Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences
PostgraduateTAS-EDP5022025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of how students engage in learning and the implications for facilitation
- Analyse student needs and design and evaluate strategies to support and encourage student engagement in learning
- Apply and critically reflect on facilitation skills in an educational setting to promote student engagement in learning
- Utilise personal and professional communication skills
- Module 1: Engagement in Educational Settings
- Exploring engagement: Overview, definitions and contexts
- Engagement: Conceptual organisers and perspectives on engagement
- Engagement in online settings and other models
- Elements and contexts of engagement
- Module summary
- Module 2: Facilitation
- Theory and history of facilitation
- Exploring facilitation
- IAF competencies
- Practical facilitation: strategies and techniques
- Review
This subject considers the knowledge and skills required to facilitate engaging learning experiences within applied learning settings. In the unit, you will examine the theoretical underpinnings of learner and teacher engagement in a range of contexts, including face-to-face and online, and develop and evaluate techniques aimed at increasing levels of engagement. Through practical assessment tasks, you will develop your facilitation skills and explore ways to increase participation of learners. In this subject, you will consider how educators can foster an environment where learners become increasingly responsible and self-directed in their own applied learning setting.
This subject suits individuals with some experience in working with learners (e.g. practicing teachers, trainers, classroom aides, or industry people who have worked with apprentices) who are interested in exploring issues of student disengagement, drawing on theories of how and why students might be engaged and then trialing new facilitation approaches that target student engagement.
Note: The third assessment task requires facilitation of a session with a class or small group of learners, so you will need to have access to a group to do this.
- Reflecting on Engagement (10%)
- Exploring Facilitation (45%)
- Assignment: Exploring Engagement (45%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-EDN-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Education
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Education
PostgraduateTAS-EDN-GCE