Career development in Digital Media Industry Practice Faculty Spark - View, reflect and apply
Last updated on 25/02/2020
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Description
Industry ready students are more likely to secure employment. The main aim of the Bachelor of Digital Media Industry Practice is preparing students to understand their career options and to work towards their individual professional aspirations.
Challenge
Faced with a changing technological landscape, the rationale behind the Bachelor of Digital Media Practice has become more progressive and dynamic in industry preparedness. With a more student centred approach, assessment requirements are developed by the students working on their individual and unique past, skill set and future plans.
Approach
In identifying personal and professional goals after graduation, students connect with industry professionals and business mentors and are required to:
- undertake a 100 hour internship to identify learning outcomes and future plans
- design a page within the Gold Coast Creative magazine
- create a compilation of employment tools based on their previous assessment items.
These three assessment types yield different and unique outcomes from each student thus highlighting that they each bring a different set of skills and ideas to the industry. Because the industry of digital media is so varied, there are so many different avenues for students to adapt their own specific skill set to suit what works for them.
Outcomes
Because of the student centered approach, flexibility and industry specific outcomes of this course, feedback received was that students were more positive towards gaining employment after graduating. Other outcomes seen were increased confidence and motivation, an understanding of some of the industry challenges ahead, but the skills to deal with those challenges.
Support Resources
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Gallery of Griffith Exemplars under the Employability Framework
Gallery showcasing examples of integrated career development learning into academic courses and programs. Be sure to scroll down the page to view exemplars.
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Locally and Globally Connected (P4). Getting Started with VLE tools and the Course Design Standards.
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Learning Futures
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Careers and Employment Service
Licence
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Preferred Citation
(2020). Career development in Digital Media Industry Practice. Retrieved from https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/exlnt/entry/3105/view