Graduate Diploma in Education (Tertiary and Workplace)
Murdoch University
About
A teaching degree gives you the opportunity to help students gain the skills and ways of thinking they’ll need to solve problems in the future.
It allows you connect to people and inspire and support them to reach their potential.This course could suit you if you’re interested in transitioning to education from another discipline or already working in an adult learning context.
For example, you might be working or aspiring to work as a lecturer, adult educator, facilitator, professional development facilitator, instructor or professional trainer.You’ll explore the concepts, theories and practice of adult education and build on your own areas of interest through your choice of electives, such as mentoring, teaching second/foreign languages and opportunities with e-learning among others.If you have a Bachelor (undergraduate) degree in an area that’s not in Education, you could use this course as a pathway into the Masters of Education (coursework).5 reasons to study Education (Tertiary and Workplace) at MurdochStudy at the first university in Australia, and among only a few in the world, to offer the Tribes TLCTM Basic Course Certification as an accredited postgraduate unit.
Be mentored by our experienced teaching professionals who are here to support you in becoming a confident, creative and flexible educator.
Choose full-time, part-time, on-campus or online options to help you fit study into your working life.
If you’re an international student, you’ll need to study full-time to meet your visa requirements.
Most of our classes take place after work hours during the week, starting after 4.30pm and some of our electives are offered as intensive options during summer and winter school holidays.
You’ll be taught by leading academics who have worked in industry.Develop your skillsBuild essential skills and knowledge to meet your career or study goals.
Topics you’ll cover include:facilitating lifelong learning tertiary and adult education policy curriculum development for practitioners practical methods of instruction.Your careerGraduates of this course have gone on to become university lecturers, vocational education and training (VET) teachers, adult educators, adult literacy teachers, human resources and industrial training officers, and professional development personnel.Professional recognitionSuccessful completion of the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary and Workplace Education provides formal recognition of an adult education qualification against the national vocational education and training (VET) Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 (Standard 1, Clause 1.16).
Structure
Course Core 24 credit points
Required Units 15 credit points
| Unit code | Unit name | Credit points |
|---|---|---|
| EDN540 | Facilitating Lifelong Learning | 6 |
| EDN541 | Practical Methods of Instruction | 3 |
| EDN546 | Dynamics of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace and the Community | 3 |
| EDN588 | Curriculum Development For Practitioners | 3 |
Specified Elective Units 9 credit points
| Unit code | Unit name | Credit points |
|---|---|---|
| EDU511 | Special Topics in Education: Tribes TLC Training and Cooperative Learning Skills and Research | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDN671 | Mentoring | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDN515 | Tribes TLC Training and Cooperative Learning Skills and Research | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDN519 | International Education: Issues and Practices | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDN556 | Teaching Second/Foreign Languages | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDN575 | Opportunities With E-Learning | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDU610 | Introduction to Research for Educators | 6 |
| OR | ||
| EDU615 | Learning and Teaching with ICT | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDU616 | Teaching, Learning and Working in Culturally Diverse Environments | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDN618 | Professional Development Portfolio | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDU645 | Adult Learning in Education and Work | 3 |
Entry requirements
Advanced Standing
Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.
Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.
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