Enhanced Practice in Enterprise in Education

PROGRAMME DESIGN

The programme is comprised of three compulsory courses:

• Enterprise - Principles, Practice and Contexts (15 credits)
• Enterprising Thinking (15 credits)
• Designing Learning in Enterprise in Education (30 credits)

TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT

Our programme is available in full e-learning mode. However, additional face to face contact sessions may be possible where local circumstances and arrangements allow. Participants are encouraged to be active and reflective learners and great emphasis is placed on professional action in the workplace setting. Our programme challenges participants to direct their own professional growth, as they set and achieve new standards of enhanced professionalism and academic achievement.

Formative assessment is a feature of all modules. Formative and Summative assessments are designed to arise naturally in the workplace and from course work. Most assessment tasks focus on workplace applications and/or critical reflection on policy and practice. Each module is assessed by a set assignment.

AIMS

The aims of the programme are to extend the skills, knowledge and understanding of the participants by giving them opportunities to:

• Explore critically the values, purposes and principles surrounding enterprising approaches to learning.
• Review and appraise critically the contribution that team-working, decision making, creative thinking, problem solving, risk taking, reviewing and evaluating, peer and self assessing can make to the development of Enterprise in Education.
• Identify, explore and evaluate opportunities to develop these skills and approaches across the curriculum.
• Review and appraise critically policy and research literature as a preparation for taking enterprising approaches to the development of the curriculum and practice.
• Critically review policy, research and practice in order to identify, plan, implement, evaluate, quality assure and report on an innovative project in the area of Enterprise in Education.