Overview

The Education Futures (Online) programme at The University of Edinburgh is designed to respond to the need for creative, critical and experimental thinking across education in schools, universities and colleges, and learning within communities, industries and organisations.

Some of the issues you will explore include:

mobility
politics
environmental change
culture
social justice
how data-driven systems for managing and understanding the world influence learning and education

You will explore:

the ways that knowledge, culture and skills are produced and reproduced
how people, organisations and systems learn
how this influences global challenges and change

Your studies on this programme will support you:

to think ambitiously about the future of education across all sectors
gain vital data and creative skills to support your future career
apply innovative methods to building a strong future for education and learning

Postgraduate Study at the Edinburgh Futures Institute

This programme is part of an interconnected portfolio of postgraduate study in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). EFI supports interdisciplinary teaching, learning and research that is focussed on complex global and social challenges.

Our programmes are all taught by academic experts from many different subject areas. As an EFI student, you will develop creative, critical and data-informed thinking that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. You will have the space to think deeply about questions linked to your own passions and professional goals, and will develop a project based on an issue that you care about.

As well as knowledge specific to your area of study, studying at EFI will give you the skills and understanding you need to become a creative, confident and critical citizen in a fast-changing world. These will include:

core data skills
data ethics
the ability to interrogate issues of global scope
the creative and analytic approaches to knowledge that are vital for building better futures

You can join us regardless of whether you already have skills in the use and application of digital data.

Programme Structure

You will take the two 10 credit core courses for your programme:

Future of Learning Organisations: Taking a holistic rather than sectoral view of the current educational landscape, this course critically engages with the trends and values, opportunities and constraints, that may shape individual and collective experiences of learning in the future.
Educating for a Challenging Future: Educating for the future requires rethinking the concept of educational ‘solutions’ to complex, ‘wicked’ problems.

You will also take the following 10 credit shared core courses, which are compulsory for EFI students on all programmes:

Interdisciplinary Futures
Insights Through Data or Text Remix (choose one)
Ethical Data Futures
Representing Data or Building Near Futures (choose one)

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-09 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-07-11 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Disciplines

Education View 201 other Masters in Education in United Kingdom

Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

100

Other requirements

General requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in any discipline.
We will also consider your application if you have other professional qualifications or experience; please contact us to check before you apply.

Tuition Fee

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International

27100 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 27100 GBP per year during 12 months.
National

18000 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 18000 GBP per year during 12 months.

Funding

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Win a €10000 Scholarship! Deadline: 30 June 2020

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Scholarships Information

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