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Title: Modular Postgraduate Programmes: Fulfilling Their Potential for Lifelong Learning?


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Modular Postgraduate Programmes Fulfilling Their
Potential for Lifelong Learning?
  • Sue CrossUCL
  • EUCEN, BERGEN, 2005

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Lifelong learning assumes...
  • the need for adaptability through a constant
    registering and processing of information,
    formation of concepts, and development of
    attitudes and skills.

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Who needs it?
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Adults who need to
  • keep up to date at work
  • change location, career or specialism
  • engage with new interests or revisit old ones
  • enrich their personal, social, cultural, civic
    life
  • maintain mental health in old age

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Who wants it?
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Adults who
  • are already successful
  • are subjected to change
  • are offered opportunity
  • are supported and encouraged
  • believe they can succeed

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How do we do it?
  • .

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Andragogy
  • ... learning is a process of mental inquiry not
    passive reception of transmitted content

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A reconstructed charter for andragogy based
upon
  • Valuing the experience of learners
  • Engaging in reflection on experiences
  • Establishing collaborative learning
    relationships

10
  • Addressing issues of identity and the power
    relationship between teachers and learners
  • Promoting judgements about learning that are
    developmental and which allow scope for success
    for all learners

11
  • Negotiating conflicts over claims to knowledge
    and pedagogical processes
  • Identifying the historical and cultural
    locatedness of experiences
  • Transforming actions and practices

12
Case studies modular MAs
  • Adult Learning Professional Development
  • Learning Technology Research
  • Academic Practice

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Developmental areas
  • Student funding
  • Recruitment
  • Progression

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  • Scheduling teaching
  • Assessment
  • Reconciling student needs with academic systems
    and practices

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Funding
  • Fees for postgraduate awards in uk
  • Student debt for recent graduates
  • Need for additional qualifications
  • Lack of grant support in arts/humanities
  • Employer-funded and self-funded students

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Recruitment
  • More students to ensure viability
  • Modules may be taken as short courses with credit
  • Students may take modules as a tasters and then
    register for an award or terminate registration
    and cash-in their academic credit
  • Overseas demand for fulltime programme
  • New regulations for APL APEL

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Progression
  • Linear progression is the norm
  • Modular programmes permit an opt in, opt out
    over 2-5 years for a Masters award
  • Adult learners take breaks from study
  • Mismatch between institutional efficiency and
    students needs

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Scheduling teaching
  • Unorthodox schedules to meet needs of pedagogy
    and student availability
  • Choice of modules suits students
  • Compulsory modules may need to be offered every
    year and others as often as needed to permit
    progression
  • Shared modules?

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Assessment
  • All assessed by coursework a viva
  • Principles of andragogy value experience,
    reflect on practice, value collaboration, provide
    scope for success for all, etc.
  • Award of distinction or not?

20
Reconciling student needs with academic systems
and practices
  • HEIs expect full cost recovery
  • Lifelong learners need diversity of approach,
    personalisation and adaptivity
  • Teachers under pressure to bridge the gap

21
Looking to the future?
  • Demand for flexible lifelong
  • learning provision likely to grow

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because of
  • demand for evidence of cpd
  • full-time studentships more scarce
  • employers (some) provide cash time for flexible
    study leading to an award
  • mid-career change more common

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  • realisation of the EHEA
  • later retirement ages
  • cognitive capacity now thought to decline less
    with age
  • health, social cognitive benefit from LLL

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  • So, important to promote strategic
  • planning by students, teachers and
  • administrators to develop
  • programmes, support systems and
  • build capacity for growth
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