Course Structure

The “Management Foundations” (student outcomes focus) course has been structured around the completion of five different projects. These projects are listed on the Course Projects page of this web site, and each project has a page of its own with some brief details about that particular project.

Much of the work for this course you will be completing on your computer. The course uses the cutting edge software technology that you will receive as a part of your enrolment fee. MindSights™ with its thousands of pages of resources at your fingertips will become a friend that you will continue to use regularly long after you have met all the assessment requirements for the course “Management Foundations for building excellent student outcomes”.

The five projects in this course will generally be completed within a six month period. The maximum time for completion is twelve months.

The course takes an Action Learning approach. The work that you complete in your workplace by successfully completing the projects in the course will provide the evidence required of your entitlement of the award.

The course is a Competency Based Training (CBT) course. The course is in effect a CBT course using CBT (computer based training). Please read the page on this web site on Competency Based Training if you would like further information regarding Competency Based Training and many of the terms associated with CBT. Underpinning theoretical knowledge will however also be assessed as a course requirement.

As mentioned elsewhere on this site, participants successfully completing this course will also have met all of the requirements for obtaining the Nationally Accredited course, the Diploma of Management. After you receive our certificate of successful completion of “Management Foundations” (student outcomes focus), we will then work with you on the administrative procedures that need to be completed to obtain your Diploma. There will be no additional financial cost for you to obtain your Diploma.

You may well ask the question, “why enrol in your course when what I really want is the Nationally Recognised award the Diploma of Management”?

The answer to that question is easy. The Diploma course has eight units of work which need to be completed. (You will actually be covering more than this as a part of your “Management Foundations for Building Excellent Student Outcomes” course) Each of these Units has several Elements, and each Element has several Performance Criteria which need to be met. The normal enrolment and payment procedure in a Nationally Accredited competency based course such as the Diploma of Management, is for the participant to enrol and either pay for the entire course up front or pay for each unit of work, one at a time. If this second option is chosen the candidate would be assessed in that unit and then pay for the next one and so on.

Each of the five projects we have developed in the “Management Foundations” (students outcomes focus) covers the work required in several units of the Diploma and many of the elements and performance criteria. We have looked at each of our projects holistically and want to avoid duplication of evidence gathering on the participant’s part. Our projects do not easily align themselves with individual units and elements in the Diploma course. However we have completed extensive mapping exercises, and successful completion of our course through an Action learning process in the participants workplace will provide all of the necessary evidence required for the Diploma course.

As our five projects do not easily align themselves with individual actual units of work. We have made arrangements for you to make progressive payments for the course after each project is completed. See details on the Course Costs page. After completion of project number four, no other payments need to be made.

You will have frequent contact and interaction with your course facilitator. It is desirable that some of this contact be face-to-face and workshops will be arranged for course participants. However, due to geographic location and other factors, this may not always be possible. Teleconferencing and/or conferencing over the internet are other alternatives.

The course facilitator is also your facilitator of learning in this course. We have shifted the focus in our courses from “training” to the application of learning. Your learning facilitator Ian McKenzie is available for contact either by E-mail or telephone. Contact information is on the Course Facilitator page of this web site.

All course participants regardless of location will be encouraged to interact and liaise with other participants. This networking will be of assistance to you in achieving successful outcomes for the two awards you can receive.

There are many “labels” for people who are involved in delivering professional development, education and training programs. Among these are: instructor, trainer, presenter, lecturer and teacher. All of these “labels” place undue emphasis on the wrong person in the learning process. The important person in that process is the “learner”. All of us as learners have styles of learning that we may prefer over other styles. In this learning process for our “Management Foundations” (student outcomes focus), the flexibility of the program will allow you to use the learning styles that you favour.

Ian McKenzie, the course facilitator also likes to consider himself as the facilitator of learning with participants involved in his courses.

‘Training is for cats and dogs.

 People learn’

Dick Dusseldorp, founder of Lend Lease

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