Master of Education - Distance

Comments about Master of Education - Online

• Objectives
  CSU’s Master of Education is a flexible degree providing a coursework program for professionals who are associated with the practice of education and wish to advance their skills, knowledge base and qualifications.
• Academic title
  Master of Education
• Course description
  About the course
  
  Educators in the following fields will benefit from the Master of Education program:
  
      * primary education
      * religious education
      * police education
      * nurse education
      * speech therapy
      * counselling/guidance
      * secondary education
      * consultancy/advisory services
      * early childhood services
      * youth work
      * vocational education and training
      * continuing professional education
      * educational administration
      * rural education
      * distance education
      * workplace training and staff development
  
  The degree program is designed to:
  
      * encourage and permit critical appraisal of policy, theory and practice in the education professions
      * improve the educator’s professional competence and enlarge the capacity for self development
      * provide the basis for leadership in the educator’s chosen educational venture
      * increase awareness of the importance of educational research and research methods
        and
      * permit highly qualified graduates of the programs to proceed to higher research degrees
  
  Specialisations
  
  The course offers specialisations in:
  
      * Educational Leadership
      * Information Technology
      * Literacies and Literate Worlds
      * Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
  
  Requirements for further study
  
  If you wish to meet the requirements to proceed at a later stage to a Doctor of Education or Doctor of Philosophy program, you should normally complete and achieve at a very high level the three subjects in Educational Research Methodology and the project, namely:
  EER500 Understanding and Critiquing Educational Research
  EER501 Qualitative Research Methods
  EER502 Quantitative Research Methods
  and
  ERP502 Master of Education Project (16 points)