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INF537 Digital Futures Colloquium (8)

Abstract

This subject introduces industry experts, exemplary practitioners and thought leaders through a series of seminar presentations designed to provide insights into the impact of knowledge networks, collaboration and innovation in digital cultures of learning. Each seminar provides the stimulus to identify and reflect critically on topics that have implications for a student’s own professional development, professional practice and scholarly interest. This subject is the capstone experience providing the opportunity to undertake a study, media project, or article for publication to demonstrate knowledge and skills gained from the course.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Location

Session 2
DistanceWagga Wagga Campus
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Subject information

Duration Grading System School:
One sessionHD/FLSchool of Information Studies

Enrolment restrictions

Available only to those students undertaking the Master of Education (Knowledge Networks and Digital Innovation).

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to consider critically and situate new and emerging trends and technologies for learning and teaching;
  • be able to differentiate between current trends, futurist predictions and theoretical perspectives in the field;
  • be able to identify and reflect critically on relevant up-to-date literature, research reports and other scholarly evidence with specific reference to an identified case study or project;
  • be able to demonstrate how evidence-based practice fits into the cycle of professional enquiry in the landscape of educational change; and
  • be able to demonstrate critical interrogation of the relationship between academic theory, professional practice and connected learning.

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:
  • Expert colloquia and socratic seminar
  • Issues in digital innovation and education informatics
  • Critical review of relevant literature
  • Evidence-based practice frameworks
  • Specialist project.

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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.