BUSS 2066CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION – CITY WEST

Timetable SP2 2016, Class 22261, City West Campus

Date / Time / Topic
Friday
4 March / 9.10am to 12.00pm / Learnonline familiarisation.
There will be no face to face session
Friday
11 March / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Topic 1: Preparatory session
Team allocation
Multiple choice test – introduction and practice session
Friday
18 March / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 1: Short multiple choice test 1
Topic 2: Myths of creativity
Introduction to the class project and presentation by the business
Friday
25 March / Easter Friday – public holiday
Friday
1 April / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 1: Short multiple choice test 2
Topic 2 (continued): Myths of creativity
Friday
8 April / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 1: Short multiple choice test 3
Topic 3:Creativity through alternative perspectives
Semester Break
Tuesday
26 April / 11.00pm / Assessment 2: to be submitted through Gradebook on the Learnonline website for this course
Friday
29 April / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 1: Short multiple choice test 4
Topic 4: Creativity through imitation
Friday
6 May / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 1: Short multiple choice test 5
Topic 5: Creativity through apprenticeship
Friday
13 May / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 1: Short multiple choice test 6
Topic 6: Innovation capability
Friday
20 May / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 1: Short multiple choice test 7
Topic 7: User-generated innovation
Friday
27 May / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 2:Peer review of Assessment 2: Idea journal
Topic 8: Levels of innovation
Friday
3 June / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 1: Short multiple choice test 8
Topic 9: Forms of innovation
Topic 10: Implementing creativity and innovation in the business
Tuesday
7 June / 11.00pm / Assessment 3: to be submitted through Gradebook on the Learnonline website for this course
Friday
10 June / 9.10am to 12.00pm
HH3-09 / Assessment 3:Peer review of Assessment 3: Report
Discussion and feedback

You benefit from the Team-Based Learning teaching method for collaborative learning and productive teamwork, as well as a number of other value-adding innovations.
ASSESSMENT

Note: detailed guidelines for assessments are on the course Learnonline website. It is most important to follow those guidelines, and use the templates provided on that website.

Assessment 1 – Individual Assignment (30%)

This is made up of a series of separate class tests. These are short multiple-choice tests that are taken at the start of the seminar sessions, as indicated in the timetable. These tests assess knowledge of the course content, and the materials covered in each test are specified on the Learnonline website. Teams of 5 or 6 are formed at the start of the first session of the seminar series, and these are fixed for the course. Questions are first answered in class as individual tests. The same test is then completed as a team. Team results are calculated immediately, and the answers reviewed in the class. Individual marks are calculated as a combination of the individual result and the team result. Because this assessment requires each student to take part in a team process, it is not possible to take a deferred class test. This means that if a test is missed, there will be no marks for that particular test.

Assessment 2 – Ideas journal (30%)

Students are to apply in a critical and creative manner each of the Burkus (2014) “creativity myths” to the enterprise that will provide the “live case study” for this class. The ideas journal is presented as a poster (a single A-3 page), and students must use the template provided on the course Learnonline website. Journals will be subject to a peer-review process that will allow each student to get feedback on their work, and to learn from the work that others have done. The way in which the peer-review is implemented is detailed on the course Learnonline website, and will be discussed during the lecture sessions.

Assessment 3 – Group report (40%)

A “live case study” is introduced at the start of the seminar series. This is a presentation by a small enterprise, and students working in teams are given the challenge to identify ways in which the enterprise can become more creative and innovative. A good understanding of the business idea is developed during the seminar sessions, as it is the focus of discussions and team-work exercises.

Each report is presented as a poster (made up oftwo A3 pages), and teams display these in the lecture room at a presentation and review session. Each teamis given1 minute toexplain to the class why its report presents the most persuasive case. Teams then have 20 to 30 minutes to assessother reports, and then each team asks questions of the other teams. This is followed by general discussion and feedback. This innovative process is designed for the class to learn from the work that others have done, and to get immediate feedback on their report. Individual contribution to team activities counts towards the mark for this assessment.

PREREQUISITES: This course has no prerequisites.

IMPORTANT BOOK

Burkus, D. 2014, The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas, John Wiley & Sons, San Francisco, CA. (This can be accessed online through the UniSA Library – a link is on the Learnonline website)

OTHER ENTREPRENEURSHIP COURSES

You may wish to consider:

  • BUSS 3043 Entrepreneurial Enterprises. This introduces you to the world of personal enterprise, and can help you to be more enterprising and entrepreneurial in your daily life, in your work (as an intrapreneur), in building your own business (as a for-profit entrepreneur), and in addressing social problems (as a social entrepreneur).
  • BUSS 3048 Entrepreneurial Commercialisation for New Ventures. This focuses on launching an innovative product or a social innovation into a market when you have very little market information or resources. There is a strong emphasis on the use of electronic media for small enterprise marketing. This course is relevant for most graduates who are more likely to gain employment in small enterprises (rather than in large businesses).

Both courses have prerequisites of 36 points of undergraduate study in any field.

Provisional Timetable, 25 January 2016