2021/2022

MSc (Technology Enhanced Learning for Health) (not on offer in 2021/22)

NFQ Level 9, Major Award

Note: Every effort has been made to ensure that the programme and module content as described in the University's Calendar and Book of Modules for the 2021-22 academic year are accurate. However, due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, no guarantee is given that programme/module content, delivery and assessment may not be altered, cancelled, replaced, augmented or otherwise amended. Any changes will ensure the same competencies and Learning Outcomes are met. Programme and/or Module Coordinators will communicate any such changes to students.

The MSc (Technology Enhanced Learning for Health) is a part-time programme which runs over two calendar years (24 months) from the date of first registration for the programme. Students take taught modules to the value of 60 credits, as well as a dissertation to the value of 30 credits that is submitted at the end of the second calendar year. The programme will be delivered using a blended learning approach of e-learning and on-campus 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.

Programme Requirements

Students take 90 credits in total:

Year 1
Students take core modules to the value of 30 credits as follows:
MH6005 Principles of Human Learning; What is Known (10 credits)
MH6006 Assessment of and for Learning (10 credits)
MH6008 Research Methods (10 credits)

*Note: MH6013 commences in the third semester at the end of Year 1 when the Outline Research Proposal and Ethics Application is made.

Year 2
Students take core modules to the value of 10 credits as follows:
MH6007 Tools for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) (10 credits)

and
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 Simulation Curriculum Design (10 credits)

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

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

Examinations
Full details of regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards 2021/2022 Book and for each module in the Book of Modules, 2021/2022.

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.

Open ALL sections above