Course Title: Innovation Ecosystem and the Future of Work
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Innovation Ecosystem and the Future of Work
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
OENG1235 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
172H School of Engineering |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 2 2023 |
Course Coordinator: Professor Dinesh Kumar
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1954
Course Coordinator Email: dinesh.kumar@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Availability: By email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None.
Course Description
You are an innovator in study, work and life. This course will broaden and strengthen your innovation effectiveness. You will discover how technology, society, governments, and global trends drive change in the future of work over the span of your career. You will gain a holistic view of innovation - of self, others, and the task. Understand how bringing people and project together in innovation ecosystems brings new ideas to life, strategically delivering an innovation's true value into the hands of adopters.
Your course is richly illustrated with fast paced interactive learning activities and topics. Concepts will be brought to life through stories from alumni students, STEM industry leaders both locally and international. The engaging workshops, serious games and assessment will bring the topics together and provide you with the opportunity to apply your discipline insight as you build your skills and knowledge.
Whether you are a collaborator or leader in innovation, both the skills and an innovator’s mindset are highly valued by industry. Yet, you may find that it’s of more significant personal value as a strategy for a resilient, vibrant, and fulfilling career in a future of accelerating change.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
A basic understanding of innovation ecosystems as applied in contemporary health, science, technology, engineering, and math workplaces and future trends in applications from an inter-disciplinary perspective.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify strategies for managing the STEM innovations trends impacting on the student's future of work.
- Examine how a systems approach changes managing people and projects in innovation ecosystems.
- Describe how the creative and pragmatic processes determine innovation outcomes.
- Formulate and communicate a commercialisation strategy to connect innovation with adopters.
- Reflect how the innovation process is applied to a discipline/industry.
Overview of Learning Activities
You will participate in an integrated suite of modules comprising immersive online learning experiences and activities to develop your understanding of the future of work in an innovation ecosystem within the context of science, computing, engineering, and health.
The learning activities will develop your understanding of the following topics:
Module 1: Future of work in the digital economy, resilience and wellbeing, lifelong learning
Module 2: Systems theory, people management, project management
Module 3: Innovation process, design thinking, entrepreneurial self
Module 4: Global connectivity, Intellectual property. commercialisation
You will be actively engaged in a mix of self-directed online and timetabled learning activities (workshops and interactive lectorials). Prior to attending the timetabled sessions you will be expected to have completed the specified online activities.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for online learning, provided through the Canvas (myRMIT Studies Course site) and associated tools.
There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.
Overview of Assessment
There are no hurdle requirements in this course.
The Assessments are submitted through Canvas. Feedback is provided through Canvas.
Learning outcomes are equivalent across all RMIT campus locations and equivalent assessments are completed in each campus. Mode of delivery is the same in each location.
Assessment Task 1: SWOT Report
Weighting 25% This assessment task supports CLO 1 and 5
Assessment Task 2: Business plan and reflection
Weighting 25% This assessment task supports CLO 2 and 5
Assessment Task 3: Innovation development report/presentation
Weighting: 25% This assessment task supports CLOs 3 and 5
Assessment Task 4: Business Pitch and reflection
Weighting 25% This assessment task supports CLOs 4 and 5