UTS course code: C04187
Testamur title: Master of Education in Adult Learning and Global Change
Abbreviation: MEd
Course fee: HECS/$200 per cp (local); $6,900 per semester (international)
Total credit points: 48

Footnote:
1. This course starts mid-year in Spring semester.

Overview
Course aims
Admission requirements
Advanced standing
Attendance
Course duration
Course structure
Course program
Assessment
Articulation and progression
Other information

Overview

This course is a joint initiative of UTS, the University of British Columbia, University of the Western Cape and Linkoping University, Sweden. Each of the four universities is the major centre in research and teaching in adult education in their respective countries. The aim of the course is to draw on the strengths of each partner and offer subjects designed and taught by world leaders in research in each area.

The course is run simultaneously on four continents where you are taught in common classes through a mixture of distance learning and local face-to-face activity. You are involved in both studying issues of global change and adult learning while also experiencing them directly. Tasks in the course involve you working with peers in other countries.

Course aims

The course aims to develop competence in adult learning practice in international cross-cultural contexts. It promotes networking across countries, contexts and sites of practice. It exemplifies flexible study through interplay of form and content. While the course is an innovative contribution to the range of courses offered in the world, it also provides the collaborating groups with an opportunity to develop the skills they need as educators in a globalised context.

The specific capabilities developed in the degree include the ability to:

• learn how to learn in a complex international environment
• understand and act on commonalities and differences across different contexts for adult learning
• learn and work globally
• understand knowledge-based societies and their implications for learning
• understand the implications for practice of different discourses of globalisation
• appreciate the historical context of present developments and link these to practice
• adopt a social justice perspective on all issues of learning
• use teaching and learning technologies globally
• read and act on cultural sensibilities and sensitivities
• critically reflect on one's own professional practice
• create networks of relationships across countries and help establish a global community of adult learning practitioners, and
• challenge orthodoxies in adult learning theory and practice.

Admission requirements

Undergraduate qualifications are required for entry into this course.

Advanced standing

No advanced standing is available for the core subjects as the course pedagogy is based on a cohort of students from different countries studying together over a two-year period.

Attendance

The core subjects are offered only in a web-based mode.

Course duration

The course is only offered part time over four semesters.

Course structure

In order to ensure that international cooperation between students is possible, there is a fixed sequence and timing of courses across all four sites. Student choice is only permitted in the two negotiated subjects.

Course program

Spring semester
013702 Work and Learning 6cp
013713 Locating Oneself in Global Learning 3 2cp
xxxxxx Negotiated subject 1 6cp

Over half of the program is offered simultaneously in all four institutions with responsibility for teaching each subject taken equally by one of the four. The remaining half of the program is taught locally by each institution. In the case of UTS, three subjects (the research subject, and the two negotiated units) are taken from existing offerings in Master's programs in the Faculty of Education.

Assessment

Assessment is criterion-referenced and on a Pass/Fail basis.

Articulation and progression

The core subjects (013701 to 013704 inclusive) may only be taken in the order specified. 013699 Understanding Research and the two Negotiated Subjects may be taken at any time. 013699 Understanding Research may be taken as one of the other Master's level research subjects offered in the Master of Education course. Any substitution or variation is subject to the approval of the Course Coordinator.

Other information

UTS reserves the right to change the course design and teaching arrangements according to its resources and arrangements with partner universities.

For further information about this course, contact:

telephone (02) 9514 3900
email education@uts.edu.au