Admission requirements

Prerequisite for admission to the degree program is

• the successful completion of a bachelor's degree program in educational or pedagogical sciences lasting at least 6 semesters, or a diploma or master's degree program with educational or pedagogical sciences as the main subject, or
• the completion of a teacher training program lasting at least 6 semesters, or
• a comparable foreign university degree

Applicants who can demonstrate completion of a minimum 6-semester program in related fields such as sociology, psychology, and social sciences, in addition to successfully completing two foundational modules from the Bachelor's program "Educational Science" at the FernUniversität, are also eligible for admission: Module 1A Introduction to Educational Science; Module 1B Education and Society. These module certificates can be obtained before starting the master's program through the Academy Program.

Details

The degree programme prepares for activities in public and private organisations and institutions in the field of basic research, conceptualisation and design, development, organisation, implementation and evaluation of multimedia, internet-based educational processes as well as mediatized communication processes.

Study Contents

The objectives of the master's programme are:

• Introducing students to theoretical-analytical concepts of media-supported educational processes.
• Providing students with action-relevant knowledge about educational science contexts of media-supported educational processes.
• Introducing students to educational technology fundamentals so that they can independently incorporate new product developments into their analyses and considerations.
• Empowering students to analyse, critically reflect on, and practically design media-supported educational processes.

Procedure

The degree programme is designed as a scientific master's programme, i.e. it has a standard period of study of 4 semesters in full-time study or 8 semesters in part-time study. The scope of the programme is 3,600 working hours with 120 credit points to be achieved according to ECTS. The credit points, awarded according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), certify the successful completion of a module. Credit points are only awarded if the examination performance assigned to the module was rated at least 4.0 (sufficient).

The successful completion of the degree programme is evaluated with a total of 120 credit points, i.e. with 15 credit points per module (= 450 working hours) and 15 credit points for the passed master's thesis. Students must work on a total of 7 modules, so that in full-time study, 2 modules (= 900 working hours or 30 credit points) must be completed in each semester.

In addition to working on a module, the last semester is also dedicated to writing the final thesis. For this purpose, the remaining 450 working hours not determined by working on modules are used. The master's thesis consists of a written elaboration and a self-created or guided (media) product. The ratio of the workload between written work and (media) product must be in a content-justified relationship.

Costs

The total cost of the programme amounts to approximately €1,100 (part-time study within the standard period of study).