Knowledge Exchange in Education

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Select and apply a range of relevant theoretical and research-based evidence (primary and secondary sources), to extend your knowledge and understanding.
• Formulate and justify potential changes to educational practice.
• Communicate your understanding of the significance and limitations of theory and research.
• Identify and reflect critically across aspects of subject knowledge and their application in educational contexts and policies.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Societal and organisational structures and purposes of educational systems, and the possible implications for learners and the learning process.
• Underlying values and principles relevant to education studies.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Articulate your own approaches to learning and organise an effective work pattern including working to deadlines.
• Process and synthesise empirical and theoretical data, to create new syntheses and to present and justify a chosen position having drawn on relevant theoretical perspectives.
• Collaborate and plan as part of a team, to carry out roles allocated by the team and take the lead where appropriate, and to fulfil agreed responsibilities.
• Organise and articulate opinions and arguments in speech, writing and other appropriate media using relevant specialist vocabulary.

Exploration of:

• Knowledge exchange and knowledge exchange activities
• The different ways that universities can work with different education stakeholder groups
• The role of evidence synthesis for research informed educational practice and policy making
• Rapid evidence reviews – what they are and how to conduct one

You will be expected to engage in 'active' learning through participation in group and class discussions; posing and responding to questions. In addition, you will be expected to actively engage with on-line resources available on Blackboard or elsewhere.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.