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About this learning program
The Chiropractor-Academic Learning program is based on earning Digital Certificates by completing a suite of Digital Badges to signify your attainment in a series of microcredentials. A microcredential is a discreet packet of learning on a specific theme with several topics, the completion of which earns a Digital Badge.
You may complete as many Digital Badges as you like but to earn a Certificate you must complete the 5 nominated Digital Badges of that Digital Certificate.
Within the university and higher education sector, the attainment of Badges and Certificates in one's fields of teaching and supervision is helpful to support academic progression to a higher pay rate.
Within the Transnational Curriculum the 'The Academic Mindset' Digital Certificate is preferred to be held by all applicants for an academic role within the delivery of the curriculum. As with most Digital Certificates, it requires completion of 5 Digital Badges.
This learning can be studied in the language of your choice, selected from the Dropdown menu at the top of each webpage, and you may submit your assessments in the language of your choice. Comprehension of English is required for some readings.
About fees
All licensed Chiropractors in good standing have free access to Certificate 1, The Academic Mindset, and may complete the 5 Badges and the Summative Assessment at no cost.
Subsequent fees are minimal for other Digital Badges and then applying those Badges to collect your Digital Certificates.
On completion of Certificate 1, the fees payable to unlock access to further learning are:
Digital Badge, each: AUD$50.00, ￥5,000, ₱2,000
Digital Certificate, each: AUD$50.00, ￥5,000, ₱2,000
There is no time limitation on the life of any Digital Badge or Digital Certificate.
About the Digital Certificates
At this time there are five (5) Certificates that can be earned, each with a volume of learning of about 225 university-hours. This is roughly the equivalent Volume of Learning required for a traditional course in a traditional Graduate Certificate delivered by a university.
Each Digital Certificate consists of 5 Digital Badges as microcredentials, the completion of each of these 5 microcredentials and receipt of their Digital Badges in the field of a Certificate is required to earn the Certificate. Therefore the Digital Certificate is earned by the attainment of 5 related Digital Badges and submission of a summative assessment. Total certificate cost, including 5 badges, is therefore AUD$300.00, ￥30,000, ₱12,000.
The Digital Certificates currently available are:
The academic mindset: The Badges are The modern academic, Responsibilities of an academic, the Chiropractic academic, Types of curriculum, and Transnational Chiropractic curriculum. These can be taken for FREE, & completion will unlock all further paid certificates, including:
Chiropractic educational philosophy: The Badges are What is an educational philosophy?, How does philosophy apply to teaching and learning?, Integrating your own philosophical lens, Applying your philosophy, and Practical implementation.
Chiropractic in the 21st Century: The Badges are History of subluxation; Changing the rhetoric, Conventional Chiropractic, Resolving indeterminacy, and Subluxation as a fuzzy narrative.
Understanding assessment: Stages of proficiency, Mandatory objective outcomes, Styles of expression, and Equitable grading,
Knowing what you are teaching: Evidence hierarchy, Universal meanings, Learning outcomes, The expert Chiropractor, and Communication.
About Digital Badges
Each Badge is a microcredential gathering about 5 topics. Each topic contains reading and you can either make notes using your device's inbuilt function to highlight and mark-up key points, or do as we recommend and take a trip to a stationary store and buy yourself a really nice notepad and pen; keep these at your side to capture your divergent thoughts and interpretations as you read through the learning objects.
On successful completion, earning >50% for a topic's formative 'self assurance' work, you will earn a Digital Badge in the topic of that microcredential.
When all microcredentials in any one Certificate grouping are completed, you can complete the summative assessment to earn a Digital Certificate in the collected title of that grouping of microcredentials.
Assessment
Your grade for this Certificate is calculated as follows:
Each of 5 Badges can earn up to 10 points, total 50 towards your final grade.
The summative assessment can earn up to 50 points towards your final grade for this Certificate.
Certificate 1: The academic mindset
This certificate is a stackable set of five related Badges. The successful completion (passing grade >=50%) of each of all 5, plus completion of the Summative assessment, earns the Digital Certificate 1, The academic mindset.
Each Badge is allocated a volume of learning of about 45 hours, a total of about 225 learning hours in total to earn this Digital Certificate.
Each topic within each Badge contains a reading and you can either use your device's inbuilt function to highlight and mark-up key points or take a trip to a stationary store and buy yourself a really nice notepad and pen; keep these at your side to capture your divergent thoughts and your interpretations as you read through the learning objects.
Assessment
Your grade for this Certificate is calculated as follows:
Each of 5 Badges can earn up to 10 points, total 50 towards your final grade..
