Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education)

The Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education) is designed for participants working in an academic or academic support role in higher education.

The online course enhances the student learning experience by transforming teaching approaches, practice and innovation through the use of technology and design.

It addresses innovative and flexible ways of learning and teaching in contemporary tertiary learning environments, and contributes to a professional culture of scholarship through the use and promotion of research.

The course provides students with the ability to evidence their capabilities and assists them to demonstrate capacity to meet criteria when applying for vacancies or promotion.

Note:

This course is available to local students and off-shore international students who are studying in a country other than Australia;

this course is not available to on-shore international students on a student visa.

Winner of the 2018 Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Excellence (Higher Education) Team AwardSwinburne's prestigious teaching award goes to this innovative, high impact course that transforms learning in higher education.

The Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education) is a highly innovative and interactive online course designed to enhance learning and teaching practice in higher education. Designed for new and experienced teaching staff, it focuses on providing flexibility for participants through the use of online learning environments. This course is offered by the Learning Transformations Unit.

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• This course does not lead to teacher registration.

Award of the Graduate Certificate requires successful completion of four units at 12.5 credit points each, totalling 50 credit points.

Enrolment is part-time, normally undertaken at one unit per semester.

Each unit involves approximately eight hours of study per week during the teaching period. EDU60001 Nature of Learning and Teaching before progressing to other units.

Units of study

EDU60001 Nature of Learning and Teaching EDU60003 Curriculum Design and Assessment

Two other units from the following electives:

EDU60002 Digital Learning Environments EDU60005 Developing Inclusive Learning and Teaching Practice EDU60004 Scholarly Teaching: to explore, evaluate and improve EDU60014 Design and Delivery for Online Learning Please note: Not every elective unit is offered every semester – please refer to the unit entry which indicates availability.

Applicants are required to:

• Hold an Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent qualification (AQF Level 7) in any discipline
• Be employed in an academic or academic support role in a tertiary environment

Applicants without a formal qualification but with at least five years' relevant work experience* in an academic or academic support role in a tertiary environment, will be considered if they can demonstrate that they can undertake the course with a reasonable prospect of success.

* Work experience

Documents substantiating work experience need to be provided on company letterhead and clearly detail roles as well as duties and duration of posts held.

The course aims to enhance the student learning experience by transforming teaching approaches and practices including the use of innovative technologies. In particular it aims to enable participants to:

• Analyse the changing nature of knowledge and knowledge construction for learning and teaching in higher education
• Evaluate pedagogical models and frameworks and their application in designing for learning within the context of changing global environments and diverse student cohorts
• Design and develop effective digital first learning environments, learning activities and assessment tasks to support and enhance learning
• Demonstrate capacity for scholarship and reflexivity to inform practice and effect evidence based change