| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Communications and Technology |
| Unit ID: | ITECH1001 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (GPSIT1001) |
| ASCED: | 029999 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
| This unit is designed to develop students` abilities to communicate effectively using appropriate technology, to manage and organise time, to solve problems related to information and communication technology and to work independently and in teams. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | |  | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Outline professional and ethical responsibilities relating to professional and academic conduct in a globally sustainable world |
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| K2. | Identify authoritative sources and use them in effective verbal and written communication with recognised referencing styles; |
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| K3. | Describe approaches involved with group dialogue and collaborative work in diverse contexts; |
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| K4. | Describe the Australian Computer Society`s (ACS) Core Body of Knowledge (CBOK) |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Deliver effective oral presentations to an audience of diverse groups and cultures; |
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| S2. | Producing artefacts (letters, reports, emails, social media posts) using text, image, video and bibliographic generation tools consistent with ICT professional norms |
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| S3. | Explain contemporary IT industry practices/presentations related to communication within ICT and relate them to professional standards and your own career aspirations |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Demonstrate effective communication by presenting identified relevant, diverse and authoritative materials on a contemporary topic. |
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| A2. | Apply appropriate technology to work independently, in teams, and to facilitate group work including written work and effective communication. |
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| Unit Content: |
•Transitioning into higher education. Effective study habits. Identifying authoritative sources, Integrity.
•Story telling and effective written communication including the relevant use of technologies including bibliographic software, authoritative repositories and document generation tools
•Visual story telling and the effective design and use of infographics and visualisation including image editing tools
•Video story telling and the effective design and use of treatments, storyboards and video editing tools
•Group dialogue; types of dialogue, challenges to effective group dialogue
•Collaborative work. Challenges involved in teamwork and collaboration
•IT and related industry activity and research developments in the local community, and around the globe; ACS`s CBOK, SFIA and their relationship with industry; Career pathways. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | Learning outcomes
(KSA) | Assessment task
(AT#) | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | K1, K2, K3, S2, A2 | AT2 | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Not applicable | Not applicable | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | K1-2, S2 | AT3 | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | K4, S3, A2 | AT4 | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Not applicable | Not applicable |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K2, S1 | Improve public speaking skills, confidence, professionalism and presentation ability with the use of presentation technologies | Individual and/or group presentations | 10% - 20% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S2, A2 | In a group, co-specify and co-design a solution to a contemporary issue | Group reports | 20% - 40% | | 3. | K1-2, S2, A1 | Design document, image and video artefacts that describe a contemporary issue relating to information technology | Individual Reports | 40% - 60% | | 4. | K4, S3, A2 | Artifact demonstrating engagement with the IT Industry | Reflective report | 10%-20% |
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Professional Standards / Competencies: |
| | Standard / Competency | | 1. | Threshold Learning Outcomes - Mathematics: Initial |
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| Attribute | Assessed | Level | | 5 Responsibility | | 5.1 Demonstrate personal, professional and social responsibility. | | | 5.1.1 Ability to self direct learning to extend their existing knowledge and that of others. | | No | Introductory | | | 5.1.2 Ability to work effectively and responsibly in an individual or team context. | | Yes | Introductory |
| | 2. | Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA): Version 8 |
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| Attribute | Assessed | Level | | Development and implementation | | Content management | | | INCA Content authoring (Levels 1 - 6) Planning, designing and creating textual information, supported where necessary by graphical content. | | Yes | 2 | | | ICPM Content publishing (Levels 1 - 6) Managing and continually improving the processes that collect, assemble and publish content. | | Yes | 1 | | People and skills | | Skills management | | | ETDL Learning delivery (Levels 2 - 5) Transferring knowledge, developing skills and changing behaviours using a range of techniques, resources and media. | | Yes | 2 |
| | 3. | Australian Computer Society - Core Body of Knowledge: 2023 accreditation |
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| Attribute | Assessed | Level | | Core ICT Knowledge | |
ICT Fundamentals
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Design thinking: methods and tools that are used for handling abstraction could vary a great deal with the branch of ICT, from circuit diagrams to data modelling tools to business process modelling
| | Yes | Introductory | | |
Systems thinking: components and interactions between them, structure and function, emergent properties and functions, systems layers
| | Yes | Introductory | | Professionalism as it applied in ICT | | Professional ICT Ethics | | |
Fundamental ethics notions (stakeholders, responsibility, harm, benefit, rights, virtues, duty, respect and consequences) and ethics theories
| | Yes | Introductory | | |
Integrity systems: the ACS Code of Professional Conduct, ethics committees and protections whistle
| | Yes | Introductory | |
Working Individually and in ICT development teams
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Team organisation, development and management, especially of multi-disciplinary, diverse ICT teams; collaboration, group dynamics, leadership styles, conflict resolution, groupware and virtual teams
| | Yes | Intermediate | | |
Individual time management, workflow and information management
| | Yes | Introductory | |
Professional Communication
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Communication with different audiences (technical, managerial, users and non-digitally orientated audiences) in different forums (meetings, presentations, networking)
| | Yes | Intermediate | |
The Professional ICT Practitioner
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The professional society (the ACS), certification to practise, legal liabilities and indemnity
| | Yes | Introductory | | |
Continuing professional development, career upskilling, networking
| | Yes | Introductory |
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