Apprenticeship Postgraduate Certificate in Learning Design and Teaching Innovation

This course aims to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and values necessary to promote innovative practice in learning design, teaching, and assessment/evaluation in their specialist discipline in higher education. As well as University/Further Education lecturers the course is appropriate for trainers and others teaching/training adults at FHEQ levels 4-8.

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Who is the course designed for?

The course designed for academic professionals teaching adults at FHEQ levels 4-8 in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. 

Employer support and expression of interest

Participants in this Apprenticeship programme must be supported by their employer who will be actively engaged in their on the job development.

Employers are required to complete an Expression of Interest form and return to apprenticeships@ice.cam.ac.uk for further information.

Aims of the programme

The course is designed to equip participants with the KSBs necessary to promote innovative practice in learning design, teaching, and assessment and evaluation in their specialist discipline in the workplace. In addition, the programme will enhance the career development of academic professionals by promoting disciplinary, pedagogical and technological skills appropriate to teaching adults either in-person, online or by utilising a blended mode of delivery. It will also create an inclusive community where academic professionals can share good practice across divergent forms of adult and workplace teaching and learning.

Educational aims

  • promote participants’ knowledge and understanding of how adults learn drawing on abroad range of pedagogical research and theory both in the specialist discipline and education studies more generally;
  • develop advanced skills in learner-centred educational design, drawing on appropriate pedagogical research, including session, syllabus and/or curriculum design strategies;
  • develop and critically explore teaching styles, strategies and methods capable of enhancing students’ learning in the specialist discipline appropriate to face-to-face,blended and/or online sessions;
  • critically examine principles and methods of assessment and evaluation in the specialist discipline capable of improving students’ learning experiences and educational outcomes;
  • conduct small-scale research in the specialist discipline examining how innovations in learning design, teaching practice and assessment/evaluation might improve students’ learning experiences and educational outcomes;
  • demonstrate commitment to the core values and practices of an academic professional, which have been developed through reflective practice and are expressed in a personal philosophy of teaching and learning.

Application Dealing: 24 June 2022

Course duration: 15 - 18 months

Course dates: 4 October 2022 to 29 March 2024

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