The full-time MSc (Technology Enhanced Learning for Health) runs over one calendar year (12 months) from the date of first registration for the programme. Students take taught modules to the value of 60 credits. The programme will be delivered using a blended learning approach of e-learning and participation in workshops demonstrating the design and implementation of training, along with the assessment of training.  The students will engage in self-directed e-learning through a series of tracked learning objects delivered as SCORM packages through UCC’s Blackboard VLE. This content will also include gated assignments to gauge student participation. Students also undertake a dissertation (30 credits) that is submitted at the end of the calendar year.

Entry Requirements

This programme will be aimed at healthcare professionals (of all disciplines), educators, technicians and administrators from education and industry who have responsibility for the commissioning, design or implementation of ‘learning’ courses for healthcare workers.

Applications will be considered from graduates of all disciplines. Applicants will normally have an honours primary degree at Second Class Honours level (2H2 or above).

Applicants with (6 years) relevant professional experience in healthcare or a healthcare related industry will also be considered.

All applicants will be asked to submit a statement as part of their applications to indicate their reason for wishing to apply for the programme. This piece of writing will be used to evaluate each applicant's suitability for the programme.

Programme Requirements

Students take 90 credits in total.

Students take core modules to the value of 40 credits as follows:
MH6005 Principles of Human Learning; What is known (10 credits) 
MH6006 Assessment of and for learning (10 credits) 
MH6007 Tools for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) (10 credits) 
MH6008 Research methods (10 credits) 

Students take elective modules to the value of 20 credits from the following:
MH6009 Educational Design (10 credits) 
MH6010 Procedure skills and simulation based assessment and learning (10 credits) 
MH6011 Summer School - Simulation Applied 1 (10 credits) 
MH6012 Summer School - Simulation Applied 2 (10 credits) 

Research
MH6013 Dissertation in Technology Enhanced Learning for Health (30 credits)

Part-time
The part-time MSc (Technology Enhanced Learning for Health) runs over two academic years from the date of first registration for the programme. Students take modules to a total value of 90 credits. Students take taught modules to the value of 60 credits over two years. The programme will be delivered using a blended learning approach of e-learning and participation in workshops demonstrating the design and implementation of training, along with the assessment of training. The students will engage in self-directed e-learning through a series of tracked learning objects delivered as SCORM packages through UCC's Blackboard VLE. This content will also include gated assignments to gauge student participation. Students also undertake a dissertation (30 credits) that is submitted at the end of the calendar year.

Module Semester Information may be found here. Module Descriptions may be found here.

Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards 2017 Book and for each module in the Book of Modules 2016/2017.

See also General Regulations for the Degree of Master.

Programme Learning Outcomes for MSc (Technology Enhanced Learning for Health) (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• Describe how individuals remember and forget (i.e., memory), learn and acquire skills.
• Explain how memory, learning and skill acquisition impinge on healthcare practices.
• Display a comprehensive and evidence-based knowledge of the variety of technological tools, which can be utilised to augment the learning process in a health-care context.
• Demonstrate an evidence based and pragmatic knowledge and understanding of how learning and skill acquisition can be managed, enhanced and quality assured for a health-care context.
• Design and implement work-based technology enhanced learning curricula and assessments in a variety of contexts.
• Evaluate technology enhanced work-based learning curricula.
• Display a critical understanding of how human factors and learning impinge on working and training in a health-care context
• Apply conceptual and human-factor evidence to learning and skill acquisition in a clinical context
• Demonstrate a critical, evidence-based understanding of the application of Technology Enhanced Learning for modern health-care practice.