Learning engagement/activities

RMIT University is a global university of technology and design, with three campuses in Australia, two Vietnam and as well as worldwide partnerships.

Trades education lends itself to “learning on the job” and the “Flipping the Trades” project focuses on re-designing courses to make them more flexible and allow students to learn and be assessed in their place of work.

RMIT University is a global university of technology and design, with three campuses in Australia and two Vietnam, as well as worldwide partnerships.

Currently, there is little interaction between teaching staff/students in Australia and those in Vietnam, and the current use of digital channels is limited.

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.

To improve communication with students and workplace supervisors and to facilitate a community of learners for students engaged in WIL.

Feedback from both students and clients has been very positive, and a number of students have also been employed by companies involved in the course as a client.

The problem is this project addressed was the emerging need to deliver online School based common courses that are high quality and highly inter-active. Previously the course was run online but the only suitable text was not engaging, had a high readability index, poorly described difficult concepts and had no student support or relevant interactivities.

The student cohort in the common core course, Business Computing 1, is very large (approx. 1000), with a wide variance of prior experience.

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.

Programming is taught as of first year in Computer Science and cognate disciplines and is known to be challenging (to first year students). In CSIT the key first year programming course is Programming 1.

Typically, and this is a worldwide phenomenon, first year programming courses experience high failure and attrition rates.

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.