Programme Highlights

Participants will delve into understanding adult learners, mastering the art of designing impactful learning experiences and assessments, integrating technology seamlessly into workplace learning environments, conducting sound learning needs analyses, and mastering techniques for measuring quality and evaluation across various learning and working contexts.

Upon completion of the GDALL, graduates will be confident in implementing theoretically informed and practical transformations in adult learning environments. They will emerge well-prepared to initiate and lead organizational learning initiatives, drive innovation and change, and spearhead progress within their respective organizations.

The Graduate Certificates within the GDALL is stackable towards the Master in Boundary-Crossing Learning and Leadership.

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Who Should Apply

This Graduate Diploma programme is designed for:

• Adult Educators
• Faculty and leaders of Institutes of Higher Learning
• Learning and Development (L&D) professionals in enterprises
• Other training and adult education sector professionals such as courseware developers, learning consultants, learning tech designers, learning quality managers and learning/training managers

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes across the two Graduate Certificates within this programme are as follows:

Graduate Certificate in Innovative Approaches to Adult Learning

• Critique major learning theories

• Deconstruct assumptions about adult learners and learning

• Analyse opportunities and challenges different learning contexts offer

• Examine their stance on teaching and learning

• Evaluate different teaching, learning and assessment approaches

• Design future-oriented learning and assessment

• Appraise trends and implications in the use of technology and workplace learning

• Design technology-enabled learning and or workplace learning

Graduate Certificate in Designing Learning for Programmes 

• Design a learning needs analysis

• Appraise learning needs

• Analyse the roles of relevant stakeholders and their potential contributions to learning

• Design a short learning programme

• Construct through lines in learning/curriculum design

• Defend the rationale for their design

• Appraise a selected instance of quality and evaluation

• Defend a case for improving quality and evaluation

Programme Schedule

The programme is offered in both the January and July semesters. January 2025 timetable is provided below.

You will start with Graduate Certificate in Innovative Approaches to Adult Learning (GCIAL) first followed by Graduate Certificate in Designing Learning for Programmes (GCDLP), semester by semester.

Graduate Certificate in Innovative Approaches to Adult Learning 

Entry Requirements

Prerequisites / Admissions requirement

• An undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification from a recognised institution

• Have at least 2 years of working experience

• Applicants will be required to provide a full CV detailing their work experience

• Applicants are also required to submit a personal statement of interest and reasons for choosing this programme in Word Document format (1 Page)

Skills

• Effective verbal and written communication skills that meets the English Language Proficiency Requirements (ELPR)* if your undergraduate degree is not awarded by an English-medium university, or your undergraduate degree is awarded by an English-medium university but the language of instruction was not English

* at least an IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5, or a TOEFL score of 580 (paper-based) or 85 (internet-based), or a PTE Academic score of 58, or C1 Advanced score of 180 [score must be obtained within the last 2 years at point of application].

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Fees and Funding

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