Graduate Certificate in Designing Learning and Innovation
Graduate CertificateApplications Open: 15 May 2023
Applications Close: 15 Oct 2023
Next Available Intake: Jan 2024
Programme Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Designing Learning and Innovation (GCDLI) is a 15-credit unit, 16-week programme comprising three courses focusing on learning and developing one’s own practice within the workplace, analysing organisations as part of complex ecosystems, and examining the relationship between organisational capability development and the ecosystems in which the organisation functions.
Programme Highlights
Graduates of the GCDLI will be well-acquainted with contemporary research on workplace learning and supported in uncovering what it means to own and develop their practice. They will create strategies to support learning and innovation relevant to their own settings. They will see their understanding of learning extended beyond the self, and to the organisational level and between organisations, where they will study organisations vis-a-vis their ecosystems and appreciate how inter-institutional relations in the ecosystem support organisational development internally and externally.
The Graduate Certificate is an elective certificate in the Master in Boundary-Crossing Learning and Leadership (MBX) programme, and stackable towards that qualification.
The Graduate Certificate is a core certificate in the Learning, Innovation and Enterprise Leadership track of the Master programme.
Find out more about the MBX here.
Learning Outcomes
The learning outcomes across the three courses within this programme are as follows:
Critique common and theoretical understandings of learning and implications for workplace learning
Design analytical strategies to understand learning and innovation in their work settings
Examine organisational theories and their implications on learning, change and innovation
Analyse the role of their organisation within its ecosystem
Construct their own stance on change that supports learning and innovation in organisations
Differentiate between approaches to talent development
Critique ecosystem relations that enhance or inhibit learning and development
Design a plan for supporting development
Programme Schedule
The programme is offered in both the January and July semesters. The next presentation of this programme will be in the January 2024, and the dates are provided below:
| Jan 2024 Semester | ||
|---|---|---|
| Code | Title | Dates |
| BXL621 | Pedagogies for learning and innovation | 20 Jan (8.30am - 5.30pm) 27 Jan (8.30am - 5.30pm) 17 Feb (8.30am - 5.30pm) |
| BXL622 | Organisations as complex environments and change | 24 Feb (8.30am - 5.30pm) 02 Mar (8.30am - 5.30pm) 16 Mar (8.30am - 5.30pm) |
| BXL623 | Supporting development | 23 Mar (8.30am - 5.30pm) 30 Mar (8.30am - 5.30pm) 13 Apr(8.30am - 5.30pm) |
Programme Structure
The programme will be conducted within a semester (4 months). The exact dates will be confirmed and uploaded in due course.
Find out more on the admission eligibility criteria.
The Graduate Certificate consists of 3 courses.
BXL621: Pedagogies for Learning and Innovation
Learners will examine and trial different workplace learning pedagogies. Through this process, learners will explore what it means to ‘own’ and develop their practice; that is to be aware of systemic and cultural influences on their own and others’ assumptions. They will be introduced to a practice theoretical approach that enables analysis of cultural and historical norms that reproduce and/or create spaces of innovation, learning and change. By overlaying the ecosystem approach, learners will be able to bring a powerful lens to analysing how to support learning, innovation and change.
BXL622: Organisations as Complex Environments and Change
Organisations operate within complex ecosystems. Learners will be challenged to make meaning of differing theoretical perspectives on contemporary theories of organisation and organisational development, and their ideas about learning, innovation, and change. This meaning making process will contribute to learners’ ability to position and support change. Using Knowledge Forum software and physical face-to-face sessions, they will learn to lead discussions that improve on ideas and understandings and move the discussion forward to deepen and co-construct knowledge of this field. Using their own or a selected organisation as the subject, they will move between theory and practice to grow their stance (philosophical beliefs) about organisational change in complex, dynamically changing environments.
BXL623: Supporting Development
In this course, learners will examine a range of examples of development and growth in different organisations. In the process they will uncover assumptions about learners, learning, innovation, and change. The language of ‘skill’, ‘capability’ and ‘development’ and its implications for approaches to talent development will be an important focus. They will examine cases where organisations use a war of talent and a wealth of talent approach and their outcomes. This will provide an overarching frame for conceiving of development in and of the organisation. Such framing also impacts on relations between educational institutions/training providers and enterprises. Supporting development in and of an organisation, requires understanding of what it means to have meaningful relations between institutions in the ecosystem that can support an organisation’s capability development and strategic directions.
Entry Requirements
Prerequisites
An undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification from a recognised university
Have at least 2 years of working experience
Skills
Effective verbal and written communication skills that meets the English Language Proficiency Requirements (ELPR)* if your undergraduate degree is not awarded by an English-medium university, or your undergraduate degree is awarded by an English-medium university but the language of instruction was not English
* at least an IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5, or a TOEFL score of 580 (paper-based) or 85 (internet-based), or a PTE Academic score of 58, or C1 Advanced score of 180 [score must be obtained within the last 2 years at point of application].
Refer here for SUSS's Graduate Studies Admissions Requirements.
Fees and Funding
Prices displayed are inclusive of GST. IAL reserves the right to adjust the programme fees below without prior notice.
*With effect from 1 January 2023, applicants will be subjected to the 8% GST rate.