EDED20504 - Applied Educational Neuroscience

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General Information

Unit Synopsis

Using ideas from educational neuroscience examined in this Unit, you design an initiative to further enhance the learning environment in your educational context. Your intervention is to create optimal, enriched environments to enhance the activation of useful neural networks and neural proliferations in learners. In so doing, you will use integrative reflections to optimise your performance as an educator and consider the likely benefits to learners of the intervention.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites Completion of at least one unit already or currently completing another unit in Graduate Certificate in Brain Based Education at the same time as studying EDED20504.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2019


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Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 100%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Past Exams

Previous Feedback

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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: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation (SUTE)
Feedback:
 Course resources and content When asked about the best aspects of the unit students wrote - The resources

Recommendation:
 Maintain up-to-date resources and content to enrich students experience

Action Taken:
 The Moodle site's resources and content was the same as the previous offering with minor updates to a few resources.
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation (SUTE)
Feedback:
 Student support When asked about the best aspects of the unit students wrote - The support and the teaching staff

Recommendation:
 Maintain student support and care for students

Action Taken:
 Quality communications with student maintained with relevant support and individual care.
Source: Staff, industry and students.
Feedback:
 Term based unit to be superseded by Open unit in 2020.

Recommendation:
 Staff, industry and students.

Action Taken:
 In Progress
Unit Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Design an initiative to further enhance the learning environment in your educational context using specialised technical and creative skills
  2. Apply integrative reflections to further internalise your professional knowledge and skills in educational neuroscience in your educational context
  3. Communicate high level professional judgments and demonstrate personal accountability to a variety of audiences in an educational setting.

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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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