Postgraduate Course: Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Child Protection Data Futures (fusion online) (EFIE11362)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | *Programme Core Course: Child Protection Data Futures (MSc/PGD/PGC)*
Please Note:
This course is only available to students enrolled on the Child Protection Data Futures (MSc/PGD/PGC) degree.
This course will help you develop strong, creative and methodologically robust interdisciplinary projects. It provides space for you to reflect on your learning, develop your digital writing and communication skills, and explore research methods appropriate to your project. Via this course you will bring together the cross-disciplinary understandings gained from your taught courses, and apply these to the design of your final project. |
| Course description |
Toward the beginning of your time with EFI, you will define a project idea which you will develop and refine throughout your studies, and which will culminate in the completion of the final 40-credit Futures Project. The Knowledge Integration and Project Planning course provides a framework through which you can develop your project ideas and project plan.
You will receive a handbook which will clearly sets out the expectations for this piece of work. It will include the requirement to engage in, and reflect on, how different disciplinary perspectives converge on your project area, how the methods training you may have taken might influence the project plan, accounts of changes in thinking regarding project design and other requirements specific to your individual programme.
You will be required to make regular posts across the entire period of your studies, with evidence of active engagement and meaningful, consistent reflection required in order to pass. The handbook will specify the detailed requirements for these posts (for example frequency and format).
The primary medium for the course will be a digital environment which supports reflection across time, for example a blog or comparable space in which regular posts can be made, and which supports multiple formats and modes of representation (text, image, video). Programmes will choose the environment which aligns best with their pedagogic ethos, but a blog space will be provided as a baseline for all programmes. This space will be designed to enable peer support and peer commentary on each other's work, with granular permissions allowing you to make posts public or entirely private where preferred. It will be lightly monitored by Teaching Assistants (TAs) in order to help programme teams identify instances where students appear to be struggling. It will be supported by group and individual supervison meetings, each of which integrate with the support plan for the final project.
At the end of Semester 1 (in year 1 for full-time students) you will submit a '1000 Word Preliminary Project Title and Proposal', which should be informed by the reflective blogging undertaken throughout your studies. You will receive formative feedback on this from your Individual Project Supervisor, who will be assigned in early Semester 2 (for full-time students).
Students' reflections will culminate in a '2000 Word Finalised Project Plan and Title' which pulls together your thinking over your period of study and applies it to a coherent, robust and well-structured plan for the completion of your project work.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) - Online Fusion Course Delivery Information:
The Edinburgh Futures Institute will teach this course in a way that enables online and on-campus students to study together. This approach (our 'fusion' teaching model) offers students flexible and inclusive ways to study, and the ability to choose whether to be on-campus or online at the level of the individual course. It also opens up ways for diverse groups of students to study together regardless of geographical location. To enable this, the course will use technologies to record and live-stream student and staff participation during their teaching and learning activities. Students should note that their interactions may be recorded and live-streamed. There will, however, be options to control whether or not your video and audio are enabled.
As part of your course, you will need access to a personal computing device. Unless otherwise stated activities will be web browser based and as a minimum we recommend a device with a physical keyboard and screen that can access the internet.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Evidence the ability to take a consistently reflexive approach to their own intellectual development.
- Evaluate, synthesise and apply insights from across disciplines to a discrete project idea.
- Demonstrate knowledge of a range of methodological approaches to enquiry, and make a convincing case for how these shape project design.
- Apply critical, creative and informed approaches to the design and execution of their project.
- Use an appropriate range of approaches to communicating and synthesising complex ideas from across diverse knowledge domains.
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Reading List
| Readings will be largely drawn from the core and elective courses on which you are enrolled, and the domain-specific events and activities you are engaged in. However, there will also be a list specific to this course, updated annually and co-created across programmes, to incorporate readings in relevant areas including academic and general writing skills, digital communication skills, research project management, communicating visually and critical reflection. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Through this course, students will:
Demonstrate integrative knowledge and understanding of cross-disciplinary perspectives on enquiry (SCQF 1).
Students will learn how to apply their knowledge, skills and understanding to the design of a project (SCQF 2).
Students will scope cross-disciplinary approaches to enquiry from a critical and integrative perspective (SCQF 3).
Students will develop high level skills in communication and representation of knowledge across different forms (SCQF 4).
Students will develop skills in reflective practice and demonstrate a high level of autonomy, taking responsibility for their own learning and supporting that of others (SCQF 5). |
| Keywords | EFI,Level 11,PG,Research,Futures Project,Methods,Planning,Child Protection Data Futures |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Deborah Fry
Tel: (0131 6)51 4796
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Course secretary | Miss Zoe Hogg
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