Postgraduate Course: An introduction to digital environments for learning (EDUA11222)

Course Outline
School	Moray House School of Education	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	This course is aimed at teachers, developers and other practitioners within post-compulsory education who wish to develop both their understanding of the effects of the online mode on educational theory and practice, and their skills in creating and supporting high quality online learning opportunities for their students. It will give participants the opportunity to engage hands-on with digital learning environments, provide them with structured access to a community of peers and expert tutors, offer practical guidance on the effective use of new technologies for learning, and also explore some of the cultural and contextual issues which define 'elearning' as a vibrant field of study. On completion of the course, participants will have gained a broad overview of how online learning has become a key issue in higher education, what digital environments can offer in terms of the delivery and support of learning programmes, and how the educational project is affected by our engagement in this mode of teaching. Participants will gain first-hand experience of working individually and collaboratively in a formal online-learning programme, will have the opportunity to design their own learning resources, and will have the chance to engage with and debate some of the key ideas about elearning emerging from current research. Students from outwith the Digital Education programme wishing to enrol for this course or take it on a 'class only' basis must liaise directly with the course secretary before enrolling.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Course Start Date	18/09/2017
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 400 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6, Online Activities 30, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10, Formative Assessment Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 336 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Part 1 (60%): Creation and maintenance throughout the course of a reflective blog, including some structured tasks. Part 2 (40%): Production of an assignment relating to an area covered by the course. Participants define their own specific topic. Participants will be encouraged to explore alternative forms of literacy in its presentation (for example hypertext or wiki essays).
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Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Course Start Date	15/01/2018
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 400 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6, Online Activities 30, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10, Formative Assessment Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 336 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Part 1 (60%): Creation and maintenance throughout the course of a reflective blog, including some structured tasks. Part 2 (40%): Production of an assignment relating to an area covered by the course. Participants define their own specific topic. Participants will be encouraged to explore alternative forms of literacy in its presentation (for example hypertext or wiki essays).
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course students will be able to: critically evaluate a range of technologies in terms of their impact on teaching and learning begin to design their own online learning resources, activities and environments contextualise their own practice in terms of the key issues emerging from current research in the fields associated with e-learning demonstrate an advanced ability to reflect on the experience of being an online learner, and of the applicability of a range of e-learning approaches to theirown professional teaching context synthesise their understanding of the impact of the digital on academic knowledge and its dissemination by exploring various digital media for the presentation of their final assignment.

Reading List
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Additional Information
Course URL	http://digital.education.ed.ac.uk
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information	The course is delivered entirely online, with no on-campus class sessions.
Keywords	e-learning, digital, online, learning