伦敦大学教育学院

The Education and Technology MA is based at UCL’s Knowledge Lab, a ground-breaking research centre that uses the latest evidence to design and implement innovative educational technology and pedagogies that shape the future of education and learning. Supported by scientists from a wide range of fields including education, sociology and computer science, you will develop the skills to design, use and critically appraise ‘EdTech’ across a wide range of settings.

About this degree

This multi-disciplinary programme brings together students from a wide range of fields to explore the ways in which educational theory can be applied to the design, development, implementation and research of learning technologies. As such

educators learn to incorporate new technologies into their practice,
developers bring concepts and evidence from learning sciences into the design and evaluation of technologies, and
aspiring researchers build the skills for an academic career in this fast-moving field.

Optional modules include topic areas such as learning design, design thinking, artificial intelligence and learning analytics, among others.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

Teaching and learning

Teaching is delivered through lectures and podcasts (for the distance learning students), individual and group work, student presentations and group discussions of reading and writing undertaken in preparation for sessions, both online and face-to-face. Some modules require regular weekly student collaboration in and outside the classroom, and it is thus expected that students who sign up for these can sustain the pace of this work.

Most modules are assessed by written assignments (essays) but some include group-work projects and practicals.

Careers

Recent graduates of this programme have gone on to work as heads of ICT at UK and international schools, education consultants e.g. for a UK multi-academy trust, an ICT trainer at a university in Nigeria, a lecturer and instructional designer at a university in Taiwan, and PhD students or research assistants at the UCL Institute of Education. Other graduates are established entrepreneurs or working as educators, university learning technologists, government education researchers, designers or developers of educational technology, consultants, and PR and marketing managers in the EdTech sector.

Employability

The Education and Technology MA is highly regarded within education and industry. Graduates from our programme have gone on to develop their careers in the education sector as senior teachers, learning technologists, consultants, education researchers, and to undertake PhD research. Several entrepreneurs have chosen this masters to bring concepts from the learning sciences to create evidence-informed learning technologies.