Innovations and Innovators in Education

Unit code: EED6111 | Study level: Postgraduate
Credit points
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Location
Footscray Park
Online Real Time
Online Self-Paced
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit focuses on innovation and planned change at individual, enterprise and societal levels with a specific emphasis on education in various learning settings, including the workplace and community. It examines values underlying particular innovations and models and strategies for developing, promoting, disseminating and implementing change and factors affecting adoption and institutionalisation. The unit includes: the purposes and goals of innovation; theories that inform innovations; value foundations of innovation, change and innovation at individual, local, organisational and global levels; strategies for developing innovative education and training practices; professional development models for transformation; strategies for developing communities of inquiry and professional learning teams; case studies of innovation in community learning settings, workplaces and educational and training institutions.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Analyse the historical, social, political and economic factors influencing innovation in a range of cultural contexts;
  2. Relate learning theories, principles and practices to innovation;
  3. Identify and critique the values informing innovation;
  4. Analyse and compare models of innovation;
  5. Propose innovation that is flexible and responsive to the experiences of learners;

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Assignment
|
Grade: 30%
Individual mind map identifying and contextualising an issue in response to a scenario.
Assessment type: Report
|
Grade: 50%
Part A : Report on a simulation (25%) Part B: A Briefing Paper addressed to a stakeholder (25%)
Assessment type: Presentation
|
Grade: 20%
Oral presentation of a critical analysis of an innovation in a specific educational or organisational setting

Required reading

Required texts will be available on VU Collaborate.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Graduate Certificate in Education
ETED | Graduate certificate | Duration: 0.5 years
Graduate Diploma in Education
EGED | Graduate diploma | Duration: 1 year
Master of Education
EMED | Masters (coursework) degree | Duration: 2 years

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