Materials will be provided online in the Moodle LMS and are expected to be supplemented by the student’s own research and inquiry based learning. Students are expected to convivially share materials, resources and insights.

Students will be working individually, in pairs and in small groups as part of a collaborative online learning community.
Teaching strategies will include readings, discussion, group and individual work, synchronous and asynchronous activities. Active participation and collaboration will be essential. Students will be expected to demonstrate their learning by presenting work in writing, visually, orally and in presentations.
The main focus is the encourage critical thinking about the subject area and a deeper understanding of the complexities and issues as education increasingly takes place in a digital and post digital environment.

Students are required to actively participate in the course and the learning process, working collaboratively with peers and the teacher. This is evidenced by their participation in forums in the Moodle LMS and in their participation in other online activities and discussions. It is also evidenced by their engagement and referencing of the materials in the Key Assessed Task (KAT) that forms the main summative assessment of the course. Students should seek to make their engagement and understanding visible. Data from Moodle can also be used to show whether students have accessed the course materials.
The Key Assessed Task is decided upon by the student and can be individual or collaborative. It should link the theory and ideas of the course to the students own authentic working context, as required in a Finnish UAS. The KAT may take a variety of formats to suit the needs of the authentic context of the student and this allows for and is meant to encourage creativity in ways the that student work can be provided as evidence of learning.

English

24.10.2022 - 18.12.2022

01.01.2022 - 23.10.2022

5 cr

21YEL

Christopher Smith, Mark Curcher

None

Business and Media

Master's Degree Programme in Educational Leadership

TAMK Main Campus

0-5

There are no alternative ways of completing the course apart from an application for accreditation of prior learning through the Peppi/Pakki system.

All tasks are related to the participants' working environments incorporating authentic assessment and applying theory to practice in a spirit of praxis.

Assessment is not in the form of exams.

Participants are drawn from diverse cultural and national backgrounds and their experiences will feed into the learning of the whole cohort. The whole program is designed around the heterogeneity of the participants.

5 ECTS = 133 hours of student work.

N/A

The student does not meet the evaluation criteria for 1.

The student can recognise and define concepts and movements in the fields of media theory as far as they are relevant in the field of educational leadership. They are able to perform the assigned course tasks under supervision, within the allotted deadline and can partake in peer feedback and group work.

The student can identify relationships between the various media-related theories and compare and analyse how they work in relation to their own particular field of educational leadership. They can make plans and solve problems from a range of possible options with clear justification. The engage with peer feedback and group activities with a high level of skill and commitment

The student demonstrates a deep level of comprehension of historical and contemporary media theory and is able to expand upon those concepts in a creative and professional way. They are able to employ a diverse range of sources in their arguments and bring originality to the way the engage with the topics. The student is competent in all areas of feedback, analysis and self-assessment. They can cooperate responsibly, flexibly and constructively.