Micro-credential Summary:
The Building Your Changemaker Profile at CQUniversity micro-credential builds on the iChange course offered as an introduction to social innovation at CQUniversity. The content and activities will help you understand, reflect on and develop your own unique Changemaker profile. This is important in social innovation and changemaking activities as we seek to understand ourselves in relation to the world, uncovering what we are passionate about, and where we might be best placed to contribute to positive changemaking. You will learn about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and work through a self assessment process to enable you to identify your own changemaking archetype, find your “why” using the Japanese principle of Ikigai, and develop a Changemaker mindset.
This micro-credential will help you develop the following CQU Social Innovation Mindsets:
- Empathy & self-awareness
- Collaborative leadership
- Systems perception
- Deep curiosity
- Creativity and imagination.
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the importance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as they relate to Changemaking and have an understanding of the complexity and interconnected nature of social issues encapsulated by the Goals
- Identify social change skills, and your own Social Change Archetype and reflect on your personal social change mission statement
- Reflect on the Japanese concept of Ikigai to realise your strengths, weaknesses, passion and purpose
- Explore the concept of a growth mindset in a way that enables you to implement it into your life to overcome challenges you face on your social change journey.
Assessment: Online Quiz
Fee: Free for CQUniversity students and staff
Duration: 2 hours
Intakes: This micro-credential is designed for CQUniversity students and staff.
Students can access the Enrolment Key in MYCQU under the Micro-credentials Article.
Staff can access this micro-credential via EMpower Learning.
Please note it may take up to 48 hours for your micro-credential completion to be reflected in EMPower Learning.
Study Mode: Online
Outcomes, Career Opportunities and Occupations:
Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession. Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.
Course Enquiries: CPD-Enquiries@cqu.edu.au or socialinnovation@cqu.edu.au
To purchase this micro-credential
Visit the website iActivate - Design and Grow Business for Good and complete the following steps:
- Go to “How to Apply”
- Add this micro-credential (and others) to a shopping cart 🛒
- Login or establish your account if you don’t already have one
Micro-credential Summary:
CQUniversity Australia and impact-led business Impact Boom are collaborating to offer a self-paced and ultra-flexible online short course to guide aspiring and early-career social entrepreneurs from idea to impact.
iActivate - Design and Grow Business for Good is a first for Australia, an online social enterprise course developed by a University and an industry leader offering a digital badge.
Hosted on CQU’s Centre for Professional Development platform, the 12-module course content is curated to give students clear and actionable steps in defining goals and impacts, understanding business for good ecosystems, applying sustainable and innovative business models, prototyping a social enterprise startup, pitching and storytelling, collaborating, scaling and measuring impacts.
The content builds on Impact Boom’s successful Elevate+ Accelerator Program for emerging social entrepreneurs, and CQUniversity’s range of social innovation courses and initiatives, from entry-level to postgraduate, that have kickstarted thousands of changemaker journeys for students since 2015.
This is a non-creditable micro-credential which is awarded a digital badge and Certificate of Completion which can be shared to your social networks and displayed in your professional portfolio.
Learning Outcomes:
- Define the rationale of running a business for good, desired impacts, roles, teamwork theory and other frameworks that will drive a startup or existing project from the core
- Outline the elements of Design Thinking, Co-Design, and Systems Thinking strategies to understand, redefine and respond to the right problems
- Reflect on innovative business models and why these are crucial to a social entrepreneur’s success, including how to best deliver value to customers and stakeholders
- Identify key tools to understand the market in which businesses for good operate, define a personal and enterprise brand strategy, and understand social media and other marketing methods to create a trusted brand
- Identify how to protect Intellectual Property, and understand legal and taxation implications.
Fee: $650
Duration: 72 hours
CPD Hours: 72 hours
Intakes: Enrolments are taken throughout the year on a continuous basis.
Study Mode: Online
Outcomes, Career Opportunities and Occupations:
Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession. Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.
Course Enquiries: socialinnovation@cqu.edu.au
To purchase this micro-credential
Visit the website Human Centred Design and complete the following steps:
- Go to “How to Apply”
- Add this micro-credential (and others) to a shopping cart 🛒
- Login or establish your account if you don’t already have one
Micro-credential Summary:
This online micro-credential provides an in-depth examination of the elements of human centred design and the relationship to business capability and growth. The key concepts in human-centred design are explored, including ideation, prototypes, user feedback, iteration, implementation and observation. Models of human-design thinking will be explored with examples of successes and failures provided through case studies. The advantages and disadvantages of human-centred design are outlined.
This online micro-credential provides a non-creditable micro-credential and digital badge which can be shared to your social networks and displayed in your professional portfolio.
Learning Outcomes:
- Define what is meant by the term human-centred design
- Outline the key concepts of human-centred design
- Identify models of human-centred design including the advantages and disadvantages of each as they apply to business.
Assessment: Online Quiz
Fee: $99
Duration: 11 hours
CPD Hours: 11 hours
Intakes: Enrolments are taken throughout the year on a continuous basis.
Study Mode: Online
Outcomes, Career Opportunities and Occupations:
This micro-credential provides Professional Development for Business Professionals.
Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession. Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.
Course Enquiries: CPD-Enquiries@cqu.edu.au
To purchase this micro-credential
Visit the website Product Development and Innovation and complete the following steps:
- Go to “How to Apply”
- Add this micro-credential (and others) to a shopping cart 🛒
- Login or establish your account if you don’t already have one
Micro-credential Summary:
This online micro-credential will begin by discovering the ways that leaders create and promote social innovation within companies. Through examples and case studies, the micro-credential will dispel the myth that social innovation is solely an objective of entrepreneurial insight and will encourage you to consider what capacity you have to act as a social innovator. In addition, it poses the question: How does effective leadership straddle the seemingly incongruous objectives of social innovation and maintaining order? Finally, discussions will centre around whether social innovation is an appropriate responsibility for managers, or should it be left to entrepreneurial leaders?
This online micro-credential provides a non-creditable micro-credential and digital badge which can be shared to your social networks and displayed in your professional portfolio.
Learning Outcomes:
- Outline ways that leaders create and promote social innovation within companies
- Describe why social innovation is an appropriate responsibility for managers
- Reflect on your personal and professional capacity you have to act as a social innovator.
Assessment: Online Quiz
Fee: $72
Duration: 8 hours
CPD Hours: 8 hours
Intakes: Enrolments are taken throughout the year on a continuous basis.
Study Mode: Online
Outcomes, Career Opportunities and Occupations:
This micro-credential provides Professional Development for Business Professionals.
Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession. Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.
Course Enquiries: CPD-Enquiries@cqu.edu.au