Courses and People of Educational Technology (MA)
Curriculum
Two classroom teaching sessions are planned – two weeks at the beginning of the programme and one week at the end. For the rest of the year, studies are online-based – independent teamwork is supported through the Moodle environment, cloud-based solutions and webinars.
The studies are also characterised by an innovative approach to the graduation thesis – we offer the possibility of doing the MA thesis as teamwork in small groups to foster students’ teamwork skills and help them create an international network of alumni for future cooperation.
The Educational Technology programme consists of three main parts.
General: pedagogical approaches – online interactive lectures and seminars |
Compulsory courses (12 ECTS):
Elective courses (6 ECTS must be selected):
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Technical: practical coursework in teams, mentoring of others, seminars |
Compulsory courses (12 ECTS):
Elective courses (6 ECTS must be selected):
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Evaluation (research) – research design (mainly action research and design-based research), publishing |
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People
Key persons:
- Prof. Margus Pedaste is Professor of Educational Technology at the Institute of Education of the UT’s Faculty of Social Sciences, where he is leading the Centre for Educational Technology. For more than a decade he has been involved in many national and international research and development projects.
- Prof. Robert-Jan Simons is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education of the UT’s Faculty of Social Sciences.
- Dr. Leo A. Siiman is Senior Research Fellow of Educational Technology at the Institute of Education of the UT’s Faculty of Social Sciences. His research focuses on inquiry learning, collaborative learning, assessment of digital competence and spatial thinking. He is currently working in the European Horizon 2020 project Next-Lab.
- Dr. Irene-Angelica Chounta is a Senior Research Fellow in Learning Analytics, since February 2018. Her research focuses on computational learning analytics for technology-enhanced learning and educational technologies. Her main research interest is to model learners' behaviour in order to provide adaptive and personalized feedback, either in formal or informal contexts.
- Dr. Emanuele Bardone is the Director of the Master’s programme in Educational Technology and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Education of the UT’s Faculty of Social Sciences, where is also the local coordinator of the Erasmus+ project entitled “MA in Educational Technology: A New Online Blended Learning Program for New Member states”. He has authored the book “Seeking Chances: From Biased Rationality to Distributed Cognition” (Springer 2011).
- Dr. Mario Mäeots is an Associate Professor of Educational Technology at the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Tartu. His main research interests are focused on developing students' and teachers' digital competences, furthermore, he aims to support the meaningful use of digital tools via digital pedagogy. He obtained his PhD in 2014 in Science Education at the University of Tartu. He was involved as a contributor in the EC FP7 project Go-Lab, was the principal investigator on a national project to assess students digital competence and is involved as a contributor in the Horizon 2020 project Next-Lab. M. Mäeots is also working as a science teacher at a general school.