MA HE Teaching

(*Subject to condition)

The Programme will provide students with the knowledge and necessary skills to reflect on and develop innovative HE teaching. Students will be able to explore and reconsider their own teaching philosophy and bring into practice professional experience from their field of expertise. As the demand for innovative teaching staff in higher and professional education sectors continues to grow the MA HE Teaching will provide teachers and lecturers with an expertise in the delivery and the use of a wide range of HE teaching methodologies.

Students will develop strategic knowledge essential for transforming their professional skills into HE teaching strategies. The student-centred approach adopted on the programme will enable students to develop and review high quality teaching skills and practices.

The Programme’s aim is to attract a wide variety of students who have been through the teaching process of planning, delivering and assessing at colleges, universities and professional institutions in the UK and overseas.

Programme Structure

The programme is composed of 4 taught modules and a Dissertation (180 M credits in total) to be completed in a period of 12 months on a full-time basis or on full-time block basis or 24 months on a part-time basis. All the modules are compulsory. The programme will be based on four 30 credit modules and a 60 credit dissertation.

The four modules are:

• Innovatively Teaching in HE
• Teaching Strategies in HE
• Designing Curriculum & Assessment for HE
• Culture, Values and Ethics in HE Teaching

Innovatively Teaching in HE

This module will explore the fundamentals of planning, differentiating instruction and transformative learning enabling students to expand on theories and professional practices. Students will develop contemporary knowledge, skills and attitudes required for effective planning and preparation of HE learning experiences. Students will consider systematic approaches to improving learning sessions and programmes. Students will cross-examine the changing and contested nature of some aspects of higher and professional education.

This module will focus on the following topics:

- Teaching Fundamentals
- Differentiation Instructions
- Transformative Learning
- Leadership and Change

Teaching Strategies in HE

This module will enable students to explore effective teaching and learning strategies encouraging critical reflection and evaluation through an evidence-based approach to pedagogical practice and continuing professional development. They will analyse the impact of different methodologies and teaching philosophies.

This module will focus on the following topics:

- Teaching Principles
- Teaching Methods
- Teaching Philosophy
- Practice Based Strategies

Designing Curriculum & Assessment for HE

This module will engage students in critiquing the process of curriculum design and development. It provides students the opportunity to examine, explore and integrate a range of practical and theoretical issues relating to course design. It will include: approaches to course design; the development of course aims and objectives; the relationship of learning outcomes to methods of teaching, assessment and evaluation.

This module will focus on the following topics:

- UK Standard Frameworks
- Curriculum Design and Development
- Assessment and Feedback
- Creative Design

Culture, Values and Ethics in HE Teaching

This module will broaden understanding of higher education processes and practices by placing them in a wider context of culture, values and ethics. Students will explore the effect of culture and ethics in teaching and learning practices. The modules will also expand on inter-disciplinary ethics in teaching by looking at people’s views, relativism and tolerance.

This module will focus on the following topics:

- Cross-Culture Capability and Global Perspectives in Education
- Inter-Disciplinary Ethics in Teaching
- Policy and Practive in Higher Education
- Micro Teaching
- Practical Approach to Integrating Culture, Values and Ethics

Research Dissertation

This module will integrate students’ understanding of teaching innovatively, teaching strategies, designing curriculums and assessments, culture, values and ethics in HE teaching. Students plan, undertake and submit a research proposal outlining their research dissertation and reflecting the taught modules of the Programme.

Students will critically review current teaching and learning theory and have the opportunity to investigate UK HE Teaching. Students will also have the opportunity to promote autonomous learning within the boundaries of professional practice encouraging critical scrutiny and wider understanding of the institutional, national and international contextual developments impacting upon higher education.

Course Duration

One Year Full Time
Two Year Part Time