With educational contexts becoming more complex, there's never been a better time to update your skills and knowledge with La Trobe's Master of Education.

Advance your career and stay up-to-date with educational best practice. You'll develop your networks and grow your career as an educator and leader.

Explore core subjects on educational leadership, psychology and digital technologies, then dig deeper into a discipline through specialisations and elective subjects in areas such as curriculum design, educational leadership, inclusion and diversity and digital learning technologies.

Study at your own pace, undertaking one to four subjects per semester. You'll expand your skills and expertise, preparing you for the next big step in your career.

You'll learn:

• Key issues in education
  • Explore the issues affecting how, why, where and for whom educational programs are designed.
• Curriculum leadership
  • Learn how to engage with curriculum reforms and design educational programs.
• Leadership and team building
  • Learn how to evaluate current practice and manage diversity in educational organisations.
• Learning sciences
  • Develop evidence-based practice around how humans learn.
• Evidence-based practice
  • Understand how to use data to inform evidence-based practice.
• Diversity
  • Explore diversity in educational contexts and plan for socially just and inclusive education.
• Digital technology in learning environments
  
  • Explore emerging technologies for learning and understand how they can help students learn.

The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 9 - Masters Degree.

Sample course structure

Please note, the following course structure is indicative and subject to change depending on your course location, offer year or how you tailor your course with specialisations, majors, minors and electives. Structures for the following year are not normally finalised until October, so the sample provided is based on the most recently approved structure. For more information, please refer to the La Trobe University Handbook.