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Unit of Study EDUC6020 - ICT Professional Practice (2024)

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Unit description

Provides students with a body of knowledge, skills, attributes, qualities and values required of ICT professionals. Students will be introduced to principles, standards, code of conducts as well as awareness of cultural diversity, conflict, and its management in a multicultural workforce. Students will explore a range of issues that ICT professionals must manage, allowing students to identify and understand current and emerging issues generated by an ever-changing technology.

Unit content

Module 1: The ICT profession and its contemporary issues

Module 2: The ICT principles, standards, code of conducts and legal systems

Module 3: IT governance and project management practice

Module 4: Sustainable and ethical computing in practice

Module 5: Cultural and accessibility considerations

Module 6: Professional career development

 

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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

discuss contemporary issues in ICT professional practices

demonstrate a solid understanding of ICT principles, standards, processes and codes of professional conduct to provide ICT products and services

analyse situations involving social, cultural, legal, ethical factors of ICT and consequences for individuals, organisations, and society

utilise effective communication, collaboration and social skills to be productive in ICT professional practice

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