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ED553B: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:38


Course Overview

This course is designed to expand participants’ sense of their wider learning and teaching activities through examining critical issues that are facing higher education currently. The course explores the wider corporate, political and social contexts in which higher education operates, introducing participants to some of the latest research and thinking on learning and teaching. An underpinning principle of the course is to develop participants’ ability to formulate pedagogic enquiry to evaluate learning and teaching activities, and lay foundations for participation in education research. This course is aligned with the UK Professional Standards Framework for Learning & Teaching in H.E.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Darren Comber

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Education (ED) (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Research-teaching linkages. Frontiers of technology: implications for learning & teaching. Political contexts of higher education. Ownership of learning Communities of scholarship Re-examining theories of learning

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1x3000 word project report (50%), 1x3000 word report (50%)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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