Graduate Certificate in Implementing and Evaluating Innovation, Change and Learning

Implementing change intervention, analysing intervention outcomes and stakeholder feedback, and learning through self-reflection and experience.

Graduate Certificate in Implementing and Evaluating Innovation, Change and Learning

Applications Open: 16 October 2024

Applications Close: 15 April 2025

Next Available Intake: July 2025

Programme Type: Graduate Certificate

Fees: View More Details on Fees

Area of Interest: Others

School/Department: Institute for Adult Learning

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The Graduate Certificate in Implementing and Evaluating Innovation, Change and Learning (GCIEX) is a 15-credit unit, 16-week programme comprising two courses focusing on implementing change intervention, analysing intervention outcomes and stakeholder feedback, and learning through self-reflection and experience.

This Graduate Certificate offers learners the opportunity to implement change intervention guided by dialogue and feedback from peers and industry mentors, critically reflect on their experience as change agents, and appraise their stances on leadership, learning, innovation and change.

Graduates of the GCIEX will have first-hand experience of delving methodically into an organisational issue for which some actions carry the potential for positive change and impact, setting the planned action in motion, and evaluating it from a variety of angles and perspectives. They will discover their biases, inclinations and strengths when leading change and extract lessons from the experience.

The Graduate Certificate in Implementing and Evaluating Innovation, Change and Learning is a core certificate of the Master in Boundary-Crossing Learning and Leadership (MBX) programme, and stackable towards that qualification.

Prerequisites

An undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification from a recognised university
Have at least 2 years of working experience
Obtained Graduate Certificate in Leading Learning, Innovation and Change Across Boundaries

Skills

Effective verbal and written communication skills that meets the English Language Proficiency Requirements (ELPR)* if your undergraduate degree is not awarded by an English-medium university, or your undergraduate degree is awarded by an English-medium university but the language of instruction was not English

* at least an IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5, or a TOEFL score of 580 (paper-based) or 85 (internet-based), or a PTE Academic score of 58, or C1 Advanced score of 180 [score must be obtained within the last 2 years at point of application].

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This programme is currently unable to take in international students, i.e., you must be a Singapore citizen, permanent resident or a resident in Singapore (e.g., Employment Pass holder) in order to apply for admission

The programme will be conducted within a semester (4 months) and consists of 2 modules.

BXL611: Implementing Cross Boundary Change

In this course, learners will review their proposal developed in GCLBX. Once necessary approvals from relevant stakeholders have been obtained, learners will implement the proposal over the period of two courses. Online and physical face-to-face dialogue and feedback from peers and mentor will be a constant feature of implementation. Learners will keep a reflexive account of the implementation process which will provide information and data for their write up of the implementation. This write up, along with short written feedback from selected stakeholders, will form the basis of assessment.

This course looks back on the learner’s journey and forward to the future. An important aspect of leadership is effective use of and reflection on feedback. For these reasons, a key feature of this course is for learners to curate a feedback dialogue with invited selected stakeholders to share with the cohort, their experience of the implementation. Together, the group will critically analyse the feedback and discuss lessons learnt (for all involved in the discussion).

BXL612: Leader as Change Agent

Learners will surface and advance their stances on leadership, learning, innovation and change. Using their own and peers’ experiences, learners will critically analyse the different interventions, and the appropriateness of diverse forms of data and their analysis for both design and evaluation purposes. From this range of feedback from multiple sources, learners will strategise their next steps forward in their own development. This will contribute to their assessment for this course, along with the writing of a guide on change leadership for their selected audience. An alternative assessment for those who select it, will be writing a manuscript for submission to an academic publication.

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Module Types
COMPULSORY	BXL611 Implementing Cross Boundary Change BXL612 Leader as Change Agent	15 cu

This programme is relevant to learners who are interested to understand how to kickstart and/or sustain workplace learning at their respective enterprises. They may include enterprise employees that play a pivotal role in strengthening employee capability and performance, notably those in human resources and learning & development, as well as adult educators.

A minimum CGPA of 2.5 (out of 5.0) shall be required to successfully complete the GC.

The minimum candidature is 6 months and the maximum is 24 months.

What happens if I do not complete the graduate programmes (e.g. Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Master) within the candidature period? Can I apply to take the remaining courses via CET pathway?
Students who have not completed their graduate programmes within the stipulated candidature period will not be eligible for the award of the qualification for such graduate programmes. Such students however may apply to take, via the CET pathway, the remaining courses which they did not complete under their graduate programmes as part of their personal learning and development . Such application will be subjected to the CET admission requirement. However, as such students have exceeded the candidature period for their graduate programmes, they will not be awarded the qualification for such graduate programmes even after taking and completing the remaining courses via the CET pathway (“Condition”).
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE, IS one of the courses under a graduate programme. THEREFORE, APPLICANTS FOR THIS COURSE ARE SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING CONDITION. BY SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION FOR THIS COURSE, THE APPLICANT AGREES TO BE SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING CONDITION.
Instead of signing up for a Graduate Certificate programme, can I just register for one course?
Applicants may continue to sign up for modular courses as CET by submitting an application via the CET application portal. Upon successful completion of and attainment of the minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.50 for the required modular courses, eligible CET students may apply for the graduate certificates

Graduate Certificate in Implementing and Evaluating Innovation, Change and Learning