Requirements for Enrollment

With your Master's in Education, Media, and Digitalization, for example, you work on developing media-supported teaching and learning arrangements and content.
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Entering the Master's program in Education, Media, and Digitalization at Hochschule Fresenius is very straightforward: A bachelor's degree with at least 180 ECTS is required. Furthermore, you must demonstrate at least 1 year of relevant professional experience that you have acquired after completing your bachelor's degree. Relevant activities include work in IT technical education institutions or departments, activities in the conception and implementation of educational offers of all kinds, teaching in initial and continuing education/adult education, or activities in the planning, organization, and further development of educational offerings.

Don't have a bachelor's degree? To enroll in the distance learning program in Education, Media, and Digitalization without a bachelor's degree, a specialized vocational training is required. After completing your vocational training, you must have worked for at least four years in a profession relevant to the Master's program. You then take an aptitude test at Hochschule Fresenius. If you pass this test, you will be immediately enrolled in this part-time study program.

Study Contents, Modules, and Specializations

The master's program Education, Media, and Digitalization is divided into the module groups Pedagogy as a Science, Education in Modern Society, Education and Research, as well as Media and Digitalization. In addition, there are 2 elective areas with numerous specializations.

In the full-time study program, the course schedule looks as follows:

• 1st Semester: Introduction project for self-directed learning, Pedagogy as a Science, Didactic Models and Principles, Education in an Interdisciplinary Context, Education, Ethics, and Sustainability, Aspects of Scientific Research
• 2nd Semester: Lifespan Pedagogy, Media Education and Media Didactics, Education and Society, Education Research, Media in an Interdisciplinary Context, Media Education and Media Psychology
• 3rd Semester: Quality Management in Education, Learning, Media, and Digitalization, Didactic Design, Elective Area
• 4th Semester: Technologies for Digital Teaching and Learning, Master's Thesis

In the 3rd semester, you will choose your 3 specialization modules from the elective areas: Adult Education and Management and Leadership.

Study Concept and Process

We are convinced that exams in written form are not suitable for assessing your acquired competencies accurately. Hence, in this degree program, you will rarely find written exams in a written form. We test your learning progress continuously and online through assignments, online presentations and speeches, or in so-called e-portfolios. For you, this means: No travel effort for exams and less exam stress – and thus a fair chance for excellent performance assessments that correspond to your actual knowledge and competency level.

Balancing studies, work, and life is a significant challenge. Therefore, support in this pivotal phase of your life is crucial: the support of your family, the understanding of your company, and especially the personal, consistently service-oriented support from your university. That's why we rely on a unique interdisciplinary coaching team consisting of professors, lecturers, and study coaches. Your personal study coach is your contact person for all matters related to your studies. Whether by phone, email, or through the messenger on studynet – your study coach advises and supports you actively on your path to a successful degree. This way, we create the necessary balance together, thereby enabling you to continuously grow in your studies – achieving something that seemed so distant at the beginning.

Whether at home or on the go, on desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone – your campus is always with you. Our studynet learning platform is simultaneously an auditorium, seminar room, campus, and cafeteria. "Social Learning" is the keyword: a holistic learning experience that, in addition to using a variety of different media formats, consistently focuses on dialogue.

For example, with many features you already know from your usual social media platforms: Connect with each other and exchange messages using the messenger. Stay up to date with the Activity Board, your onlineplus timeline. And find out in your personal learning analytics what you have accomplished and where you stand. At the kick-off studycamp, the open learning camps, and optional other events on-site, we create opportunities to deepen and expand your contacts from the world of onlineplus. This way, you experience an active learning community that accompanies you through the entire study and will also be a valuable network for you beyond that, as an alumni of Fresenius University.

At onlineplus, studying has a method. Structure and pacing characterize the learning organization at onlineplus, providing clear orientation and fundamentally distinguishing it from conventional distance learning programs. You start flexibly at a time you choose and are guided through similarly structured learning units, modules, and semesters based on our study magazines, the studymags, via individually planned milestones.

This way, you learn in manageable stages that provide regular moments of success and new motivation in studying. The study plan recommended by onlineplus allows you the flexibility of numerous adjustment options that you can tailor to your personal learning style, preferred study times, and your learning pace. This enables you to find exactly the study program that suits you.

Throughout, you have full transparency: You can see your individual learning progress at any time, i.e., what you have already achieved, where you currently stand, and exactly what lies ahead. This innovative and intuitive study format thus lays the foundation for the feasibility and success of your entire online study.