94700 Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation - Masterclass
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Credit points: 3 cp
Result type: Grade, no marks
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Description
In this first immersive subject, participants come to experience transdisciplinarity and
complex thinking in action. Through undertaking a short collaborative project, based on
a real-world challenge, participants encounter the elements of the MCISI program.
They gain insights into how transdisciplinary innovation works, and become aware of
key elements and relationships in an innovation ecosystem. Based on this experience,
participants shape their inquiry approach into Creative Intelligence and Strategic
Innovation, mapping their personal pathway through the program.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
| 1. | Examine real-world problem situations and the practices in play as complex systems |
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| 2. | Question the assumptions that guide thinking and actions in professional practice by using a range of perspectives and frames |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject contributes specifically to the development of the following course intended learning outcomes:
- Critically analyse and creatively reconfigure established patterns, assumptions and understandings of real-world problem situations utilising frameworks of complexity and systems thinking (1.1)
- Conceptualise approaches for strategic interventions within organisations and professional fields as dynamic and complex systems (1.2)
Teaching and learning strategies
Participants undertake self-paced online study to examine selected cases of innovation that cut across disciplines, industries and sectors. They come together live online for six face-to-face sessions. These sessions immerses them in interactive learning with professional colleagues and academic staff (including ongoing feedback) and further hands-on engagement with concepts, frameworks and methods. Participants are supported to put their preliminary understandings of transdisciplinary innovation to practice by engaging in a short and experimental collaborative project within their professional cohort. Through guided conversation, including with their organisations, participants set their personal learning plans and chart a pathway through the program.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Collective response to a complex real-world challenge
| Objective(s): | This assessment task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 2 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): 1.1 |
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| Type: | Presentation |
| Groupwork: | Group, group assessed |
| Weight: | 30% |
Assessment task 2: Further insights from professional experience & literature
| Objective(s): | This assessment task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1 and 2 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): 1.1 and 1.2 |
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| Type: | Reflection |
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed |
| Weight: | 70% |
| Length: | Format: Please draw on your group work and focus in on an element of it that interests you. You may wish to present this as a deck, or as a written piece. If you do a written piece please try to keep to these word limits: What inspires you about TCP? What values capture you? (200 words) · What values would you suggest are key to engage with in this issue? (200 words) · What practices would be useful in engaging with complexity in this new way? (400 words) · How can they move beyond researching the problem, towards shifting the system? What strategy would you recommend for this? (400 words) Reflection: looking back over the last 6 weeks, what elements of the Masterclass have you been able to pick up and apply? How has this enabled you to reflect on your own practice? (400 words) |
| Criteria: | Insightfulness in questioning assumptions |
Minimum requirements
To pass this subject students must make a reasonable attempt to meet the expectations outlined in the brief of each assessment task, and achieve an overall pass grade for the subject.