Transforming Learning Contexts through the 4Cs
Undergraduate
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 22 July 2024
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Transforming Learning Contexts through the 4Cs
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, the student will be able to:
- Articulate your understanding and analyse the value of communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking (4Cs) in contemporary educational practice.
- Assess and redesign a learning sequence to embed cross-disciplinary and multimodal learning opportunities that embed the 4Cs.
- Apply the 4Cs approach by planning and teaching a learning sequence with school students, community participants or student peers.
- Collect, analyse and reflect upon data about the effectiveness of the learning sequence
- Module 1: What are the 4Cs? Why do they matter?
- Module 2: Communication
- Module 3: Creativity
- Module 4: Critical Reflection
- Module 5: Collaboration
- Module 6: Transforming Complexity and the Power of Agency
- Module 7: Back to the Future! Learning Disposition Wheel as Resource and Tool
Our world is in constant flux, changing in ways and at speeds never seen before. As education systems, in response, try to shift a 20th Century preoccupation with what is taught to an emphasis on how to learn, how might contemporary educators design learning that empowers students with the skills and dispositions needed to address uncertainty and complexity, and thrive in contexts of change?
This subject invites you to engage with the evidence-based 4Cs approach to learning design and practically test its impacts. You will explore and apply each of the 4Cs of transformative learning - Creativity, Critical Reflection, Communication and Collaboration – in contexts of curriculum and pedagogy design, and assess their transformative impact on student engagement and achievement. Your own ‘learning about learning’ in this subject is enhanced through real world applications and embodied experiences of the 4Cs that will enrich and expand possibilities for creative learning transformation in your professional and personal worlds.
- Learning Sequence (35%)
- 4Cs Presentation (25%)
- Video and Reflection (40%)
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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-EDS-ADG-2024 - Associate Degree in Education Support
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Associate Degree in Education Support
Undergraduate
TAS-EDS-ADG