Creativity and Innovation in Learning and Teaching
Jul 14, 2025 - Oct 4, 2025
25 credits
Full course description
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Are you a High School Teacher or Tertiary Educator who is looking to expand your learning and teaching toolkit? Are you seeking to engage your students in ways that stimulate critical thinking and foster learner-independence? Would you like to help your students address real-world challenges, while levelling-up their creative problem-solving skills and developing their capacity for collaboration? If so, then this is the Curtin Credential for you!
Join us on this learning and teaching adventure where, in collaboration with global industry partners, we’ll seek to fuse constructivist pedagogies with innovative educational technologies. Our aim is to enhance the learning experience for our digital-native students, while streamlining our own approach as educators in the areas of lesson planning, content development and assessment design, with the use of cutting edge AI-powered tools.
Upon successful completion of the Creativity and Innovation in Learning and Teaching microcredential, participants are able to apply for Credit for Recognised Learning (see CRL procedures: https://www.curtin.edu.au/study/applying/credit-recognised-learning/apply/) in the Master of Education degree for the unit: EDUC6052 Emerging Technologies and the Future of Education, which is equivalent to 25 credit points. The Master of Education degree is 200 credit points and 25 credit points is the equivalent of 12.5% of the Master of Education.
Please Note: To participate in this course, you are required to meet pre-requisites. Please click on the Pre-requisites tab below to view the requirements.
To participate in this course, participants must have access to Microsoft 365 (M365) and be the owner of a Microsoft Class Team. Access to Copilot CDP is preferable. If participants do not have immediate access to a class team, they must contact their IT department to arrange for setup and access. Ensuring these prerequisites are met is essential for engaging fully with the course content and achieving the learning outcomes.
This course is delivered at a post graduate level.
This course also requires you to attend and participate in a 3 day intensive, either face-to-face at Curtin in Perth, Western Australia, or online*, from the 14 July 2025 to the 18 July 2025. For more information click on the About your 3 day intensive - face-to-face or online tab below for more information.
*If you are unable to attend face-to-face due to your location, please contact us at AICP@curtin.edu.au to arrange online access.
This credential is designed for secondary-school teachers wanting to enhance their digital literacy skills and experiment with new educational technologies.
By completing this credential you will learn to:
- Apply creative problem solving, critical thinking and research skills to develop a teaching and learning project that leverages innovative educational technologies.
- Identify and apply appropriate constructivist pedagogies to the context of one’s own teaching practice.
- Develop unit learning and teaching approaches that integrate project-based learning and authentic assessment methodologies as appropriate into one or more strands, sub-strands or threads of a subject.
- Synthesise appropriate design thinking methodologies and entrepreneurial pedagogies in alignment with the Australian Curriculum, within in the context of a single subject to create an engaging learning experience for students.
- Create an integrated digital presentation to communicate the key elements of the learning and teaching project to the learning community.
- Critically reflect upon the learning and teaching journey resulting from the credential and consider its impact and potential upon one’s own teaching practice.
Assessment
To successfully complete this credential, you are required to pass a final assessment. To demonstrate what you have learned, you will present your Learning and Teaching Project at the final showcase event.
Casual Academic/School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
Joel is a passionate educator and academic in the area of User Experience Design. He has spent 20 years teaching at Universities in Australia and China, and been the recipient of numerous international and institutional teaching awards in recognition of his exceptional approach towards online and face-to-face pedagogies.
Joel Louie
Education Success Manager/Microsoft
Amanda Frampton(she/her) is an Education Success Manager for Microsoft Australia and New Zealand. She is passionate about share her knowledge and experience of innovative ICT (Information and Communitcation Technology) practices to ensure education institutions and educators have access to and awareness of the many possibilities that technology presents to enhance student learning. With over 20 years’ experience in the education sector as both a teacher and as a consultant, Amanda works closely with higher education institutions, school systems, individual schools and teachers to facilitate the digital transformation of practice.
Project Manager (Digital Projects)/Faculty of Humanities
Matt is a Digital Projects Manager with over 10 years’ experience teaching Media in both England and Australia and working within higher education. Matt’s expertise lies in developing new opportunities for educational innovation while leveraging new technologies. Matt is dedicated to fostering a dynamic learning environment and advancing educational experiences through innovative practices. In higher education, Matt has won several awards for his impactful industry partnerships.
In your 3 day intensive, held over 5 days, will consist of a combination of a workshop, a collaboration session and a personalised consultation session.
| Day One - Full Day | |
| Date | 14 July 2025 |
| Time | 09:00 - 17:00 AWST |
| Location |
Curtin University |
| Day Two and Three - 1 Hour Personalised Consultation | |
| Date | 15 July 2025 OR 16 July 2025 |
| Time | TBA |
| Location | TBA |
| Day Four - Specialised Workshops | |
| Date | 17 July 2025 |
| Time | TBA |
| Location | TBA |
| Day Five - Collaboration Day | |
| Date | 18 July 2025 |
| Time | TBA |
| Location | TBA |
Once you successfully complete and pass the final assessment, you'll earn digital badges that are instantly shareable to your social networks (including LinkedIn) which showcases your new skills and knowledge mastery.
This credential allows you to acquire intermediate knowledge and skills in a discipline. This credential usually requires you to have some related prior learning or experience.
Participants will be accredited with the Microsoft Advanced Educator Badge (Master Teams for any learning environment & 21st Century Learning Design) at the completion of this course. To obtain this Badge, participants will explore and utilise Microsoft Teams supported by other M365 apps to create an inclusive and accessible learning environment. Opportunities for development of the 21st century Skills of collaboration, self-regulation, skilled communication, problem solving, knowledge construction and the use of ICT for learning will be facilitated through the inclusion of appropriate design thinking methodologies and entrepreneurial pedagogies in the unit of work designed and delivered as part of this course.
You will also earn 25 credit points upon successful completion of the Creativity and Innovation in Learning and Teaching microcredential. You will be able to apply for Credit for Recognised Learning (see CRL procedures: https://www.curtin.edu.au/study/applying/credit-recognised-learning/apply/) in the Master of Education degree for the unit: EDUC6052 Emerging Technologies and the Future of Education, which is equivalent to 25 credit points. The Master of Education degree is 200 credit points and 25 credit points is the equivalent of 12.5% of the Master of Education.
Credit is awarded in line with Australian Qualification Framework Level 8 criteria, ensuring comprehensive theoretical and/or technical knowledge of the credential. 100 credit points are required to earn a Graduate Certificate at Curtin.
Curtin Credentials focus on five themes, which have been carefully curated based on what's most relevant and valuable to professionals today, and in the future. This credential fits within the following theme:
Embrace advances in digital technology, explore how it impacts our lives and learn how digital practices can optimise your business.
Unleash your inner entrepreneur and blend your creativity and problem-solving skills to create valuable new products and services.
*Curtin may cancel or reschedule a credential at any time and for any reason as it sees fit. The Start Date and the other details of this credentials are provided as a general guide only and may change from time to time.
✝This credential involves 150 hours of online resources, readings, activities and assessments. However to pass and earn 25 credit points, you may need to commit further time.
^A mix of online and face-to-face learning.
§Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase.
Start: 14 July 2025
End: 4 October 2025*
Duration: 150 hours
Length: 12 weeks✝
Delivery Mode: Blended^
Price: $2,000 GST incl.§
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