Core modules

• Access and Widening Participation in Post-compulsory Education

  This module is designed to address the issues related to the process of promoting access to and participation in Further, Higher and Adult Education by those groups within society who have not traditionally taken full advantage of the educational opportunities on offer.

• Developing Assessment for Learning

  This module is designed to help practitioners become critically aware of the range of strategies available to them and of the need to promote assessment strategies which are reliable, fair and valid.

• Effective Electronic Learning Facilitation (Independent Learning Module)

  This module enables students to relate the pedagogy of e-learning to their own field of study, by exploring theoretical issues and the practical implications involved in electronic learning.

• Learning and Teaching Using Learning Technologies

  This module will enable colleagues to build on developments in learning technologies by providing them with the opportunity to explore the context and issues of the pedagogy of flexible electronic learning including supported learning via the internet.

• Research Methodology for Learning and Teaching

  The module examines diverse approaches to educational research and explores research ethics, methodologies, methods and design.

• Independent Learning Module

  This module offers students the opportunity to broaden or deepen their understanding of a given relevant topic through undertaking a programme of negotiated learning and independent study.

• Online Learning and Learners

  This module is designed to explore online learning and the experiences of online learners, drawing on evidence and experience gained in the field. The module looks in-depth at the underpinning theories and rationales behind online learning.

• Online Learning: Tutoring and Facilitation

  This module is designed to explore effective practice in online tutoring and facilitation drawing on evidence and experience gained in the field.

• Postgraduate Supervision

  As well as enabling HE practitioners to reflect on their practice and consider the contested conceptual frameworks underpinning the role of the supervisor, this module will provide opportunity to articulate and gain recognition for supervisors' work.

• The Changing Policy Context of Further, Adult and Higher Education

  Change that emanates from the wider policy context, affects practitioners in the post-compulsory sector. Practitioners need an understanding of these changes so that they may not only be involved, critically, in the implementation of change, but also be able to contribute to internal policy development and change.

• Investigating Education Through Research

  This module provides the basis for students? work on the MA Learning and Teaching pathways with the intention of developing their thinking with regard to evidence-informed educational practices through research.

• Postgraduate Major Project

  This project enables students to demonstrate the ability to raise significant and meaningful questions in relation to their specialism/area of enquiry which may involve working at the current limits of theoretical and/or research understanding.