Postgraduate Certificate in Learning Design and Teaching Innovation

The course designed for academic professionals teaching adults at FHEQ levels 4-8 in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Aims of the programme The course is designed to equip participants with the KSBs necessary to promote innovative practice in learning design, teaching, and assessment and evaluation in their specialist discipline in the workplace. In addition, the Postgraduate Certificate will enhance the career development of academic professionals by promoting disciplinary, pedagogical and technological skills appropriate to teaching adults either in-person, online or by utilising a blended mode of delivery. It will also create an inclusive community where academic professionals can share good practice across divergent forms of adult and workplace teaching and learning. Educational aims promote participants’ knowledge and understanding of how adults learn drawing on abroad range of pedagogical research and theory both in the specialist discipline and education studies more generally; develop advanced skills in learner-centred educational design, drawing on appropriate pedagogical research, including session, syllabus and/or curriculum design strategies; develop and critically explore teaching styles, strategies and methods capable of enhancing students’ learning in the specialist discipline appropriate to face-to-face,blended and/or online sessions; critically examine principles and methods of assessment and evaluation in the specialist discipline capable of improving students’ learning experiences and educational outcomes; conduct small-scale research in the specialist discipline examining how innovations in learning design, teaching practice and assessment/evaluation might improve students’ learning experiences and educational outcomes; demonstrate commitment to the core values and practices of an academic professional, which have been developed through reflective practice and are expressed in a personal philosophy of teaching and learning.

Applicants are normally expected to hold a 2.1 degree or higher from a UK university or an equivalent from an overseas university in a relevant subject.