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This microcredential engages you in a range of design provocations from different fields and stakeholders to explore design methods, futures thinking approaches and prototyping techniques. You will critically examine and trial these design ideas while creating a series of learning prototypes.
You will then develop prototypes of a learning experience, workshop or program. Using a practice-based prototype and after putting forward an initiative proposal, you will explore how a small-scale, safe-to-fail experiment could both be tested in your professional practice and insights gained as a result. In that process, you will generate parameters and principles shaping the design of your initiative.
Using your initiative proposal, you question how to gauge a design’s success and shape future design iterations. You will also explore how these insights about designing for learning enable further collaboration within your team or organisation and generate new inquiry questions.
With its focus on learning-integrated work, this practice-based microcredential supports participants to trial design ideas, methods, techniques and strategies within their own professional setting or other situation.
This microcredential has been designed to:
By doing this microcredential, you will develop design skills needed to lead the development of new learning initiatives.
This microcredential aligns with the 3-credit point subject, Design Provocations and Transdisciplinary Prototyping (94752) in the Graduate Certificate in Transdisciplinary Learning and Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation.
The learning outcomes of this microcredential align with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers career stages 1.5.2, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 3.4.2 and 3.4.3 for Proficient Teacher and Highly Accomplished Teachers. For more details, please read the Professional recognition section under Additional course information.
This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions.
Participants who would benefit from this microcredential come from a wide variety of professional backgrounds, including:
Full price: $1,500 (GST-free)*
*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase.
Discounts are available for this course. For further details and to verify if you qualify, please check the Discounts section under Additional course information.
COVID-19 response
Over five weeks, participants will engage in activities and experiences that interface with their professional settings or future-oriented aspirations. As well as interacting in design activities and sharing across professions during the weekly online Zoom sessions, you will be encouraged to explore and trial design practices, perspectives, approaches and techniques imaginatively with work colleagues or people in your life.
Areas of exploration in this course include:
Please contact us at td.learning@uts.edu.au if you have any questions about the course content, delivery or requirements.
Course Delivery:
This course is designed to provide you with self-paced, creative, online experiences that engage you with key ideas and practices associated with designing and prototyping, using transdisciplinary provocations to spark imaginative possibilities.
Participants will explore design methods, approaches, perspectives and knowledge from different fields and trial them in their professional practice or in other situations. The relevance and worth of these ideas will be tested, and participants will be tasked with generating a design proposal to enact in their professional setting. The weekly Zoom sessions provide you with rich opportunities to also learn from other people from different professional backgrounds.
The learning and assessments are personalised to be directly related to participant’s practical on-the-job and day-to-day experiences. As part of the assessment process, participants are mentored individually, enabling them to expand their ideas in forward-looking and powerful ways. This microcredential will challenge you to be a design thinker for change.
Upon successful completion of this microcredential, participants should be able to:
Participants will be assessed individually across the following two tasks during the course:
Task 1: Design provocations and insights (weight: 30%)
Task 2: Transdisciplinary designing, provotyping and prototyping: An initiative proposal (weight: 70%)
Participants must complete all assessments and achieve at least 50% of the course’s total marks.
The learning outcomes of this microcredential align with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers career stages 1.5.2, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 3.4.2 and 3.4.3 for Proficient Teacher and Highly Accomplished Teachers.
As a participating teacher in this microcredential, you will engage in research-based TD learning experiences and assessments that are designed to:
These TD learning experiences, and associated assessments, enable you to collect documentary evidence that your practice meets the above-listed Standard Descriptors and the criteria required to count as Elective PD.
Refer to the NESA website for the latest information about professional development requirements.
Mandatory
Discounts are available for this course as follows:
Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price.
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