Beyond the MA: Education & Technology

About this site

After completing the MA Education and Technology programme in 2017, a few of us got to thinking about what would have been good to know beyond the curriculum of the Taught programme. So we started to compile and aggregate resources that were beneficial while studying at UCL, have been helpful in our job searches, and will hopefully be useful in continuing our professional development. We have organized these under the three broad headings:

• General resources
• Classroom resources
• Looking for jobs

We would love to keep the information on this site dynamic, to evolve with changes in education and technology, so we have embedded ways for you to suggest edits. In general, please remember that this site and its contents were put together by a set of volunteers, and each had their own personal experience as part of the MA Education and Technology programme with different motivations and background, so be aware that this website does not claim to be comprehensive or even accurate, but is rather a compilation of some things we found helpful or enjoyable while pursuing our studies and beyond.

We invite other alumni and students of the Education and Technology programme (or other programmes at the Knowledge Lab or at the Institute of Education) to get involved more actively, and would be happy to add more editors to this project.

For content that is not in the from of an editable doc, you can make change requests to the moderators of this site here.

Our Broader Mission

Our aim is to create a go-to space for current students and alumni of the MA Education and Technology to connect with each other and share knowledge.

Through the combination of online conversations and in-person interactions, we aim to:

1. To facilitate deeper and more diverse conversations about education,
2. To enhance career readiness and awareness of career opportunities,
3. To foster a sense of a cohort and community.

Thus, in addition to this website, we have created a Slack workspace with specified channels to facilitate conversations (such as #introductions, #events, #jobs, and more). Please join the conversation by registering here.

In the future, we hope to coordinate conversations around contemporary issues as well as additional ways to socialize.