Overview

The Learning and Teaching - Understanding Your Educational Practice module from The Open University UK offers significant interactivity as you engage with educational debates about how a rapidly changing, social and digital world is affecting learning, pedagogy and assessment in a variety of educational settings. It explores the key concepts from the perspective of learners (how is learning experienced), teachers (how are learning and teaching enacted) and contexts for education (how are learning and teaching organised). You’ll also focus on how learning and teaching are researched with a unit dedicated to researching practice.

Career opportunities:

We’ve designed this module to contribute to your current or future roles in relation to educational provision, with a strong emphasis on how the key concepts that underpin learning and teaching play out in practice. Part of the module’s activities will support your professional development planning. You’ll be encouraged to reflect explicitly on your digital information literacy skills and developing research skills, plus how you can use and continue to develop them in your context.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Section 1
In the first section, you’ll consider learners’ perspectives on learning, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. This includes the issue of pupil voice, how it’s accessed and used in educational settings. It also includes consideration of the concepts of learner identity and learner agency.
Section 2
In the next section, you’ll focus on educators’ perspectives on learning, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. This includes the consideration of the concepts of teacher agency and teacher identity, alongside teacher leadership, and some specific pedagogies such as dialogic teaching.
Section 3
In section three, you’ll learn about research design, including alternative research paradigms, research methods, and research ethics. Developing your research skills is an ongoing theme throughout the module.
Section 4
The last section focuses on educational settings, including culture and organisation.

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-10-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-09-17 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

60 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

You must have the minimum of a:

bachelors degree (in any subject) from a UK university, or
professional qualification equivalent to a UK bachelors degree, or
qualification from a university outside the UK and equivalent to a UK bachelors degree.

Some knowledge and understanding of learning and teaching (around curriculum, pedagogy and assessment) will be expected.

Tuition Fees

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3845 GBP / year

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2520 GBP / year

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