Welcome to the Digital Transformative Education subject area at Leeds Beckett University We are leading digital pedagogy, and supporting educators in embedding socially just, ethically sound technology.
We are passionate about education. You’ll be supported by an expert team with knowledge across many aspects of education, including professional and cultural identity in education, leadership and management in education. You’ll study alongside students from a range of different backgrounds and educational environments giving you the opportunity to share your experiences and learn from each other's teaching methods and practices.
Our Masters courses:
Our postgraduate certificate courses:
PGCE Online:
Digital Pedagogy:
SEN Coordination:
Leading Special Educational Needs in International Contexts:
Leadership of School Mental Health and Wellbeing
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MSc in Digital Pedagogy (180 credits)
September 2025 (applications are now open)
The aims of the programme are to develop the knowledge and skills required to successfully and appropriately implement digital pedagogical practices into educational and training spaces. The course will address societal, technological, and educational issues in relation to the use of digital pedagogy, and will enable the student to design, implement and evaluate digital pedagogy in their own educational practice.
As part of this course, you’ll:
- Synthesise and evaluate different approaches to the use of digital technology in education;
- Critically evaluate own practice in terms of the key concepts in digital pedagogy;
- Use structured approaches to critically evaluate a digital artefact or system;
- Debate and critically analyse the issues that hold contemporary interest and concern for educators exploiting digital approaches to pedagogy;
- Select appropriate data collection methods to address research question or problems relevant to digital pedagogy;
- Devise and sustain arguments through critically reflecting on theory, research, policy and practice.
Level 7 Core Modules
- Key concepts in digital pedagogy
- Teaching and learning in the digital age
- Setting-based research in digital pedagogy
- Designing digital artefacts for learning
- Global perspectives and debates in digital pedagogy
- Research methods
- Dissertation
We take innovative approach with our assignments and you will interact with assignment formats from blog posts to creating your own digital artefact - be as creative as your heart takes you! There will be guidance and expertise provided to help you plan, progress and submit your assignment.
MA Transformative Education (180 credits)
September 2025 (applications are now open)
The course is designed to provide opportunity for educators and education stakeholders to develop the knowledge and skills required to successfully and appropriately research, design and implement an ethically sound transformative artefact, product or system for education. Global events have forced educators to rethink their pedagogies, their approaches to teaching and learning, and the way that they support their learners and one another. This course aims to provide a vehicle for formalising such changes in a more research-focused, evidence-based manner. The course culminates with the production of a transformative capstone project, around the student’s proposed and implemented artefact, product or system of education.
As part of this course, you’ll:
- Develop the knowledge and skills to research, design and implement an ethically sound transformative artefact, product or system for education
- Evaluate research designs
- Understand and critically reflect on educational research dilemmas in relation to context and use of research methodologies
- Analyse the ideas of values, ethics and inclusion in the diverse context of education
- Select appropriate data collection methods to address research questions or problems relevant to education in your area
- Devise and sustain arguments through reflecting on theory, research, policy and practice
Level 7 Core Modules
- Research methodologies for education
- Ethically appropriate educational research
- Proposing and managing educational research
- Transformative capstone project