Capability Wrap

In Launching Learning (the first subject all students complete), you will be introduced to the Capability Wrap. One of your first tasks is to begin the Capability Wrap process by establishing a Course Learning Plan. You develop your Course Learning Plan by considering the course learning outcomes in relation to your own professional needs/workplace standards and your own goals for the degree.

The Course Learning Plan includes:

1. A General introduction: a brief statement about who you are
2. A Context statement: a more detailed statement about your current professional context or future work
3. A Personal Learning Profile: an account of your learning history and relevant learning experience that has brought you to this point.
4. My Course Learning Goals: a set of overarching learning goals for the whole course. (Please note: You will be able to revisit and update these as you progress through the course).

The CLP (and in particular the goals you set for yourself) guides your choice of activities in the rest of the course. You use this to influence the assessment tasks in those subjects – and your Course Learning Plan will be central to this. An exception may be with the electives you choose.

The Course Learning Plan is deposited in an e-portfolio. The e-portfolio is also established in the Launching Learning subject. To aid the process students will be encouraged to maintain a personal learning journal (that will never be shared with others).

Ideas about how to keep a learning journal will be discussed in Launching Learning.

With your Course Learning Plan in place, in each subsequent subject you produce a Subject Learning Plan.

This Subject Learning Plan has two components:

1. MySubject Learning Goals: these are specific to each subject, and are a way in which you can customise your learning and align the content and objectives for the subject with your own learning goals. These learning goals are also informed by your MyCourse Learning Goals and your Context Statement.
2. Subject Wrap: after each subject you reflect on how you have met your MySubject Learning Goals, and keep track of evidence of your achievements in relation to those goals. The Subject Learning Plans for all subjects are also deposited in your e-Portfolio.

The Subject Learning Plans for all subjects are also deposited in your e-Portfolio.

The Capability Wrap process begins in Launching Learning (the first subject) where you develop your Course Learning Plan.

As you progress through your degree you build up a suite of evidence for your learning in your individual Subject Wraps as well as any artefacts you have added (housed in the portfolio).

In the final subject, Investigating Learning and Innovation 1 (the Capstone), you will ‘wrap up’ all the capabilities gained through the course, producing a capability statement of your learning throughout the degree in a curated e-portfolio.

There are a number of inter-related processes embedded in the MEd (L&L) that help you keep track of your learning and achievements.

These include:

• Course Learning Plan (CLP): About you, your learning, your context and your course-wide learning goals (in Launching Learning)
• Subject Learning Plans (SLPs): Your Subject Learning Goals and Subject Wrap (the first task in each subject you study)
• Curated e-portfolio: a selection of relevant artefacts including an end of course capability statement (produced in Investigating Learning and Innovation 1 (the Capstone subject).

While you get the process started with your Course Learning Plan in Launching Learning and continue with the Subject Learning Plans in other subjects, there are even more ways you can ensure you arrive in the capstone with something substantial to curate.

These include:

Completing the first assessment task in each subject.

• It involves developing MySubject Learning Goals, and updating your MyCourse Learning Goals. Once you are in your second semester this task will also include a ‘Wrapping up’ of your learning in each subject.

Regularly updating your e-portfolio with relevant artefacts.

• For example you could include written assessment tasks, digital artefacts produced in various subjects, or even links to professional blogs you’ve written etc.
• Keeping a learning journal.
• You could set up a private blog, a notebook, audio journal or use the template provided via the UTS e-portfolio tool. Remember, your learning journal is private and you will never be asked to share it with your lecturer – but you should use the reflections in your learning journal to help inform each Subject Wrap.