learning. Developing your growth mindset, you will explore, experiment, and advance your professional practice. This unit examines practical strategies and develops skills for accessing, evaluating, and using information, data, intelligence and insights to help you establish and maintain currency, relevance and a capacity to realise and add value.

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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. demonstrate an understanding and application of methods, strategies, tactics and tools for developing and maintaining currency in an increasingly digital and dynamic environment
2. demonstrate ability to direct one's professional development through self-evaluation and the setting of realistic plans for maintaining currency and engaging lifelong learning.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 150 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. You are expected to complete all pre-class activities prior to your scheduled class, and post-class activities should be completed after your scheduled class. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed, peer directed and online engagement activities.

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