Postgraduate Certificate in Technology Management
Open University
Key Information
Campus location
Online United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
1 - 8 year
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 2,825 *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* total cost: £2,825–£3,245
Introduction
If technology, innovation and change are factors in your organisation or role, this certificate will extend your knowledge, skills and capability – adding value to your career and your workplace. It provides a rounded view of the management of technology and technological innovation, investigating topics such as the nature and types of technological innovation, technology transfer, and eco-innovation – which are relevant to all economic and organisational sectors and types of technology. The optional modules explore technology management within fields such as computing and ICT, business and management, development management and environmental management.
Key features of the course
- Focuses on the operational aspects of managing technological innovation and change
- Encourages you to apply your learning to your own particular technology context
- A wide choice of optional modules enables you to tailor your studies to your own needs and interests.
This certificate is the first stage of a study programme that progresses to a postgraduate diploma and finally a masters degree. You can step off at any point, or study the whole programme.
Program Outcome
The learning outcomes of this qualification are described in four areas:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Cognitive skills
- Practical and professional skills
- Key skills
Curriculum
Course details
To gain this qualification, you need 60 credits as follows:
30 credits from:
- Strategic capabilities for technological innovation (T849)
- Technology innovation management (TB801)
Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T840 and T848
30 credits from:
- Strategic capabilities for technological innovation (T849)
- Technology innovation management (TB801)
- Making strategy with systems thinking in practice (TB871)
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (TB872)
- Information security (M811)
- Digital forensics (M812)
- Software development (M813)
- Software engineering (M814)
- Project management (M815)
- Data management (M816)
- Network security (T828)
- Manufacture materials design (T805)
- Managing for sustainability (T867)
- Making environmental decisions (T891)
- Continuing professional development in practice (U810)
The University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 20 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that we've previously awarded to you.