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OLET1133: Understanding Critical Reflection
2025 unit information
Employers have provided clear information about the qualities and skills they require of university graduates to be successful. These include broad skills and knowledge of critical thinking, superior communication, disciplinary expertise, working collaboratively and with diverse groups, while working with integrity, to name a few. This OLE provides students with the knowledge of reflective practices to articulate the development of their graduate qualities. It provides students with the opportunity to create a repository of evidence of their graduate qualities in their ePortfolio thereby commencing their webfolio which they can build on across their course and in future employment.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. become familiar with the graduate qualities and be able to clearly define what these qualities mean in the context of your experiences at the university and your future employability
- LO2. develop your understanding and practice of critical reflection
- LO3. apply a suite of reflective practice frameworks to measure, record and reflect on your skills related to the graduate qualities
- LO4. develop your ability to write reflectively.
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