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- Indicative Fee
Home/EU: £5450 Part-Time: £2725
International: £12300 Part-Time: £6150 - Financial support
- Course Tutor(s):Lynne Rogers
- Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time.
- Study Method: Part-time Distance, Full-time, Part-time
- Department: Dept of Lifelong and Comparative Education
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Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education MA
This masters degree will:
- develop your practical teaching skills
- increase your understanding of the issues and factors which affect learning in higher and professional education
- allow you to reflect on key underlying educational philosophies, pedagogy and your academic experience in order to enhance your professional practice
- give you the opportunity to undertake a small-scale research project
- address nationally agreed professional standards.
Features
This masters degree provides the opportunity to:
- be eligible for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) as a route to becoming a Registered Practitioner (completion of set modules applies)
- build on the Professional Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education.
Who is this programme for?
Lecturers and other professionals working in further, higher or professional education.
Entry requirements
A good first degree or equivalent. You should currently be employed in an appropriate educational or professional institution, since the programme requires practical work within a teaching or training context, and elements of the assessment framework are also strongly related to your employment context.
How are you assessed?
By coursework assignments (including a portfolio of practice), practical activities and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.
Attendance
Face-to-face evening sessions, and one-, two- and three-day workshops.
Core modules
- Advanced Course in University and Professional Teaching
- Assessing Learning
- Designing Courses and Curricula
- Developing Supervisory and Professional Practice
- Improving Lecturing
- Incorporating ICT into Teaching/Training Practice in Higher and Professional Education
- Innovation and Change in Higher and Professional Education
- Learning and Teaching for Adults
- Learning in Small Groups
Recommended modules
- Assessing Learning
- Designing Courses and Curricula
- Developing Supervisory and Professional Practice
- Education for the Professions
- Improving Lecturing
- Incorporating ICT into Teaching/Training Practice in Higher and Professional Education
- Innovation and Change in Higher and Professional Education
- Learning and Teaching for Adults
- Learning in Small Groups
- Understanding Education Research