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LEARNING AND TEACHING VIA THE INTERNET
AN ACTION RESEARCH, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MASTERS COURSE
If you or your colleagues are interested in learning about the use of the
Internet and Information and Communication Technologies for training,
develoment and education, you might want to find out about an innovatory
Master in Education degree programme in NETWORKED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
which is being offered by the Department of Educational Studies,
University of Sheffield, UK.
The two year professional development course is aimed at anyone in the
School, FE, HE, adult education sectors, and trainers and developers in
public and private sector organisations.
The course is part-time and is run largely via the Internet. It will
provide you with a comprehensive grounding in the use of networked
learning in your professional practice. The focus is on learning about the
new information and communication technologies; designing online
learning;developing learning communities, and learning how to work with
online groups of collaborative learners.
The processes of the course are largely collaborative with a wide choice
of focus-areas by participants. We try to foster a sense of sharing and
community on the course. For much of the time, you work in small, action
research online learning sets led by a tutor with a major focus on issues
and problems that you define of relevance to your professional practice
and development, which are investigated by you for your course
assignments. This helps to link theory with your practice in a reflective
and critical way. In Year Two, you carry out an action research
dissertation project on an issue relating to your professional practice.
Assessment is collaborative (self/peer/tutor).
Please visit our Web site for further details, where there is also an
email address for direct contact with a member of staff :
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/csnl/
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Vic Lally
Lecturer in Education
Higher Education Research Centre (HERC) &
Centre for the Study of Networked Learning (CSNL)
Department of Educational Studies University of Sheffield
388 Glossop Road Sheffield S10 2JA
tel +44 (0)114 222 8136 (direct line); +44 (0)870 054 7400 (personal fax)
+44 (0)114 279 6236 (office fax)
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