For those who apply through universityadmissions.se, application period: 2024-10-15 – 2025-01-15
About the programme:
This interdisciplinary program combines pedagogy and social sciences, focusing on sustainability and digital transformation in education. It acknowledges that education is undergoing significant changes due to globalization, the rapidly expanding EdTech market, digitalization, and innovative approaches to managing and implementing change processes. The programme prepares you to develop sustainable educational strategies that address society's evolving needs. You will gain a solid foundation of theoretical and practical perspectives integrating technological, pedagogical, and social aspects to tackle current and future challenges. Ethical and social issues, participation, inclusive learning design, and leadership are emphasized and linked to social sustainability across various educational contexts.
Practical experience and collaborations
During the programme, you will deepen your knowledge through courses focusing on learning, digitalization, and sustainability, to enhance your understanding of digital transformation and sustainable solutions. As part of the DIP2 course, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a learning organization and apply your knowledge in practical settings.
During the programme, you will immerse yourself in courses that focus on learning, digitalisation and sustainability, to deepen your understanding of digital transformation and sustainable solutions. As part of the DIP2 course, you will have the opportunity to work with a learning organisation and put your knowledge into practice. This web-based programme includes both synchronous and asynchronous seminars and study assignments. The synchronous seminars allow all students to meet digitally to discuss and share valuable experiences, enhancing your educational journey. You can choose to study for one or two years; the two-year option provides an opportunity to deepen your studies in the first year and includes the possibility of studying abroad.
After graduation
Upon graduation, you will have the skills to create and implement sustainable education strategies. Career opportunities include roles as an educational strategist, where you can develop new learning models, or as a digitalization specialist, leading digital transformation in education. You may also work on developing policies related to education and sustainability.
The program also qualifies you for further study at the postgraduate level and provides a solid foundation for working in both national and international education environments.
The master programme in Education, Learning, Digitalization, and Sustainability (LeaDS) is offered within the educational context of Social Sciences of Sustainability at the School of Education and Communication.
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Facts and requirements
Total tuition fee: 240000 SEK
Tuition fees do NOT apply for EU/EEA citizens or exchange students
After graduation
After graduating from the program, you will have carried out your own thesis project and be ready for qualified positions in various sectors where designs for learning are at the core of the development strategies. You will also be ready for post-graduate studies in education with a focus on digitalization and sustainability. The programme ties specifically onto the School of Education and Communication/Jönköping University's dynamic doctoral international research milieu in digitalization and education, involving nine national higher education institutions in Sweden and partners abroad.
Courses
NB Preliminary list of courses.
Year 1
Social Sciences of Sustainability, 5 credits
Sustainability, Digitalization, and Learning, 2.5 credits
The Global Teacher, 7.5 credits
Digitalization and Implementation Processes in School I, 7.5 credits
Social Justice, 7.5 credits
Research Methods 1 in Learning, Digitalization, and Sustainability, 7.5 credits
Digitalization and Implementation Processes in School II, 7.5 credits
Individual Literature Course, 7.5 credits
Master Thesis in Learning, Digitalization, and Sustainability, 15 credits
Year 2
Sustainable Leadership in a Digital Age, 7.5 credits
Elective courses 22.5 credits (after agreement with programme director), or
Studies at other university 22.5 credits (after agreement with programme director)
Research Methods 2 in Learning, Digitalization, and Sustainability, 7.5 credits
Master Thesis in Learning, Digitalization, and Sustainability, 30 credits
Internship
In a compulsory five-week internship independently organized by the student, the student works with an implementation process, framed and formulated within the programme. The acquired experience allows for knowledge application, and further development. The surrounding courses on specific aspects of learning, digitalization, and sustainability serve the purpose to expand and deepen the internship experience, for example regarding collaborative practices across fields of expertise and professional roles within an organization, inclusive communication with tools, and leadership skills.
Study abroad
During the third semester (22.5 credits), you have the possibility of designing your own semester from a selection of elective social science courses at Jönköping University, other Swedish universities or at universities abroad, after agreement with the programme director.
Interviews
Student projects
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