MA in Educational Technology
University of Tartu
Key Information
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Campus location
Tartu, Estonia
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* Tuition-waiver scholarships available
Introduction
Educational Technology is an online 1-year programme designed to provide an opportunity for professional development to people who are working in positions that involve teaching and wish to use educational technology more effectively in their work.
The flexibility of the programme and major focus on e-learning make it especially well-suited to those of you who go to work – whether it be outside of Tartu or in another country.
Why Educational Technology?
- Teamwork is a primary emphasis of the programme, allowing you to advance your collaboration skills and help you develop a global social network. Students have the option to do their MA thesis in a small team
- The flexible 1-year programme is almost entirely online, allowing you to continue working in your current job.
- You find practical solutions to challenges in your workplace.
Two classroom teaching sessions are planned – one week in the beginning of the programme and one at the end. For the rest of the year, studies are online-based – independent teamwork is supported by the Moodle environment, cloud-based solutions and webinars.
Admissions
Curriculum
The Educational Technology programme is a 1-year online programme designed to provide an opportunity for professional development to people working or planning to work in positions that involve teaching and wish to use educational technology more effectively in their work.
The programme may prove to be especially useful to people currently working at educational institutions (schools, universities, etc.) who did not have a chance to gain digital technology skills and knowledge during their studies (whether because such technological solutions did not exist yet or were only beginning to emerge).
The programme's flexibility and a major focus on e-learning make it especially well-suited to those who work – whether it be outside of Tartu or in another country. There are two sessions in Tartu: a two-week onsite session in August 2022 and one week in June 2023. The exact dates of the August 2022 session will be published by early June.
Two classroom teaching sessions are planned – two weeks at the beginning of the programme and one week in the end. For the rest of the year, studies are online-based – independent teamwork is supported through the Moodle environment, cloud-based solutions and webinars.
The studies are also characterised by an innovative approach to the graduation thesis – we offer the possibility of doing the MA thesis as teamwork in small groups to foster students’ teamwork skills and help them create an international network of alumni for future cooperation.
The programme consists of three main parts:
- General: pedagogical approaches – online interactive lectures and seminars
- Technical: practical coursework in teams, mentoring of others, seminars
- Evaluation (research) – research design (mainly action research and design-based research), publishing
The following structure of the programme applies to the current academic year. To view the most updated version, please visit the University of Tartu Study Information System and choose the next academic year (if available).
Rankings
UT is ranked in the top 250 universities in the world in education and training (QS Rankings 2020)
Program Outcome
Educational technology is an interdisciplinary field of study which focuses on facilitating learning and improving teaching practices by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources and providing corresponding training to educators.
Students will be working together in groups of 2–4, supported by their lecturers and mentors, to find solutions to specific problems in their workplace or improve some other aspect of their work (or the work of the teams they are leading in their workplace).
For example, lecturers might want to learn how to effectively implement the flipped classroom approach; school teachers might aim at creating fun and beneficial learning activities where students use their smart devices; heads of schools may want to increase their teachers’ digital competence, and trainers in companies might be interested in developing trainings in the form of e-learning that allow the employees to study at home.
Scholarships and Funding
There are 9 tuition waivers available.
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Career Opportunities
Graduates are prepared to work as lecturers in universities or teachers in schools (depending on their previous studies and positions), as specialists in the field of education, or various institutions or companies focused on educational research, development or innovation. Continuing in the PhD programme is also possible.