Higher And Professional Education PG Cert

The Postgraduate Certificate in Higher and Professional Education (PgCHPE) is structured into two discrete modules; typical content for these modules is indicated in the Course content section. As the programme is dynamic, it will reflect continuous change in the Higher and Professional Education arena, and will change in response to the emergence of new contemporary topics, and the availability of new technology supported learning tools.
Facilitating Learning module – sample programme
Introduction to Constructive alignment
Learning theories and Learner Centred approaches
Supporting Diverse Learners
Effective Communication and Resource Share
Learning Styles and Characteristics
Motivation and Problem-based Learning
Teaching Models and Styles of delivery
Personal tutoring
Feedback and Assessment
Micro-teach
Reflection and Evaluation
Assignment Workshop
Innovation and Contemporary Practice – sample programme
The Changing context of HE: Technology, innovation and change
Assistive technologies - JISC workshop
Student experience: student voice; Twitter and Qualtrics
Mobile technologies; bring your own device
Student interactions with learning spaces: psycho-geography and virtual worlds
Flipped classrooms
Assignment workshop
Employer Panel
The 3 Es: employability, enterprise and entrepreneurialism; Partnership working and the curriculum
Disruptive innovations: MOOCs
External forces – strategic priorities
Impact for staff – implications for practice
The PgCHPE consists of 2x30 credit modules, “Facilitating Learning” and “Innovation and Contemporary Practice”. New participants are welcome to start the course at the beginning of either module. It is intended that the course will be run following the pattern illustrated above.
During the Facilitating Learning module, we will consider the diverse motivations and approaches to learning of individual learners, and the implications for effective for teaching, learning and assessment. You will be involved in the peer observation of teaching and will gain feedback on your own approaches.
During the Innovation and Contemporary Practice module, we will consider the key features of the changing context of HE, exploring topics such as the student experience, the learning environment and employability. We will also examine technology supported learning and the use of relevant tools within our own environments.
Each module lasts for four months, and it is intended that participants will complete the course within a twelve month period. This distribution of the modules over one academic year will allow you sufficient time to transfer the learning of knowledge, skills and techniques into your own disciplinary practice. It will also provide sufficient opportunity for your learning to be consolidated through discussion and feedback with subject-related mentors. In this way the course will strive to connect centrally driven content about the scholarship of learning and teaching with your own practice within their subject/professional domains.
Specific content and delivery profiles will be contained within module guides, which will be made available and explained as you progress through the course. Module descriptors can be found at http://www.staffs.ac.uk/current/student/modules/.
Both modules are available as 30 credit level 7 Certificates of CPD. This means that if you successfully pass one module, and do not continue with the subsequent module, you will qualify for a Certificate of CPD, as follows:
Certificate of CPD: Facilitating Learning Award
Certificate of CPD: Innovation and Contemporary Practice Award