EDT703 - Digital Systems: Curriculum Planning and Assessment

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

From 2025

Trimester 1: Online with intensive seminars

Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule: This unit is only available to students enrolled in E521
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - online

3 x 2-hour online seminars (minimum) per trimester, 4 x 6-hour face-to-face intensives

Ad-hoc additional optional online sessions will be offered to support return-to-study, academic skills, and study skills.

Content

Design and systems thinking will be taught through explicit and modelled design challenges, experiential learning, and design pedagogies. Students will build confidence in using systems design processes to investigate authentic problems, generate and produce material and system solutions and evaluate products.

In this unit, you will observe different perspectives and apply your knowledge by creating valuable connections across thinking and doing. You will develop new skills by interacting with established, new, and advanced technologies whilst investigating and working with various materials and techniques. You will investigate and work with a variety of materials and techniques. You will explore the process of problem framing, identifying users, performing academic and commercial research, conceptualising and evaluating engineering ideas and developing a fit-for-purpose product. The methodology used within this unit encourages skilled and applied research and project management in response to given design challenges. In this Unit, students will plan, construct and manage projects enabled by technologies from conception to realisation.  

Hurdle requirement

Brief summary of assessment tasks and hurdle requirement Rationale Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
1. Pass tasks

Students need to complete the units pass tasks to pass the unit.

The portfolio requires students to work through a series of Tasks to produce a portfolio of evidence showing achievement of the unit learning outcomes. To achieve a passing grade, students must demonstrate adequate performance in the completion of the unit’s pass tasks, which will show the required minimum standard.
Credit, Distinction, and High Distinction tasks are used to determine higher grades, corresponding to achievement of the unit learning outcomes to a higher level.

The pass tasks in this unit provides students the opportunity to develop and demonstrate the achievement of Unit Learning Outcomes at the minimum expected standards. These tasks are included as hurdle requirements so that students are able to provide evidence of achievement of these ULOs through their portfolio. The portfolio artefact that they submit is used to measure their performance against the minimum standards as well as their ability to justify the outcomes that they have achieved through self-assessment and reflection. GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO8: Global citizenship

2. Task Discussion

Students are required to discuss their understanding of concepts, and demonstrate achievement of unit learning outcomes, with the teaching team. To receive a passing grade, students must clearly communicate appropriate understanding of the associated concepts and achievement of the associated unit learning outcomes in these task discussions. As part of this process, the teaching team may require students to answer follow up questions for clarifications, redo the task, and/or repeat the task discussion to satisfy this hurdle requirement.
All task discussions need to occur within the teaching period. It is strongly recommended that tasks are submitted well ahead of the respective deadlines, because the completion of tasks involves submitting work for assessment, responding to feedback, and discussion of the tasks with the teaching staff. In many cases, your solutions will need to be corrected and resubmitted, potentially

Task discussions help students to demonstrate achievement of their unit learning outcomes, while also helping to authenticate student learning and improve academic integrity in the unit. The student-staff interaction during discussions will allow the teaching team to make judgements about student learning and progress in select tasks that are representative of high-order thinking and learning. Feedback resulting from this will help aid student learning and provide them with additional opportunities to demonstrate achievement of unit learning outcomes.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO8: Global citizenship

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