This Melbourne MicroCert is particularly valuable for early to mid-career intelligence officers and analysts, but learning is beneficial for any analyst or professional seeking the skills to meet the growing expectation that professionals understand how misinformation and disinformation can impact an organisation.

To enrol in this course, you are expected to have a bachelors degree or an equivalent level of professional work experience in a relevant field, such as intelligence analysis or strategic communications.

This highly practical course has been developed in close consultation with industry, to ensure your learning matches contemporary industry need.

Throughout the course, you'll hear from practising industry professionals and receive guidance from experts in the field.

You'll work on projects that simulate real-world situations and gain core open-source analysis skills that can be applied immediately within your current role or organisation.

By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of current best practices in recognising, assessing and countering disinformation online. You'll be able to:

• Assess disinformation and its impact using best open-source intelligence analysis practices
• Use awareness of strategies and techniques used to persuade audiences to counter disinformation in the new information technology ecosystem.

This course runs for four weeks, including two weeks of guided learning and two weeks to complete assessment tasks.

Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:

• 7.5 hours guided learning
• 14.5 self-directed learning
• 20 hours for assessment tasks.

Assessment:

• Report or presentation (80%) plus an annotated bibliography (20%) that analyses, assesses and counters disinformation in an area relevant to your own professional context.

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Recognising and Managing Disinformation Melbourne MicroCert. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your Melbourne MicroCert digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.

This course includes guided and self-directed learning, providing both flexibility and support.

Learning is project-based to ensure you gain practical skills that can be applied directly to your own professional role. You'll use relevant industry case studies, expert videos and readings to better understand the impacts of disinformation and how it can be identified and managed.

You'll also contribute to online discussion boards alongside industry peers, and receive indispensable guidance and feedback from our expert course facilitators as you learn.

This Melbourne MicroCert will expire five years after the date of issue as particular knowledge or skills may need to be refreshed.