As part of developing our online Masters in Active Ageing and Age Friendly societies, the EMMA consortium came together to learn more about online pedagogy in a three-day training event hosted by University College Cork (UCC) in late 2021. Fittingly, this event was itself online! The participants included three core groups: educators (i.e. lecturers/teaching faculty); […]
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Key elements of curriculum framework
DEVELOPING CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK: moving from a vision to deciding the structure and rules of a Masters program This blog concentrates on the development of curriculum framework for EMMA Master program. To do this, we gathered information both about national and university level requirements and recommendations for master programs. Correspondence between European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and […]
The following statement is taken from the EMMA project website: “The EMMA programme will be delivered online, allowing future students to study from anywhere”. It is a great undertaking and one with challenges both pedagogically and technically. In Output 5 of the programme, we have so far explored both of these challenges, but in this […]
Why Quality Assurance is needed in a project? A successful and ambitious process most often needs to be reflected and monitored on regular basis. EMMA consortium is creating something very new and innovative. The development of the European master on healthy and active ageing creates common practices and shared conceptual knowledge, and the on-line master […]
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Developing the EMMA Curriculum Framework
Today – and even more in the future – we need new professionals from different disciplines to promote active ageing and age-friendly society. Erasmus + EMMA project is developing a new master program to offer the possibility of learning together both from different disciplines and different European countries and cultures. EMMA partner universities from Austria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Portugal […]
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EMMA: Development of New European Master’s
EMMA “Master’s in Active Ageing and Age-friendly Society”, an Erasmus Strategic Partnership program preparation started in autumn 2020. Six European countries, Austria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Slovenia were awarded Erasmus + Strategic partnership fund for three years. The aim is to develop a master level programme, scheduled to be ready for accreditation in autumn […]