Participation Criteria Lindie Clark A/g PACE Programs Director L&T Week 2010

1. Participation Criteria Lindie ClarkA/g PACE Programs DirectorL&T Week 2010

2. Policy context • Participation a key feature of the new curriculum (3rd P)

3. Criteria for Participation Units • Just as People & Planet units need to satisfy criteria, so too do Participation Units • Participation criteria approved by Senate November 2009. Available from ASQC website • Need to submit case for each unit to FSQC and ASQC for approval ... call for 2011 nominations coming soon

4. Requirements in two key areas

5. Community engagement • Entering into a partnership of mutual benefit • Local, national, or international • Or within MQ • Formalised in MOU or agreement • Choice of partner • Reflects ethical standards of MQ • Satisfies appropriate risk assessment criteria • Projects or activities that • Help the partner achieve their mission • Promote the well being of people and planet

6. Learning & Teaching • Rigorous academic framework to develop student capabilities • Units need pre-approved as Participation Units by FSQC/ASQC/Senate • Need to contain the following components

7. Learning & Teaching cont. • Provide students with the opportunity to develop:

8. DON’T PANIC, there’s help! • LTC resources and workshops • PACE Hub staff • Community of practitioners coming ... • Best practice seminars series coming ... • Criteria document itself (esp. re project types that help develop the required grad caps), e.g. creativity and innovation • working within limited budgets, working around system blockages • requires student to understand problems from multiple perspectives and/or devise a range of effective solutions • students face situations where conventional ‘answers’ don’t work and where new approaches are needed

9. commitment to continuous learning • The project ... • helps students explore future career and study opportunities • enables students to critically reflect on and evaluate their own performance, including acknowledgement of limitations and mistakes • encourages students to recognise their own skill development (and gaps) and plan for further education and training

10. Implementation • 100-, 200- or 300-level • PG possible too, but not required • Minimum 50% of unit workload on participation (all 3 phases: orientation, experience, debrief) • Minimum 20% of unit workload on experiential component

11. Examples of participation activities • Internships and Work-Integrated-Learning: e.g. Sociology, Media, Engineering, Health, Business, Accounting, etc. • Practicums with a partnership component: Education, Early Childhood • Field trips with a partnership component: community-based indigenous tourism initiatives in the Top End (Human Geography) • Service learning: community service + learning • Community development and/or research projects: multi-disciplinary or disciplinary-specific teams • Co-curricular activities: PAL, mentoring, volunteering (individual or group) • PACE International pilot projects: PNG, Philippines, Peru, etc • Social capital investment: social incubators catering to local community needs; community learning centres, etc.

12. What next? • Accreditation of participation units for 2011 and beyond • Discipline-specific – embedded in UG programs and majors • Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams – Faculty shell units • Need to submit case for each proposed participation unit to FSQC and ASQC for approval ... call for 2011 nominations coming soon • Participation criteriaand form available from ASQC website

13. Meet the PACE Hub staff • Lindie Clark A/g Programs Director • Nicole Yeates, Domestic Program Coordinator • Jude Forder, International Program Coordinator • Dave Rorke, International Program Officer • Where are we? F9C • Phone: 9850 9927 • Local and Regional Email: pace@mq.edu.au • PACE International Email: paceinternational@mq.edu.au