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Strengthen your students’ teaching, learning and assessment experiences and elevate your higher education (HE) teaching methods to bring inclusive, social and applied learning to your students.
Year of entry
2025-26
Location
100% online study
Study mode
Part-time
Work based Learning
Duration
1-2 years part-time
Course code
CRBT010
Start date
September 2025
January 2026
May 2026
At Coventry University, we continuously review the courses we offer to ensure we reflect industry-relevant emerging best practice and technology. As a result, this course is undergoing continuous improvement assessment and will be launched with a renewed curriculum starting in September 2025. Module content and titles will be updated. Course title, learning outcomes and assessments may also change. We expect our new curriculum to be fully updated in July 2025. Please return to this page to see the final course details.
Developed by HE teaching experts, this course aims to develop and elevate the professional academic skills of HE practitioners involved in teaching, learning and assessment. This Learning and Teaching in Higher Education PGCert course must be studied alongside employment in the sector.
Whether you’ve been teaching for years or are new to HE, this course offers opportunities to:
This module aims to develop and enhance your learning, teaching, and assessment practice in HE through critical evaluation of pedagogic theory, exploration of contemporary practical examples, critical engagement with educational research and reflective practice. You will be introduced to the Professional Standards Framework (PSF) as part of your continuous professional development.
Participants on this module will be encouraged to discover and make connections between theories, their own practice and their students’ learning. You will also investigate learning environments, digital tools and resources, and strategies to teach effectively and inclusively in HE. The module displays through its own design how learning, teaching and assessment can be flexible and inclusive.
You are required to demonstrate your effectiveness in teaching and learning, as well as the impact your approach has on your students’ learning by critically evaluating your own practice. This is achieved through participating in discussion forums and continuous formative assessments, drawing upon your day-to-day teaching practice, partaking in professional dialogue with peers, and exchange of good practice as part of a professional dialogue framed by the PSF.
This is an online module, providing a rich online environment to facilitate individual reflection, reading and scholarship. The module introduces you to a community of enquiry for learning and teaching, where you will share with peers your challenges, ideas, and practice in multiple ways, including online discussion, group activities, and teaching observation(s). You are encouraged to question, evaluate, challenge and experiment with your ways of working and the practice of others.
The formative activities and peer discussion on this module gives you the opportunity to form a continuous development trail for you, informing the development of their portfolio and final summative assessment on this module.
Compulsory
This module aims to support you to develop and enhance your assessment and feedback practice in HE. This is achieved through a critical evaluation of research, debates and policies in the sector, reflection on your own assessment and feedback practice and good practice examples from colleagues from a diverse range of disciplines.
You will explore the complex, and often, competing roles that assessment plays in student’s learning, the principles of effective assessment and feedback practice, quality assurance processes in assessment including the associated benefits of pre- and post-moderation, and be challenged to critically evaluate your own assessment and feedback practice.
You are required to demonstrate their effective practice via a critical evaluation of your current assessment and feedback practice and consideration for enhancement within your own practice. Their evaluation and enhancement plans should be informed by your professional dialogue with peers, evaluative data, and the literature. This includes aspects such as developing students’ assessment literacy, authentic, yet inclusive assessment, and the use of assessment criteria and rubrics.
Following on from their first module, this module continues to support and value the diversity amongst the group and participants will continue to discover and make meaningful connections between theory and practice, engage with the community of enquiry in learning and teaching, sharing your challenges, ideas, and practice via online discussion, as part of a professional dialogue framed by the PSF.
The formative assessment opportunities and peer discussion on this module will form a continuous development trail for each participant, informing the development of their portfolio and final summative assessment on this module.
Compulsory
This module aims to develop and support you in curriculum design in a HE context. Having explored the learning, teaching, and assessment design in the two previous modules, this module takes the you further along their HE practice and journey where you will engage with the quality assurance and enhancement processes in curriculum design, as well as exploring and developing their own academic leadership and identity. This module continues to share the underpinning theme of the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education PGCert course, where you will reflect on their practice (in this module, your own curriculum design process (within your context), informed by critical evaluation of your local policies, strategies and the wider literature and research in curriculum design.
The online tasks, peer discussion, formative and summative assessment from this module will form a continuous development trail for you, informing your portfolio and CPD. This final module continues to support and value the diversity amongst the group and participants will continue to discover and make meaningful connections between theory and practice, and share their challenges, ideas and practice via online discussion framed by the Advance HE Professional Standards Framework (PSF).
