Designing Your Program
These questions could be used as a ‘reflective checklist schemata’ and starting point when designing your program.
Assessable Outcomes & mechanisms |
- What are the desirable intended outcomes for students?
- What will be the main ‘product’ of the placement?
Eg. Major Report/ Presentation/Learning Journal/
A built construction?
- How might studying off campus become a key component of a students’ educational experience?
- How are these outcomes being assessed and for how many credits?
- Will the program be for an individual or group project?
- Will students be visited by you or another academic/ administrative staff member during their placement?
- Will your program/activity be compulsory?
- Will your planned program be available to International Students, part time students and students with any sort of disability?
- If not, what alternative arrangements will be made for them?
- Will your program be restricted to work/travel in Australia or might it extend to overseas destinations?
- What will you do in relation to debriefing the students on their return to the university to ensure learning is maximised and any issues that may have arisen are discussed?
- How will you establish contacts within industry, the voluntary sector, aid organisations etc. who will be in a position to provide placements/activities for students?
- What form of documentation (eg memorandum of understanding) will you put in place with the host organisation/organisations?
- Will students be paid by the host organisation (eg in the case of vacation work)? Will that payment be made directly to the student or will payment come to the University and be paid to the student in the form of a scholarship (ie tax free)?
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Time Considerations |
- When will the program occur in the academic timetable?
- How much time will the Program take?
- Will the student need to defer a Semester to undertake the subject?
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Funding |
- Will the program require a stipend fee? Consider what the program stipend covers.
Eg. Are tuition, transportation, accommodation, resources/ equipment, covered by the fee?
- In whole or in part?
Can it be linked to a scholarship opportunity?
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Information Share |
- The field project ‘kit’ you produce can be made accessible online and by briefing key student adviser at student centre
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