This course aims to: Help students further their careers through improving their skills and knowledge base in the area of digital technologies and communication, in order that these can be applied in any educational setting; enhance students' interpersonal and group communications skills in order to enable them to learn independently and make effective decisions through self-reflection on their own practice; develop in students the ability to design their own educational materials using digital technologies and in particular to develop creative and innovative approaches to this work; build in students the confidence and ability to identify and critically evaluate the use of digital technologies, whether in formal educational settings or the informal educational processes of society, and with specific reference to their own needs and practice; develop students' ability to systematically understand and critically evaluate research and research methodologies relevant to digital technologies in education, and then to apply this knowledge in actual research projects; to assist students in developing an ability to manage and understand rapid technological change and its effect on educational processes, institutions and policies.