Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

The module will aim to:

• enable students to better understand the potential role that technology can play in the teaching and learning process
• enable students to survey the main technology-based formats available to support learning and to identify how schools have adopted and accommodated these formats and to what effect
• enable students to explore their own personal use of technology for learning and investigate emerging patterns and issues.

Outline Of Syllabus

In this module students will critically examine a range of issues concerning the changing role of technology in education including:

• Mobile learning;
• The use of gaming technology in education;
• Minimally invasive education and self-organised learning environments;

These themes integrate the material – using a variety of case studies to provide a central narrative encouraging critical appraisal and curiosity.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

To build on:
• The knowledge and understanding from EDU2002 concerning examples of best practice in innovation and entrepreneurship in education in different countries around the world.

To develop:
• Knowledge and understanding of the key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats relating to the increasing use of technology in education.
• An understanding of the potential to develop education outside of the typical school environment that helps to meet the changing needs of children across the developing world.

Intended Skill Outcomes

• Be able to critically evaluate arguments and evidence from a range of primary and secondary sources.
• Be able to work with others in group situations and articulate ideas and arguments to an audience.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

This module will examine the changing role of technology in education in different countries around the world and will introduce the different concepts, actors and thinkers in this particular field It uses the formal lectures to provide an initial guide to impart this knowledge via interactive sessions. Weekly seminars are employed to allow smaller group discussion and activities which enable critical engagement with key themes, concepts and frameworks. Students also participate in planning and facilitating group presentations in seminars. Together, the lectures and seminars provide the basis through which advanced study of the complex role of education in international development can take place. Combined with the lectures and seminars, weekly drop-in tutorials with the students will be offered to provide extra support as and when necessary. These tutorials will invite students to reflect on their own learning practices, leading them to consider the areas they need further support and guidance.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The assessment strategy is through oral presentation and writing assignments. These forms of assessments will allow the student to display the practical skills they have learned. Some forms of assessment are more appropriate to illustrating the skill of critical evaluation (such as the written assignments) whereas the capacity to define and formulate research problems, questions and hypotheses pertinent to international development and education issues may be best illustrated using oral presentations or written reports.

General Notes

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