The global intensives are available only to students studying in Melbourne. However, there is an opportunity for our students based in Vietnam, Singapore, China and Spain to participate in these tours. In the past these students have been denied this opportunity because of difficulties associated with pre-departure and post-tour workshops, conducted face-to-face in Melbourne.
This pattern outlines an approach to foster, engage and manage new International Industry Connections and Partnership Institution relationships to help facilitate an Offshore Global Intensive - Study Tour.
The process for developing and building relationships between education and industry for the purpose of WIL is becoming increasingly difficult. And with WIL placement becoming increasingly important for developing graduate attributes and employability there is a need to look for other opportunities.
The Visual Merchandising Virtual WIL (VMVW) pattern creates a virtual communication point for the three parties—students, industry and teachers—involved in the VM industry placement program (also known as the mentor program). It will establish an online environment that allows all three parties to interact easily across multiple platforms.
The aim of this pattern is to address a problem with engagement in early assessment. The intention of the reflective blog assessment task is to prepare students for development as professionals and to break a pattern of limited engagement in early assessment tasks. Early assessment tasks are for learning—rather than of learning.
Online role-play ‘Fishbowl’ method incorporates the fundamentals of role-play and student collaboration. The students are presented with a scenario and actively contribute to the conversations within the role-play as part of their specified role or character. Students then move in and out of character as part of their designated role.
The Associate Degree in Engineering Technology (AD026) is a two year program offered in the School of Vocational Engineering. This program provides training in basic engineering skills, and can lead to a pathway into other engineering degrees.
This pattern outlines an approach to provide law students with an advance organiser to assist them to understand and master a number of practical skills they will need in their practice as lawyers, including:
In October 2013, fashion program students at RMIT University, the University of Salford and Columbia College participated in a live collaboration project, the Global Fashion Design Challenge. This was the third challenge in an ongoing annual collaboration that originally commenced in 2011.
