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With online education dominating how we learn today, the demand for skills and knowledge to inform the design of effective learning environments is booming. By bringing together the latest thinking in computing, design, the social sciences and education, this programme will help you design better learning experiences and seize upon new career opportunities across multiple sectors.

By offering a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of online and offline learning environments, our online PGCert Design for Learning Environments will give you the edge when it comes to progressing a career in this ever-expanding field.

Combining topics as diverse as design, technology, education, social science, data science and digital development, this learning design certificate will help you develop the knowledge to design innovative learning environments, whatever the context. This makes it ideal for education providers, private learning specialists, in-house training teams and CPD providers.

Curriculum: Shape your own learning

Run by the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, our learning design certificate features expert lecturers and researchers from a range of disciplines, each bringing a unique perspective on learning environments to the curriculum.

As well as exploring classic and contemporary behavioural, social and cognitive approaches, you will also build digital artefacts and analyse data to enhance the learning experience. Youll also understand how to tailor these experiences to different learners and to different environments, both digital and physical, to improve learning outcomes.

Programme outcomes

Explore the role of design, the processes involved, and current theories and practices

Develop a digital artefact and implement it in a new learning environment, drawing on new technologies

Analyse data sets against key tools and frameworks to evaluate teaching and learning techniques

Assess the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary learning perspectives

Examine the learning environment from social and technical perspectives

Communicate a design proposal and plan a learning environment design

Career outlook

As well as equipping you for a career in education or training, our learning design certificate will enable you to build a diverse portfolio of work to showcase your skills to employers.

Our own experience as a leading UK provider of distance and blended learning reinforces the practical value of our postgraduate certificate, as does our academic research into the latest developments in technology and learning. Its these factors that will give you an advantage when it comes to furthering a career in online education – an area set to grow threefold between2015 and 2025.5

The choice of roles available to qualified professionals is constantly evolving, and includes instructional designer, digital learning designer, learning experience designer, learning architect, e-learning designer, learning technologist, learning developer, digital learning officer and learning adviser.