Learning to Teach a Specialist Subject: Using New Technologies and Achieving Masters Level Criteria

This paper addresses some of the challenges faced in the common module
delivery elements of the MOTIVATE project. It examines a number of issues
relating to one of the common modules, ‘Teaching a Specialist Subject’: the
nature of the content of the module, namely subject specialist pedagogy; the
requirements in Masters level learning and its assessment; the use of new
technologies in delivery. The issues are examined separately before considering
how these elements can be achieved in combination for successful module
delivery. The paper concludes with recommendations for the use of e-portfolios,
for assessment purposes, to record and reflect upon contributions to the ‘social
networking’ and collaborative tools made by students during the module.