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TL6009: Digital Education for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Course Fact File
CodeTL6009
Duration12 weeks
Teaching ModePart-Time
Fees€500 for non-UCC staff See Fees and Costs for full details.
Closing Date1st November 2025
Venue

 This module will have a blended delivery

Credits5
Start Date12th January 2026

Outline

Participants will be introduced to foundational ideas in Digital Education and will critically engage with the research and scholarly debates in the field. They will evaluate and use a variety of Digital Education tools and approaches with a view to integrating (or not integrating) them as appropriate to their own discipline and pedagogical approach. Using this knowledge, participants will design (or redesign) some component of their teaching (e.g. learning activities, assessments, or feedback plans) and reflect on their decisions to use (or not use) specific Digital Education ideas and approaches.

Through practical workshops, reflections, discussions, and assessments, participants will gain a foundational knowledge in digital education as well as the confidence to respond to unexpected challenges. Students will reflect on the ways that digital education can support student learning and will articulate their own approach to digital education and rationale for the degree they do (or do not) integrate these approaches into their own teaching.

Practicalities

Quantity Duration Time Type Mode of Delivery
5 3 Hr(s) Seminars/Webinars Online
35 1 Hr(s) Directed Study  
75 1 Hr(s) Research Training/Independent Enquiry  

Why Choose

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

1 Demonstrate a critical awareness of digital education best practices rooted in research, disciplinary, and practical applications;
2 Design a learning activity or assessment using digital education tools and approaches and outline a plan to gather evidence of its impact on student learning;
3 Participate in inter/transdisciplinary discussions on digital education as a community of scholars.

Requirements

  1. Academic Requirements: Applicants must have a primary honours degree (NFQ, Level 8) and be teaching in the third level education sector.
  2. Applicants must be employed in a Higher Education institution.
  3. A requirement will be access to highspeed broadband in order to access the institutional VLE Canvas.

 

Fees and Costs

€500 for non-UCC staff

How To Apply

Please select the following options during your online application (once you have created your profile)

Start a new Micro-credentials application by selecting as below

Application choice guide

In the application level tab select the following option 

And then select TL6009 from the listing.

The full payment of €500 will be collected on submission.

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