PgCert in Blended Learning (Blended)

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PgCert in Blended Learning (Blended)

Southampton Solent University
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This PgCert in Blended Learning creates a specifically designed learning opportunity for prospective students from teaching, learning support or other specialist backgrounds, who are involved with the delivery of, or supporting of, teaching and learning, using online tools and blended learning. The course aims to provide a means to inform and develop present and future practice and gain credit for it at Masters Level (level 7).

The course has received the SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association)awards for Supporting Learning with Technology for Developing the Online Learning Experience unit, and the Embedding Learning Technologies award for the Embedding Blended Learning Techno…

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This PgCert in Blended Learning creates a specifically designed learning opportunity for prospective students from teaching, learning support or other specialist backgrounds, who are involved with the delivery of, or supporting of, teaching and learning, using online tools and blended learning. The course aims to provide a means to inform and develop present and future practice and gain credit for it at Masters Level (level 7).

The course has received the SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association)awards for Supporting Learning with Technology for Developing the Online Learning Experience unit, and the Embedding Learning Technologies award for the Embedding Blended Learning Technologies unit.

This means the course should be attractive to providers of further and higher education.

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Course structure

The first part of the course involves a compulsory unit that discusses and evaluates the current issues around learning technology enabling students to gain a critical understanding as to how they may productively use technology to develop the student learning experience. As this unit progresses students will start to form the ideas for the project that underpins the second unit of study and create an outline proposal. This will allow students to use the summer period to work on developing the learning materials they intend to use with students. They will be supported in developing their project plan through an introductory session from the Embedding Blended Learning Technologies unit team at this time.

In October it is anticipated that students’ projects will enter an active phase and the unit team will provide supervision and support through both group meetings and online discussion groups in this term. It is an important part of the assessment of this unit that the student makes a constructive reflection and evaluation as to what has been learnt from the virtual learning methods used and so the use of diaries will be encouraged.

The programme therefore has a simple structure which enables students to work from an initial understanding of blended learning to completion of and reflection on learning materials they have developed.

Course content

Developing the On-Line Learning Experience
As part of this students will produce an outline of the project

Embedding Blended Learning Technologies
Students will work on the necessary development of course materials to underpin the project

Project Report (40% weighted) and reflection (60% weighted) Assessment

Participants will be asked to demonstrate a high level of understanding of the needs of students and of ways to support them in online learning activities. The first unit will require a review of the literature on blended learning and consider critically students’ learning needs. The second part will be to create a plan to introduce and support elements of an online activity with a group of students, which will need to be critically reviewed and justified.

The implementation together with academic learning is intended to be assessed in the second unit and will be assessed in a manner appropriate to demonstrate the embedding of the blended learning under consideration. This may be by way of a 30 minute presentation including slides and/or demonstration of the technology supported by a written log, journal or report. This will be accompanied by a short written piece of work. The second piece of assessment should predominately be a reflective evaluation of practice which relates to pedagogic studies in this area. The starting point is to evaluate the outcomes from the first assessment but it should also have the breadth to include and evaluate alternatives.

Attendance

Monthly, on Wednesday’s 5.30-8pm, timetable available on registration. The course has a January start date.

Each unit will have 10 hours of face to face delivery, which in the case of the project will include supervision. The rest of the course will be delivered via the VLE through a mix of online forums, digitised materials with questions to aid review, podcasts etc to structure and support student learning.

Fees

Fees for the 2013/14 academic year are:

UK and EU students: £3,000 per year or £750 per unit.

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