Description
Nowadays society in general demands new educational methods that require professionals with a multidisciplinary training able to face them.
These new educational needs have generated new areas and educational contexts, different from the conventional ones, which need specialized educational interventions directed by professionals with specific skills.
The Master's Degree in Education presents an educational program that seeks to fill a gap in the field of continuing training and in the field of education.
Outcomes
General Outcomes:
- Provide a comprehensive and up-to-date training, and provide the basis for the development of academic and professional skills necessary for teaching in different teaching-learning contexts that may occur.
- Professional practice based on current knowledge, in new or unfamiliar environments of education; provide ideas about the nature of teaching and learning in general; and develop the skills, knowledge, skills and resources needed to complete the theoretical basis.
- Motivate critical reflection for good theoretical training and its practical application, fundamental area of action, develop good judgment, good decision-making and problem-solving, and provide tools for scientific research for referenced contribution in innovative subjects or current of higher education.
Specific Outcome:
At the end of the program, students will be capable of:
- Analyze and evaluate learning factors.
- Analyzer and express the different learning theories and methodological learning bases.
- Explain and indicate the importance of tutorials in the educational system.
- Explain the importance of strategic learning and its influence professional development.
- Apply ICTs in the classroom as teaching resource.
- Design scientific research methodology.
- Manage school conflicts.
- Analyze the effect of interculturality in education.
- Analyze and discuss the difference processes to assist diversity.
- Organize and manage educational centers.
- Integrate environmental education in formal education.
Target Audience
This master's degree program provides comprehensive and up-to-date training, and provide the basis for the development of academic and professional skills necessary for teaching in different teaching-learning contexts.
Duration
The maximum time to complete the program is 24 months. The credit structure of the Master in Education with a specialty in Higher Education is the following:
Core Courses: 34 credits
Required: 12 credits
Electives: 14 credits
Structure
| MASTER IN EDUCATION WITH A SPECIALTY IN HIGHER EDUCATION | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CODE | TITLE | PREREQUISITES | CREDITS | |
| CORE SUBJECTS | ||||
| FP101 | Learning Theories and Teaching Methodological Bases | N/A | 3 | |
| FP102 | Strategic Learning and Professional Development | N/A | 3 | |
| FP087 | Learning Factors | N/A | 3 | |
| FP079 | Tutorial Action in the Educational System | N/A | 3 | |
| FP077 | ICTS in the Classroom. Teaching Apps and Use of ICT Resources | N/A | 3 | |
| FP078 | Interculturality and Education | N/A | 3 | |
| FP080 | Conflict Solution and Transformation in the Educational Environment | N/A | 3 | |
| FP084 | Environmental Education in Formal Education | N/A | 3 | |
| FP103 | Fundamentals of Special Education: The Process of Attention to Diversity | N/A | 3 | |
| FP104 | Organization and Management of Education Centers | N/A | 3 | |
| FP092 | Scientific Research Methodology | N/A | 3 | |
| FP105 | Portfolio I | N/A | 1 | |
| ELECTIVE | ||||
| FP173 | Educational Quality, Evaluation, and Innovation in Higher Education | N/A | 3 | |
| FP171 | Educational Modalities in the University Context: Face-to-Face, Blended, and Distance | N/A | 3 | |
| FP176 | Professional Development and the Reflective Practice of University Professors | N/A | 3 | |
| FP179 | Teaching Methodologies and Strategies in the University Classroom | N/A | 2 | |
| FP180 | Learning Assessment in the University Context | N/A | 2 | |
| MANDATORY | ||||
| - | Master’s Thesis | Having completed 50% of the program credits and having passed FP092 | 10 | |
| FP108 | Portfolio II | N/A | 1 | |
| FP116 | Portfolio III | N/A | 2 | |
| TOTAL | 60 | |||
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Degree
After approving the courses and the Master's Thesis, and satisfying any other academic, administrative and economic necessity expected and required by the university, the following degree will be issued:
MASTER IN EDUCATION WITH A SPECIALTY IN HIGHER EDUCATION