Courses

Understand design and advancement of learning and motivation outcomes in various environments through a systematic examination and application of current research.

Establish your professional foundation and philosophy as an educator.

Examine various research designs and their appropriateness for addressing different research questions, threats to validity and other challenges in research, and basic statistical methods and their use.

Discuss fundamentals of human physical, motor, mental, social, and emotional development, spanning the prenatal period through late adulthood.

Appraise practices that maintain power; create strategies to empower individuals and marginalized groups by intervening to achieve equitable outcomes in education, professions and communities.

Understand selection and evaluation of media and technologies in support of instructional design based on a survey of current research and recommendations.

Learn about concepts and procedures for assessment and evaluation of individual and overall performance in various learning environments.

Discuss formulation and design of effective instruction; with an emphasis on analysis of media characteristics and instrumentation requirements.

Address design of learning environments through application of design principles; gain project-based practice in aligning instructional design, media selection, and the features of learning spaces.

Create a proposal and design a capstone project that applies knowledge and skills learned throughout the program and prepare your coursework portfolio.

Implement the capstone project and submit your portfolio which will integrate program coursework.