Creative and Media Education

MA Creative and Media Education (online)

Delivery method: Part-time
Course Reference: MACMED

Course Overview

This course is run by the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice.

The MA Creative & Media Education is an innovative masters course. Using the latest online technologies, it allows you to negotiate study with a personal tutor ensuring that the outcomes are relevant to your needs, allowing you to fashion the course to suit your personal requirements within your own school or college.

The course lasts 18 months and features regular individual tutorials, both face-to face and online with the programme team which includes award-winning government advisor and education reformer Professor Stephen Heppell, OCR Chief Examiner Pete Fraser, associate professor and CEO of Magic Lantern Productions Antony Lilley and associate professor Dr.Jenny Moon (author of Critical Thinking: an exploration of theory and practice).

This teaching is supported by a series of intensive, three day residentials each term involving master classes with leading figures from the creative industries, such as BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Tim Clague, film composer Nathan Johnson (Brick The Brothers Bloom), new media producer Tim Wright and Channel 4 commissioning editor Matt Locke.

Each residential features practical workshops enabling you to develop your skills in, for example, interactive media, (Flash, Dreamweaver) design (Photoshop, Indesign) and broadcast production (camera, editing) etc.

You will draw upon your teaching, classroom projects, and case studies as evidence – thus, your work time contributes to the requirements of the course and what you learn immediately feeds into your teaching practice.

Students from this course have presented their research at national conferences and have published in a variety of publications. Others have gone to develop their ideas for doctoral research projects.