Are you teaching or supporting learning in further or higher education and interested in exploring technologies that can enhance and nurture your students’ learning? Or are you in a public or private sector training context seeking to update or develop new skills and strategies in eLearning?

This newly streamlined 2 year PT MSc Applied eLearning programme on offer at the DIT Learning, Teaching and Technology Centre is open to a wide range of professionals in the field of eLearning. This programme lets you explore in depth the issues you encounter through your daily work in technology-based education and training, along with the possibility to further your qualifications.

There is now direct entry to the programme with an honours degree, or its equivalent. Through a Professional Practice module, your previous valuable experience of eLearning from your context and practice is being taken into account as part of the entry process to the programme.
Therefore your employment or other educational experience can now provide evidence of intellectual ability. This also offers the chance to think in advance about a route through the programmes that is fully aligned with your own professional development requirements.

Programme Highlights:
In Year 1, choose from a range of exciting optional modules: academic enterprise, strategic and project management, supporting virtual communities, academic writing and graduate conference presentation; So, depending on which programme options you choose to pursue, you will have the opportunity to learn how to formulate an institutional/organisational strategy for eLearning, how to nurture online participation skills in your learners or how to better support your learners in their academic writing and publishing pursuits.

In Year 2, through an applied research project, there is the prospect of researching specialist interests; instead of a thesis, you write a journal article to accompany the applied project, which in today’s research-oriented environment, is a more direct and popular form of dissemination of your work.

With a new Graduate Student Conference integrated into the programme, you can link in with fellow participants across both Masters programmes who are researching innovative and creative ideas in both Learning and eLearning. Indeed, over the 2 years, there are occasions to network with peers in the field nationally and internationally.

A wide variety of technologies are available to explore for your
context: while each module is based in the virtual learning environment Webcourses, you will also have the chance to use other technologies such as blogs and wikis, online assessment tools, Second Life and chatrooms as part of your study.

The programme has blended delivery so that you can fit your study around your work and other commitments; alongside interactive face-to-face tutorials and workshops, you will be engaging and reflecting with your fellow participants and tutors in a fully supported, collaborative and vibrant virtual learning environment. With access to the internet, the programme offers flexibility to meet the busy schedules of today’s academics & practitioners, and you will be able to study at the times and in the places which suit you best.

The programme is aimed at those with no specialist computer skills.
Although some modules do teach practical skills in building courses in a virtual learning environment and in web page creation, for example, its focus is on the educational aspects of learning technology use. You should, however, have basic computer skills to the level of feeling confident in accessing the internet, downloading and managing files, and installing software on your computer.

Course Code: DT580
Qualification/Level: MSc Applied eLearning
Mode of study: Part Time / Blended Delivery
Duration: Minimum of 2 Years
Location: DIT, 14 Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2
Programme Timetable: Tuesdays, 10am - 1pm

Closing date for applications:

Programme Start Date: The next start date is September 2010

Details on how to apply and the application form can be found here