Innovation Week 2017 Teaching Colloquium - The Creative Curriculum (Session 2)
The Open Learning Environment (OLE)
The OLE is a collection of learning modules that to help students develop foundational knowledge and skills. OLE units are available as fully online, zero-credit point components covering topics such as entrepreneurial thinking, persuasive communication, project management and ethical reasoning.
These units are available on-demand and are like internal 'MOOCs': they will be available to all students (and staff!) at the University for free. Students in the liberal studies degrees and some specialist degrees can extend these by taking 2 or 6 credit point units which combine fully online study with masterclasses and seminars.
This session will feature some of the OLE units that are currently being developed:
Student Leadership
A/Prof Sarah Lewis from the Faculty of Health Sciences and a multi-faculty team are developing a set of OLE units to provide students with the theoretical and practical underpinnings for their leadership aspirations and present them with opportunities to develop and practice relevant leadership skills. The zero credit point unit (Leadership in Education and Organisations) is offered as a cross-faculty, multi-disciplinary learning experience which can be extended through 3 two-credit point units (Representation, Peer Mentoring and Community Engagement).
Numbers and Numerics
A/Prof Mike Wheatland and A/Prof Tara Murphy from the School of Physics are developing a pair of zero and two-credit point OLE units to explore the foundation of numerical computing: how numbers are represented and manipulated by computers. Students will work in Python 3, a widely used modern programming language, to investigate how mistakes in computational calculations can result in catastrophes such as the explosion of the Ariane 5 rocket.
Designing Social Media for Digital Influence
Dr Jonathon Hutchinson from Media and Communications in the School of Literature, Arts and Media is developing a pair of zero and six credit point OLE units to explore and expand students' 'real-world' strategic social media communication skills. The zero credit point unit is based on Sydney's highly successful Ethical Social Media MOOC running on Coursera. The six credit-point unit builds on this through the design and implementation of a social media strategy. For a sneak-peak into the real-life development of an OLE unit, read a behind the scenes story looking at Jonathon's work.
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Wednesday 16 August 2017
2.00pm - 3.00pm Education Building Lecture Theatre 351
Free