Educational Futures and Global Communication PG (9795.2)

Please note these are the 2024 details for this unit
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Educational Futures and Global Communication PG
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
View teaching periods Intensive
 Hangzhou, China
EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.125 3 Faculty Of Education
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Academic Program Area - Education Post Graduate Level Band 1 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 1 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
This unit will enable students to identify global educational trends and challenges in the twenty first century and develop skills that will enable them to link them into global education networks. Students will identify the ways these global forces are reshaping their own educational environments and practices. They will present constructive responses to varying perspectives utilising both verbal and written communication in the English language. To enhance competence in international communication, the students will critically evaluate the communication and educational affordances of global digital technologies and media.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will have:
1. Explored current trends and future challenges for international education networks through engagement with contemporary international literature;
2. Demonstrated a critical understanding of how interconnected global forces are changing educators' roles and responsibilities;
3. Identified how their own educational environments and practices are being reshaped by global influences; and
4. Demonstrated their improvement in both verbal and written English communication competency.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries


Skills development

The University of Canberra provides a high quality, innovative educational experience. Our courses are designed to equip our graduates to be leaders in their profession, to be outward-looking global citizens and to value life-long learning. 



Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.
Availability for enrolment in 2026 is subject to change and may not be confirmed until closer to the teaching start date.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
2025 Hangzhou, China Period 2 31 March 2025 Intensive Dr Ann Hill
2026 Hangzhou, China Period 2 30 March 2026 Intensive Dr Ann Hill
Not available

Required texts

Readings will be made available via Canvas and through Hangzhou Normal University services. Please look carefully through the reading material ahead of classes commencing.

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Approval of extenuating circumstances will be dependent upon the production of supporting documentation and at the discretion of the unit convener.

All assessment items required to be submitted online must be submitted via the appropriate Canvas drop box. It is the student's responsibility to upload the correct and corresponding draft or assessment item to the right submission section. Assignments must be submitted in a format accessible to the assessor(s), as stated on the relevant canvas site. If the unit convener and/or tutor are unable to access a submission, or if no submission has been made by the due date and time, a standard late penalty of 10% of the total marks possible for the task may be applied per day, for three days, after which the submission will receive a score of ‘0' in keeping with UC's Assessment Policy.

Special assessment requirements

Normally an aggregate mark of 50% is required to pass the unit. 

Provision of valid documentation

Please note that the University takes student conduct very seriously. All documentation provided to University staff must be valid and the provision of fraudulent documentation carries with it potentially serious consequences, including suspension and/or exclusion from the University. Note that all allegations of student misconduct will be referred to the Associate Dean for Education (ADE) as a prescribed authority for investigation.
Note that the University supported text matching software is Turnitin, which is available to all units via Canvas. For further information, please see this guide in The Shed -  https://uclearn.canberra.edu.au/courses/96/pages/turnitin-2/
The use of Turnitin is the default position of the university. Should a reason be put forward for deviation from this position, please discuss with ADE.
Unit convenors should:
1. Alert students regarding fraudulent documentation and potential serious consequences including suspension and/or exclusion from the University and that all allegations of student misconduct will be referred to ADE for investigation as a prescribed authority
2. Encourage all students to complete the academic Integrity Module (AIM)
3. Inform all students that AIM is a Required completion task – zero marks
• Students are required to complete AIM and upload the completion certificate (badge) to the assessment item drop box on the canvas site. 
• Students who do not submit the completion certificate will be given a withheld (WH) grade until such time as they upload it to the Canvas site. 

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

A breakdown of the expected workload for this unit, adding up to 150h expected workload for a 3 credit point unit is as follows
Reading and private study              60 hours
Intensive classes and class and professional application of learning: 40 hours
Assessment tasks:                          50 hours

Inclusion and engagement

-

Participation requirements

Your participation in class will enhance your understanding of the unit content and therefore the quaity of your assessment responses. Lack of participation may result in your inability to satisfactorily pass assessment items. 

Required IT skills

Basic computer literacy is assumed and students should be able to perform standard file management. Canvas is the delivery maagement tool and students will be required to access this site for Assignment submission and unit materials. 

Artificial intelligence services must not to be used for assessment or assessment preparation by students unless explicitly allowed in the assessment instructions for an assessment task published with the assessment task and/or in the unit outline. That is, an artificial intelligence services may only be used if:
• its use is authorised by the unit convener as part of a specified assessment task, and
• it is used in the way allowed in the assessment instructions and/or unit outline, and 
• its use is appropriately referenced, meaning that students must reference the use of AI in their assessment in the same way as they reference other source material.

In-unit costs

-

Work placement, internships or practicums

N/A

Additional information

This unit involves research-led education. There are active researchers delivering this unit who are able to engage students in deep and active learning and transmit to students their passion for the research they are carrying out.