As this is the final module of the course, the module acts as a critical point for you in curating evidence to meet requirements for professional recognition. This module also acts as a final step where participants can further explore their skills and confidence to continuing to develop and grow as scholarly practitioners beyond the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education PGCert course, in your own context.
Compulsory
Study 100% online.
This course is studied completely online via our digital learning environment. It can be studied as a full-time PG Cert over three semesters in one year. Our platform provider is currently Aula.
When studying online you will have access to a complete set of online learning materials delivered through our approved platforms. The learning materials contain all the essential teaching you will need to complete your course and undertake your assessments. You also have access to our library's electronic resources 24/7, including thousands of books, ejournals and newspapers.
In addition to the learning assets, you will have the support of an Associate Lecturer. The Associate Lecturer will undertake weekly live sessions (recorded for those unable to attend). These sessions will be seminar based, discussing the learning materials, giving clarity, depth and direction to your learning.
The Associate Lecturer will also offer fortnightly one-to-one surgeries for any individual requirements and will be available for questions on platform and via email.
As a full-time student, you will study modules totalling 60 credits each academic year. A typical 20 credit module requires a total of 200 hours study. This is made up of teaching contact hours, guided and independent study.
In a typical teaching week you will have around two contact hours of teaching. Later in the course, you will have 10 hours (total) of project supervision. Teaching is typically organised as two-hour sessions for 20-credit modules and one-hour sessions for 10-credit modules, incorporating engagement on our digital platform with content material and applying learning in associated workshops.
Throughout your studies, you will be expected to spend time in guided and independent study to make up the required study hours per module. You’ll be digging deeper into topics, review what you’ve learned and complete assignments. This can be completed around your personal commitments. As you progress through your studies, you’ll spend more time in independent study.
As an innovative university, we use different teaching methods including online tools and emerging technologies.
This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module. The assessment methods may include:
The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.
Typical entry requirements:
Applicants need to hold a first (undergraduate) degree, or equivalent in any discipline, and be able to satisfy the Course Director (or nominee) that they are capable of undertaking postgraduate study of this nature through their academic/teaching job role.
Select your region to find detailed information about entry requirements:
You can view our full list of country specific entry requirements on our Entry requirements page.
Alternatively, visit our International hub for further advice and guidance on finding in-country agents and representatives, joining our in-country events and how to apply.
An honours degree in any relevant subject.
Participants in the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education PGCert are normally required to have substantial ‘teaching’ responsibility in HE that is current and ongoing at an HE-level institution. This course is an online work-based course designed for part-time attendance. It is encouraged that you will have access to a workplace mentor/critical friend, and you will be expected to develop a network of support as you work through the course.
Applicants who do not meet one or both of the two criteria above but have relevant experience will also be considered for entry on an individual basis.
We recognise a breadth of qualifications. Speak to one of our advisers today to find out how we can help you.
IELTS: 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5
If you don't meet the English language requirements, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme before you start your course.
For more information on our approved English language tests visit our English language requirements page.
| Student | Full-time | Part-time |
|---|---|---|
| UK and International | Not available | £3,333.33 |
The tuition fee stated above is calculated for the entire duration of this programme. You also have the option to pay fees by credit hour, rather than making a full upfront payment.
For advice and guidance on tuition fees3and student loans visit our Postgraduate Finance page and see the university's Tuition Fee and Refund Terms and Conditions.
Fees will be reviewed annually; however, any increase will be no more than 5% above inflation. If you defer your course start date or must extend your studies beyond the normal duration of the course (e.g. to repeat a year or resit examinations) the University reserves the right to charge you fees at a higher rate and/or in accordance with any legislative changes during the additional period of study.
We offer a range of International scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.
Tuition fees cover the cost of your teaching, assessments, facilities and support services. There may be additional costs not covered by this fee such as re-assessments should you need them.
We offer a range of scholarships, bursaries and discounts. For more information, visit our fees page or contact our study advisor.
We carry out an initial fee status assessment based on the information you provide in your application. Your fee status determines your tuition fees, and what financial support and scholarships may be available to you. The rules about who pays UK (home) or international (overseas) fees for higher education courses in England are set by the Department for Education. The regulations identify all the different categories of student who can insist on paying the home rate. The regulations can be difficult to understand, so the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) has provided fee status guidance to help you identify whether you are eligible to pay the home or overseas rate.
If you meet all the criteria required by any one category, including any residence requirements, your institution must charge you the home rate. You only need to find one category that you fit into.
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