EDED20410  Net Solutions Project

This is the culminating unit in the Professional Doctorate. Students, individually or in a team, will EITHER provide worthwhile and justifiable solutions to a substantial industry-based problem identified by the candidate(s) and their mentors OR in association with mentors, conduct a worthwhile and justifiable survey of a substantial industry-based problem. The candidate must demonstrate skills in:

• Identifying a ‘substantial’ industry-based problem
• Developing an understanding of such an industry-based problem
• Investigating the industry-based problem
• Creating and sustaining a network appropriate for these processes
• Focusing appropriate and timely resources on developing innovative solutions to the industry-based problem
• Reporting, in an appropriate manner, the project and its outcomes to a relevant audience
• Application of appropriate problem-solving and research techniques
• Purposes and outcomes in industry-based Projects
• Managers as researchers and managing problem-based Projects
• Writing and other forms of communication
• Approaches to understanding and studying organisations and their projects
• Readings in problem-solving and investigation