Overview
Revitalise your professional practice with new insights from research.
Are you a practitioner who wishes to advance your skills and competencies at postgraduate level? Gain a specialist qualification at Griffith College which will enable you to support and inform your role and prepare you for leadership in your field.
Why Study Education, Learning and Development at Griffith College?
Do you support adult learners in your workplace? This can be within an organisational setting or a higher education setting e.g. a Learning and Development specialist, a role holder in Human Resources, a trainer etc. or a lecturer in higher education. Do you want to energise your practice with new insights from research? Here are some of the benefits of studying with Griffith College:
You will join a diverse, collaborative, reflective community of educational practitioners who learn from and with each other.
You will engage in the underpinning concepts, theories and best practices associated with the design and implementation of effective learning for all adult learners, and apply these to your own practice.
You will engage in critical reflection of your own practice and other enquiry and research techniques to improve your practice and share learning.
On completion, you will have a specialist postgraduate qualification to support and inform your role, which in turn will prepare you for leadership in your field.
On completion, you will be qualified to teach as a lecturer in higher education or deliver training in your workplace.
Having the Postgraduate Diploma and Special Purpose Certificate embedded in the Master's programme gives students a more flexible pathway to enable them to secure professional qualifications in a way that suits their personal and professional lives.
Course Highlights
Flexible, part-time blended schedule
Delivered via face-to-face workshops on campus, taking place approximately 3 days a month (Fridays and Saturdays), weekly recorded webinars, online mentoring sessions and online drop-in sessions.
Elective specialism allows you to choose modules which align with your individual educational and training needs or career development.
Practical and applied learning approach
Programme team of practitioners from a wide range of education, learning and development roles.
Networking opportunities with fellow practitioners in education, learning and development
Course Details
Learners on the Postgraduate Diploma programme complete the Certificate modules (20 ECTS) in semester one and an additional suite of modules totalling 40 ECTS in semester two and three.
There are five mandatory modules that build on the knowledge and skills developed within the Certificate. Strategic Learning and Development carries 10 ECTS and all other modules are 5 ECTS. This suite of modules builds on the knowledge, skills and competences developed within the Certificate and provides opportunities for consolidating learning in areas such as learning theories within Psychology of Learning and further exploration of principles of inclusion within Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Learners also choose two modules as electives from a current suite of five elective modules in year one, semester two. These electives are offered subject to demand within a particular cohort of participants. This facilitates participants specialising in areas of interest. These modules are banded and scheduled within semester two. A range of teaching, learning and assessment strategies are used so that participants engage in authentic activities such as collaborative group tasks and individual reflective writing.
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Validated by QQI.
NFQ Level 9.
Campus: Dublin Main Campus.