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Learn all about the design, implementation and evaluation of learning and development scenarios in schools and organisations.

How do you make sure that everyone – from primary school children to adults in organisations – gets the development they deserve? In this Master’s, you will learn all about theories of learning and assessment, learning technologies, and learning interventions.

What will you do

From advising organisations to designing instruction materials, this Master’s provides you with hands-on experience through real-life cases. You might design an instruction tool for residents of a retirement home who want to learn how to use a tablet, or you might write an actual advice report for an organisation that wants to implement e-learning tools in its development programmes. In all cases, you will turn scientific insights into meaningful solutions. You get taught by some of the best teachers and researchers in the field, as UT is leading in the field of Educational Science & Technology.

Co-decide the content of your master’s

You have the freedom to customise part of your Master’s in Educational Science & Technology by choosing elective courses that interest you. You can choose between two focus areas: Learning in Education and Learning and Development in Organisations or a combination of the two.

Examples of courses you can follow within this Master’s:

  • How to develop educational programmes for teaching complex skills or professional competencies, in schools or the workplace? In the elective course 4CID for complex learning, you will learn how to design learning trajectories aimed at developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes simultaneously.
  • What are conditions to facilitate team learning, how to enhance continuous learning and improve team performance in an organisation? You will find out during the elective course Team learning at work, by applying team learning theory to different professional contexts.
  • In the compulsory course Your Agency, Balance, Career & Development you will gaininsight into the various research sections within the domain of educational sciences at our university, and their perspectives on learning in educational or work contexts.

Check all the courses of Educational Science & Technology.

What will you learn?

As a graduate of this Master’s, you have acquired specific, scientific knowledge, skills and values which you can put to good use in your future career.

Knowledge

After completing this Master’s, you:

  • have contemporary knowledge of systematic approaches for the development of teaching and learning environments;
  • understand the complexity of learning and its relation to its context of practice, in ways that allow you to attend to both the learner and the ecological system in which learning takes place;
  • comprehend the crucial roles of social dynamics and disciplinary expertise for shaping learning environments.
Skills

After completing this Master’s, you:

  • can support others in understanding and articulating their needs, wishes, values, concerns, goals or ambitions;
  • are able to design, develop, test and improve solutions to authentic learning challenges in context;
  • can conduct scientific research in the fields of education and/or human resource development.
Values

After completing this Master’s, you:

  • embrace challenge and consider this to be part of your personal learning journey and growth;
  • embody respect and maintain a positive attitude towards your work and collaborations;
  • value and engage in lifelong learning.

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