Unit rationale, description and aim
Tertiary educators and Learning and Teaching (L&T) professionals (such as Academic Skills Advisers, Librarians, Placement supervisors etc.) require continued professional learning and development to remain effective as our students and learning technologies diversify and fields of practice evolve. Effective educators and L&T professionals engage in critical reflection and reasoning to enable attainment and application of new knowledge and skills related to high-quality learning and teaching.
ACU's Centre for Education and Innovation (CEI) short courses provide a library of flexible, online learning resources focused on advancing learning and teaching in higher education. Upon completion of 60 hours of ACU short course learning demonstrated through the achievement of digital badges, learners become eligible to undertake this 15-hour assessment-only microcredential, to gain recognition for their professional learning. This assessment-only microcredential provides a flexible professional development pathway for tertiary educators and L&T professionals to demonstrate their professional learning and gain formal recognition. The aim of this assessment-only microcredential is to enable recognition of diverse professional learning relevant to teaching in higher education through stacking short courses and credible assessment.
Campus offering
No unit offerings are currently available for this unit.Learning outcomes
To successfully complete this unit you will be able to demonstrate you have achieved the learning outcomes (LO) detailed in the below table.
Each outcome is informed by a number of graduate capabilities (GC) to ensure your work in this, and every unit, is part of a larger goal of graduating from ACU with the attributes of insight, empathy, imagination and impact.
Explore the graduate capabilities.
Critically reflect on teaching and/or professional...
Learning Outcome 01
Short Course 1 learning outcomes
Learning Outcome 02
Short Course 2 learning outcomes
Learning Outcome 03
Short Course 3 learning outcomes
Learning Outcome 04
Content
This microcredential is unique in that it provides a tool for assessment of learning completed outside of the microcredential itself in short coursework that is provided by ACU via Catalog and quality assured by CEI. The content of the assessment is drawn from the completed short course(s) that contribute relevant learning outcomes in addition to LO1 (e.g.LO2, LO3 and LO4). This content must meet the following requirements:
- Be equivalent to at least 60 hours of learning
- Align with the learning outcomes being assessed through the 15 hours of assessment
- Be eligible for certification of completion through a digital badge.
Assessment strategy and rationale
The assessment strategy in this assessment-only microcredential consists of 15 hours of combined formative and summative assessment based on the aligned 60 hours of short course learning.
The 15-hour assessment is a bespoke negotiated task, agreed to by the relevant short course(s) owner and student, which demonstrates achievement of the learning outcomes and is equivalent to a combined total of 75 hours of learning and 5 credit points.
This assessment may be written or in an alternative mode as negotiated combining formative and summative assessment, with an in-person component as required as part of the summative assessment.
Post in-person component, the assessment panel comprised of the short course owner and a suitably qualified moderator will convene and award a Pass or Fail on the summative assessment with written feedback to the student.
Overview of assessments
Assessment task: Negotiated 15-hour assessment F...
Assessment task: Negotiated 15-hour assessment
Formative component
The assessment is submitted in draft to short course owner(s) AUCs Centre for Education and Innovation (CEI) assessment panel. Feedback on this draft assessment will be provided to prepare the learner for formal, summative assessment.
Summative component
The summative assessment can be written or an alternative mode as negotiated, and will normally include an in-person component, such as a 15-minute oral presentation and 10-minute question and answer session for the short course owner(s)/assessment panel.
Pass/fail
Learning and teaching strategy and rationale
This microcredential assesses learning completed in short course work that is primarily asynchronous online. To maximise flexibility and engagement for all clients and therefore foster learning opportunity, client-centred, self-paced learning is an underpinning strategy adopted within the short course work that is assessed in this microcredential.
The microcredential sustains the focus on self-directed learning by negotiating a suitable assessment task between the client and the microcredential owner that draws on relevant short course learning outcomes at the point of enrolment in this microcredential.