Summary of Learning: This course provides the participant with the understanding of how to develop and sustain Communities of Practice (CoP) for the modern organisation with the aim of managing and supporting optimal knowledge exchange, collaboration and performance improvement. It examines the essential ingredients for developing strong engagement and exchange of knowledge including, content, curation, engagement and approaches to technology enablement. The Learning Objective: 1. Develop an understanding the value proposition for members of Communities of Practice through different approaches to community creation 2. Develop an understanding of the foundational elements for effective knowledge exchange, collaboration and learning through CoP 3. Develop an understanding of key strategies for developing and sustaining Communities of Practice

This unit improves communication skills through crafting and editing a wide range of print, online and visual texts. Communication techniques, structures, legal and ethical issues related to professional writing are developed. Students learn to evaluate, draft and revise a range of professional and technical communication using the principles of reader-centeredness, usability, and persuasiveness. This unit is for students from all disciplines to enhance communication across the range of academic, governmental, professional, industrial, corporate and public contexts.

This unit will review various types of communication and how and why these are used in different situations to produce different outcomes. By exploring how we communicate and reflect on our own media consumption habits to consider ways in which mass media influence communication. By exploring how we communicate, greater insight will be gained into human behaviour and a better understanding of our role in society. This unit is for students from all disciplines to develop their understanding of how we communicate effectively within organisations.

This unit provides the foundation for scientific procedures and protocols as well as an oral, written and visual language, providing familiarity with skills and knowledge to communicate and excel in scientific fields of study. This unit is for students from all disciplines to develop skills and knowledge of health and safety issues, advanced computer and web-based skills, oral, written and visual communication.

This unit explores contemporary theories on language and culture, considering how our diverse human characteristics influence and shape our own experiences, and those of others. This unit is for students of all disciplines to observe and critique the relationship of intercultural communication as it relates to learning, working, writing, and digital media.

This unit utilises netnography and other tools to understand community dynamics and social patterns of interaction online, with a particular focus on mapping the emergence of online cultures. Students will study communities and social engagement in virtual environments from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing insights from media studies, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Social media management techniques will be analysed as part of an integrated approach to online engagement strategies. This unit is for students from all disciplines to further develop their understanding and management of social media in personal and professional contexts.