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  • Learning Technologies (MSc)
  • 2012/2013 entry
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  • Assessment

    • Depending on the modules chosen, there will be a combination of coursework and written examinations.

  • Attendance
      • Three evenings a week part-time; up to four days a week full-time.
      • October–June.
  • Duration
      • Two years part-time or one year full-time.
  • Entry requirements
  • Fees and funding
    • Fees (2012/13)
      • Part-time (home/EU students): £3975 pa  
      • Part-time (overseas students): £6875 pa
      • Full-time (home/EU students): £6950 pa
      • Full-time (overseas students): £13,750 pa
  • Location
      • Central London.
  • Teaching

    • Lectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions.

Learning Technologies (MSc) - 2012/2013 entry


  • Overview
    • This programme is aimed at people from either a computing or an education background, and also at those already working in the learning technologies area. You will gain specialist knowledge of designing, developing and evaluating learning systems, and will develop a sound foundation for entry to a career in learning technologies or to a research degree in the subject.
  • Why study this course at Birkbeck?
      • Provides academic grounding for the profession of learning technologist.
      • Taught by senior academics from two world-class departments at Birkbeck and the Institute of Education.
      • Distinctive in its twin focus on the computer science and the learning theory that together underpin the optimal use of learning technologies.
  • Course structure

    • There are two routes through the programme: Route A is appropriate for those without significant prior experience of computing; and Route B for those with significant prior experience of computing, including prior experience with using an object-oriented programming language.

      Students complete the taught element of the programme by choosing from a range of specialist modules, such as:

      Additionally, you will undertake an individual project. This may be either an implementation project, aiming to design, develop and evaluate a substantial software system targeted at a specific learning setting; or a research dissertation, aiming to conduct a piece of social science or education research into a problem in the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning.

  • Study resources

    • This programme is taught jointly by Birkbeck and the Institute of Education, and you will have access to facilities at both institutions.

      You will have 24-hour access to several laboratories of networked PCs with a range of language compilers, database and other application software. We are connected, via the SuperJANET network, to the computers of other academic institutions in London, elsewhere in the UK, and abroad.

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