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EDED11456 - The Brain: Implications for Learning

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Recent research from neuroscience highlights the dynamic and interconnected nature of learning, emphasizing neuroplasticity and the brain’s ability to adapt and build new pathways. Understandings about the brain, its architecture and how it processes information provides evidence for how children learn and the implications for planning and enacting learning experiences with children. In this unit, you will examine your existing understandings about how the brain works and engage with the educational neuroscience and the application of this knowledge to the classroom context will be deepened. You will propose implications for teaching and outline some possible challenges that you may encounter as you begin to apply understandings from neuroscience.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2026

Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 80.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 16.06% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Turnitin Reports and subsequent reports to the Academic Integrity Unit.
Feedback
There were continued problems with plagiarism from the exemplars for both AT1 and AT2.
Recommendation
Provide scaffolded 'How Tos' for each assignment. AT1 already includes a checklist for the portfolio items. Both tasks include supplementary documents to help students unpack the criteria sheets.
Action Taken
'How Tos' were provided for both assessments. Both assessments were also heavily scaffolded in tutorials.
Source: student
Feedback
Text by Hofstede et al., (2010) no longer available from the library.
Recommendation
Audit unit readings and update those no longer available in the library.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: DDLT
Feedback
Add Gen AI statement to unit profile and assessment pages.
Recommendation
Gen AI statement will be added to unit profile and assessment pages.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: unit coordinator
Feedback
AT2 recommends using readings from weeks 7-11.
Recommendation
Remove restriction and recommend students reference relevant readings from throughout the unit.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: unit coordinator
Feedback
Large increase of suspected AI generated assessment and reference lists.
Recommendation
Students to only use scholarly sources from the unit.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: DDLT
Feedback
Reduce self-plagiarism
Recommendation
Explain to students that they cannot re-use previous material without unit coordinator permission.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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