MEd Digital Pedagogy
Master
Online
Description
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Type
Master
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
Flexible
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Start date
September
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Online campus
Yes
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Personal tutor
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
This MEd Digital Pedagogy course is designed to support the professional development of individuals working in education and training at either tertiary or higher education level, specifically in the contemporary digital environment. The intention is to strengthen and enhance participants' understanding of digital educational issues, whilst raising their professional profiles.
You will be encouraged to discuss and analyse information from a wide range of theoretical perspectives and apply them to your own professional practice. This will be focused especially on teaching and learning in the digital environment and you will be critically analysing and creating digital educational resources. You will have the opportunity to focus your studies on an area of professional educational interest, whilst developing research skills and an understanding of ethical principles in higher education.
The course can help you to make changes in your professional practice that can have a positive impact on you and on your learners.
Facilities
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Start date
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About this course
+ Honours degree or above
+ You must be in employment in education or training
+ Candidates without academic qualifications but with experience of appropriate professional or administrative responsibility will be considered on an individual basis.
+ The course is available to study part-time online, through the university’s virtual learning environment (VLE), enabling you to fit your studies around your personal and professional commitments
+ Option for a face-to-face induction which, although not compulsory, is highly recommended
+ Reflective learning is at the heart of this course, allowing you to use your learning to enhance your professional practice
+ You can choose to study individual modules for continuing professional development (CPD), or work towards the PgCert, PgDip, or full masters degree
+ If you are member of staff or a postgraduate research student of the University of the Highlands and Islands, and are practicing in relation to higher education learning and teaching, you will be eligible to use your work on the PgCert to achieve Associate Fellow or Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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Subjects
- Digital
- Pedagogy
- Digital Pedagogy
- Tertiary
- Higher Education
- Education
- Qualitative inquiry
- Quantitative research
- Research
Teachers and trainers (1)
UHI Academic staff in partners
teacher
Course programme
Please see MEd Digital Pedagogy (uhi.ac.uk) for the course curriculum.
PgCert
You will study the following core modules:
- Creating digital educational resources
- Digital literacy and open education
- Theory and practice of eLearning
PgDip
You will study three of the following modules:
- Mixed methods and action research
- Qualitative inquiry
- Quantitative research and data analysis
- Research methods and techniques
- Teaching and learning in tertiary and higher education
MEd
To achieve the award of MEd Digital Pedagogy, you must complete a research dissertation.
Additional information
https://uhi.ac.uk/en/courses/med-digital-pedagogy/#tabanchor
MEd Digital Pedagogy