The summative assessment can earn up to 50 points towards your final grade for this certificate.
Certificate 2: Chiropractic educational philosophy
This course is a stackable set of five (5) micro-credentials. The successful completion (passing grade >=50%) of each will earn credit towards one of 4 courses in the Graduate Certificate of Chiropractic Education (to be approved)
Each micro credential is allocated a volume of learning of about 50 hours, a total of about 300 learning hours per course for each of 5 course, a total learning volume of 1,500 hours.
Related micro-credentials will hold their credit value towards the course for 2 calendar years from submission of the first. Each heading contains a reading and you can either use your device's inbuilt function to highlight and mark-up key points or take a trip to a stationary store and buy yourself a really nice notepad and pen; keep these at your side to capture your divergent thoughts and your interpretations as you read through the learning objects.
Assessment
Your grade for this course is calculated as follows:
Each of 5 Badges can earn up to 10 points, total 50 towards your final grade.
The summative assessment can earn up to 50 points towards your final grade.
Course 3: Chiropractic in the 21st Century
This course is a stackable set of five (5) micro-credentials. The successful completion (passing grade >=50%) of each will earn credit towards one of 4 courses in the Graduate Certificate of Chiropractic Education (to be approved)
Each micro credential is allocated a volume of learning of about 50 hours, a total of about 300 learning hours per course for each of 5 course, a total learning volume of 1,500 hours.
Related micro-credentials will hold their credit value towards the course for 2 calendar years from submission of the first. Each heading contains a reading and you can either use your device's inbuilt function to highlight and mark-up key points or take a trip to a stationary store and buy yourself a really nice notepad and pen; keep these at your side to capture your divergent thoughts and your interpretations as you read through the learning objects.
Assessment
Your grade for this course is calculated as follows:
Each of 5 Badges can earn up to 10 points, total 50 towards your final grade.
The summative assessment can earn up to 50 points towards your final grade.
Course 4: Understanding learner assessment
This course is a stackable set of five (5) micro-credentials. The successful completion (passing grade >=50%) of each will earn credit towards one of 4 courses in the Graduate Certificate of Chiropractic Education (to be approved)
Each micro credential is allocated a volume of learning of about 50 hours, a total of about 300 learning hours per course for each of 5 course, a total learning volume of 1,500 hours.
Related micro-credentials will hold their credit value towards the course for 2 calendar years from submission of the first. Each heading contains a reading and you can either use your device's inbuilt function to highlight and mark-up key points or take a trip to a stationary store and buy yourself a really nice notepad and pen; keep these at your side to capture your divergent thoughts and your interpretations as you read through the learning objects.
Assessment
Your grade for this course is calculated as follows:
Each of 5 Badges can earn up to 10 points, total 50 towards your final grade.
The summative assessment can earn up to 50 points towards your final grade.
Course 5: Knowing what you are teaching
This course is a stackable set of five (5) micro-credentials. The successful completion (passing grade >=50%) of each will earn credit towards one of 4 courses in the Graduate Certificate of Chiropractic Education (to be approved)
Each micro credential is allocated a volume of learning of about 50 hours, a total of about 300 learning hours per course for each of 5 course, a total learning volume of 1,500 hours.
Related micro-credentials will hold their credit value towards the course for 2 calendar years from submission of the first. Each heading contains a reading and you can either use your device's inbuilt function to highlight and mark-up key points or take a trip to a stationary store and buy yourself a really nice notepad and pen; keep these at your side to capture your divergent thoughts and your interpretations as you read through the learning objects.
Summative assessment for a Digital Certificate
Completion of 5 Digital Badges plus one Summative Assessment, similar to the example given here.
Summative assessment of the course
Using as few or as many words as you feel you need, provide an interpretative reflection on your learning in this course. You may argue for or against any or all points taken from your readings. There is a technical word limit of ...
Be sure to identify and describe the strategies you will apply to translate this learning into your practice as an academic.
Click 'submit' to receive a grading to indicate your attainment which will become your grade for his course.
This task can earn you up to 50% of your grade for this course. This 'reflection' will be graded as: 'On song' A(41 - 50); 'solid' B' (31 - 40); 'acceptable' C (21 - 30); 'passable' D (11 - 20); 'needs more work' F (10 or less).
The name 'Asia-Pacific Chiropractic Journal' is a registered business name with ASIC, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
Fee-free publication
This Journal's fee-per-article is $0.00. You get prompt peer review, open access which means free to all readers, indexation, and EBSCO listing giving full-text to all universities in the world, at no cost to you. Reading is free and you can download whatever you wish.
