11 Distance Learning MSc Programs in Education in Europe for 2024

The University of Glasgow's School of Education, ranked 8th in the UK for Education by The Complete University Guide 2024, recognises the need for quality teachers. Our Online Education MSc is perfect for teachers, pre-PhD or -EdD students and education professionals keen to further their careers around their existing commitments. Our focus on research and high-level teaching from expert faculty will ensure you are best placed to further your career in education.

MSc in Smart-EdTech, Co-creativity & Technology Enhanced Learning. The SmartEdTech MSc addresses public, social, and economic issues in a participative and creative way, to build the education of tomorrow. We are offering a program based on the disruptive pedagogy that is made possible by digital learning. This MSc program puts smart educational technologies at the heart of its training activities in order to improve today's education for everybody and to create the education of tomorrow.

This multidisciplinary Masters programme in Advanced Child Protection Studies is designed to develop specialist knowledge and skills within the field of child protection and safeguarding.

Our Physical Education and Wellbeing MSc is a nationally and internationally relevant evidence-based program, which applies to primary, second, and further education. There is also the possibility for Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning (APCL) for postgraduate degrees (eg, PGCE).

The Health Professions Education online program is for those interested in developing themselves in a healthcare education role and offers the flexibility of learning to suit those currently employed. The program will cultivate teaching practice that instills the principles and values of interprofessional education to support the development of the future and current healthcare workforce.

Our online TESOL course is ideal for those who want to study while continuing to teach.

The MSc Mental Health in Children and Young People: Psychological Approaches (Online Learning) offers a unique perspective: that children and young people’s mental health and well-being are influenced by developmental processes at multiple levels, from individual to socio-cultural and that approaches to working with mental health and well-being need to be informed by this dynamic and interactional system.

Our online Clinical Education MSc, PgDip, PgCert (Online Learning) programme takes advantage of our world-renowned expertise to enhance your abilities to teach and assess students in a clinical environment. Our aim is to help you reflect upon, and share thoughts about, your practice while increasing your understanding of applying educational theories and evidence from the literature. As a result, you will learn the knowledge and skills you need to deliver, develop and research high-quality clinical education in your own discipline.

Advance your knowledge of data science and unlock new career progression opportunities with our MSc Data Science programme. This postgraduate degree course delves into the advanced concepts and theoretical frameworks needed to establish a rewarding career in data science-related fields, with the potential to make real impact on the global digital economy. Delivered using innovative e-learning technology, this flexible online master’s programme can be studied at a pace that suits you, allowing you to fit coursework around your existing life and work commitments.

Learning, teaching, training, and research are profoundly affected by the challenges and opportunities posed by a digital acceleration in education. Since 2006, the MSc in Digital Education has given professionals in education - whether in higher or further education, schools, NGOs, commercial organisations, and government ministries - the critical insight they need in this fast-moving and richly diverse field.

The MSc in Educational Leadership offers a fascinating insight into an arena that has changed remarkably over recent years. Leading and promoting optimal learning is the key challenge that confronts educational leaders, advisers, policymakers and governments. Finding the connections between leadership and learning is not easy and involves change and reform in organisations. These three key themes - leadership, learning and change - are the basis of this course.