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EDUF4031: Facilitating Learning and Change
2026 unit information
This unit provides foundational knowledge for understanding and facilitating curriculum innovation and change in teaching and learning settings. It considers change at various levels: individual, group, institutional, community, and society. The unit introduces core models of organizational learning and offers a range of tools for exploring educational challenges and co-designing learning innovations. Students will learn systems inquiry and design concepts and methods, gaining hands-on experience by applying them to analyse complex teaching and learning challenges, facilitate joint learning, and co-design practical tools for leading curriculum innovation in their future workplaces.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities of teaching and learning transformations at the individual, group, institutional, community and society levels.
- LO2. Apply systems’ inquiry concepts, methods and tools for analysing teaching and learning challenges in a context.
- LO3. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of facilitation in designing and implementing teaching and learning innovations
- LO4. Use participatory co-design methods and tools to plan learning innovation projects.
- LO5. Demonstrate leadership and responsibility for joint learning and outcomes in collaborative projects.
- LO6. Use key project planning and management methods and tool such as stakeholder mapping, project logic mapping, and Gantt charts.
- LO7. Understand the role of shared documents/artefacts and use digital technologies to organise and manage innovation projects.
- LO8. Integrate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into leadership for learning transformation.
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