Program Overview

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Course Details

The online BA (Hons) Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Professional Practice (top-up) provides a valuable way to use your existing qualifications and knowledge to obtain a degree at the University of Bolton. You'll have the chance to study a balanced combination of current educational policy and issues, drawing in relevant aspects of sociology, philosophy and psychology. It's an excellent opportunity to explore in-depth some of the key current issues affecting education in the UK and abroad.

By thinking about

how

we learn, we'll help you explore how formal learning and acquired knowledge shapes our lives, interests and value structures. We'll also encourage you to research and analyse a range of educational practices, reflecting on your own and others' experiences of education. This will help you think critically about teaching, learning, assessing, and how education is perceived and received.

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Highlights

Our Education courses are ranked first in the UK for student experience and seventh in the UK for teaching quality by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022, so you can be assured that we offer high standards of tuition and pastoral care.

In addition, the Guardian University Guide 2022 rated our Education courses first in the UK for course and feedback satisfaction.

This course offers you the opportunity to use your existing experience, qualifications and knowledge to obtain a University degree by completing only one year of additional study.

Small class sizes mean more keenly focused attention on your learning needs and strategies for success.

Our experienced professional and approachable tutors will guide and support you throughout your course, delivering online sessions and offering attentive one-to-one support.

You'll be studying at a University known for its supportive atmosphere and become part of an online community of students from various backgrounds, each with an individual and unique perspective on education.

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Key Features

You'll have the chance to take on a systematic and reflective study of education illustrated and informed by the diversity of teaching and learning approaches in different education sectors.

You'll reflect on your current roles and responsibilities to build on the experience you've gained in educational settings and learn from the learning and teaching you've observed.

This course draws on your personal learning experiences as a starting point for understanding the formal educational process. We'll expect you to contribute to research and discussion through critical reflection on your own education and by listening to the experiences of others.

When you successfully complete this course, the University of Bolton will award you the BA (Hons) Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Professional Practice online qualification.