What is this programme about?
This MA in Teaching and Learning programme aims to provide a structured, integrated programme for developing high level, evidence-based competence in teaching, learning and scholarship within third level, further education, post primary and primary sectors. The programme aims to provide participants with the skills, knowledge and competencies to design, teach, assess and evaluate educational programmes and to enable them to become professional, reflective practitioners.
It will also equip graduates for roles in academic leadership and/or research supervision. The flexible delivery of the programme offers learners the possibility of studying stand-alone modules right up to completing the full MA in Teaching and Learning.
What will I be able to do when I finish this programme?
On completion of this programme, students should be able to:
Critically analyse current theories and research in teaching, learning and assessment practices and policies in higher education;
Assess, select and evaluate the use of varied teaching and assessment strategies, including the integration of digital technologies to ensure effective teaching practices and enhance student engagement;
Synthesise pedagogical research with discipline-based expertise to enhance models of higher education practice and the design of education programmes for diverse learners;
Apply the reflective practitioner model in order to identify and promote improvements to own practice, whilst demonstrating professionalism and high ethical standards;
Demonstrate initiative and leadership skills in working with peers and other educators and the wider community in designing curricula, leading programmes and/or conducting research supervision in diverse educational settings;
Evaluate the wider social, political and economic environment within which the teaching professional operates;
Demonstrate reflectivity and creativity in the interpretation and application of concepts, methods and approaches to teaching, learning and assessment;
Develop knowledge and expertise in the use of appropriate research methods in higher education and use these to research practice and make a contribution to knowledge;
Design and execute an independent, critical, and reflective professional investigation which examines the relationship between theory and practice, adopting the most appropriate research methods to address and analyse the identified issues.
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Exam Information
Modules completed in Term 1 will, where applicable, be examined in early December 2017. Modules completed in Term 2 will, where applicable, be examined in May 2018.
Fees
Students taking Level 6, 7 or 8 courses of 1 year duration or longer where course fees are 2,290 and who opt to pay full course fees by Saturday 2nd September 2017 will be eligible to benefit from the 300 discounted fee of 1,990.
For programmes where fees exceed 2,290 the appropriate fee payment regulation information is available from the faculty for Lifelong Learning.
(a) Course fees are expected to be paid in full at the commencement of the course. IT Carlow recognises that some students may have difficulties in paying the full amount in one transaction thus the Lifelong Learning Centre has created a number of fee payment by instalment options. All such applications will be treated in confidence. In general, fee payment by instalment applications will only be considered for fees in excess of 1,000.
Students who apply for and are granted a fee payment by installment plan should note that failure to meet the payment dates set down for their payment scheme, in particular key dates, may:
be denied access to Blackboard
be prevented from sitting examinations in December, May or August as applicable
have all other assignment / exam results withheld until payments are made
assignments will not be accepted nor will a late submission for an assignment be accepted after late payments are made
pay an additional surcharge.
(b) Students in receipt of employer sponsorship etc. will be required to submit a letter of confirmation of commitment to pay from their employer of funding body. They must also include a Purchase Order Number for invoice purposes. Where fees have not been paid by the sponsor within thirty days after issue of the invoice, it is the responsibility of the student to then pay the fee and claim back fees from their sponsor.
(c) Repeat students will be required to pay relevant examination fee when applying to sit the repeat.
(d) The Faculty for Lifelong Learning has a strict policy in relation to Refund of Course Fees and a fees refund or a percentage of same will only be given in the following circumstances:
A full refund will be given if requested in writing before the commencement of the course.
Where a student leaves within two weeks of the start of a short course (10-13 weeks), 70% refund of the course fee will apply. Outside this two week period there will be no refund of fees.
For long courses i.e. those of one-year duration or longer, a percentage of fees refund will be given over the first nine weeks of the course as per table 1. Thereafter there will be no refund of fees.
The refund calculation is based on the full fee for the course not the amount that a student may have paid under a fees payment installment agreement.
The fees refund calculation is based on the date that the student formally applies in writing to withdraw from the course.
All courses will run subject to sufficient numbers. Where a course has to be cancelled those students who have registered and paid will be refunded in full.
Receipts must be retained and produced when requesting a refund of course fees which must
be applied for on the official refund form.