Education (Learning, Technology and Society)

The Education (Learning, Technology and Society) program offered by the University of Bristol is suitable for people with a variety of educational backgrounds and experiences, including teachers and lecturers, creative technologists and those who support informal learning settings such as museums and public spaces.

The pathway will provide you with a firm foundation for developing your career in teaching and facilitating learning in formal and informal settings, education leadership, research or learning technology. You will develop an in-depth understanding of sociotechnical change and a critical perspective on if and how digital technologies can support learning in a wide variety of settings. In addition, the pathway will prepare you to undertake further research in this rapidly developing field.

Careers

We offer academic and personal development opportunities to equip you for the intellectual, social and personal challenges you will encounter during your career.

Our overarching goal is to enable our education graduates to display the following characteristics:

• equipped to demonstrate impact, excellence and distinctiveness in your chosen field;

• visionary, imaginative, innovative, reflective and creative;

• high ideals and values, including a strong sense of social justice;

• highly employable throughout the world;

• adaptable, with the potential to be a leader in work and in the community.

Courses included:

• Teaching and Learning with Technology

• Designing Technologies for Learning

• Education in a Time of Social and Technological Change

• Addressing Controversial Issues in Education

• Assessment in Schools

• Autism in theory and practice
• Brain, Mind and Education