MA Education

Program Overview

The MA Education Online program is designed for professionals in higher education, offering a part-time, online format to enhance teaching practices and support student learning. Through a combination of modules and a dissertation, it covers a range of learning, teaching, and assessment methods, as well as research methodologies. The program aims to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge to progress into senior roles in education or pursue careers in research, policy, or administration.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The MA Education Online degree is a part-time, online program designed for individuals working in higher and further education, training, development, or coaching. It aims to enhance educational practice and effectively support students. The program is rooted in professional experience and covers a wide range of learning, teaching, and assessment methods, materials, and technologies.

Objectives:

The MA Education Online degree aims to help students:

• Evaluate and apply a range of learning, teaching, and assessment methods for face-to-face and online delivery, with large and small groups of students.
• Use learning technologies to develop effective learning materials, environments, and support systems.
• Use an innovative range of assessment techniques to support learning and enable students to monitor their own progress.
• Reflect critically on the particular challenges of learning, teaching, and assessment in their subject discipline.
• Inform their learning and teaching practice through consideration of wider contextual policy, strategy, and quality considerations.
• Engage effectively with research and scholarship in their subject discipline.
• Develop transferable skills, professional skills, and attributes.
• Use a range of self, peer, and student evaluation techniques to monitor their own learning and teaching practice and to underpin their reflective practice.
• Produce a Professional Reflection, which records and plans further personal and professional development, and takes responsibility for the continued development of their own learning.

Outline:

Program Structure:

The program is offered in three parts:

• Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education (PGCHE): Part-time over 9 months (Year 1)
• Postgraduate Diploma Higher Education (PGDipHE): Part-time over 15 months (Year 1 and Year 2)
• MA Education: Part-time over 24 months (Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3)

Year 1:

• Two compulsory modules:
• The Fundamentals of Teaching in Higher Education (30 credits)
• Professional Practice and the Wider Context of Teaching and Learning (30 credits)

Year 2:

• Compulsory module:
• Research Methodologies (30 credits)
• Optional modules (choose one):
• Curriculum Design and Development (Digital) (30 credits)
• Widening Participation and Inclusive Practice (30 credits)
• Work-based Learning (Apprenticeship and Employability) (30 credits)

Year 3:

• Dissertation: A 15,000-word dissertation will be completed in the final academic year (60 credits)

Course Start Dates:

• September 2024
• February 2025

Assessment:

• Portfolio
• A literature review
• 5000-word assignment, or equivalent
• Reflective critical commentary
• Oral presentations
• Dissertation of 15,000 words

Teaching:

• The program is delivered online, with dedicated online lecturers.
• Learning materials include guidance for each module, ebook core texts, podcasts, presentations, articles to read, a discussion board, and a wiki.

Careers:

• The program can help students progress into more senior roles in their field.
• It can also provide the skills and knowledge needed to pursue careers in education research, policy, or administration.

Other:

• The program is designed to fit around existing work and teaching commitments.
• Students will be provided with all learning materials.
• The program is part of the University of Law's online learning program, which has been in operation for over three decades.
• The University of Law has a global network of alumni, with over 100,000 alumni in more than 11,800 organizations and over 155 countries.
• The University of Law has an overall 5 Star rating from QS World University Rankings and 5 stars in Teaching, Employability, Online Learning, Academic Development, and Inclusiveness.

2024/25 Course Fee (for courses starting on or after 1 July 2024) MA Education: £13,150 Postgraduate Diploma Higher Education (PGDipHE): £8,800 Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education (PGCHE): £4,450