Master of Educational Design and Technology Corporate Learning

Focuses on the design, development, and implementation of e-Learning. Topics include learning platforms for educational and corporate environments, online learning communities, content design for online delivery, and preparation of learners for online learning. Students will learn how to use e-Learning as a teaching tool in a traditional classroom or training environment.

As schools and organizations become more diverse environments, so does the need for individuals to understand and appreciate diverse abilities, genders, sexualities, cultures and socioeconomic statuses. Students learn theoretical approaches to diversity and apply them to adult experiences about diversity. Best practices for designing content and environments that appreciate and include multiple viewpoints are examined.

Examine the systematic processes of effective instructional design to create an instructional and training product. Content includes instructional design process and models, ADDIE framework, connections between learning theories and instructional design, relationship of technology to instructional design, and applications of state and national content standards to the design and development of instructional and training products.

Examine the elements of training and development in organizational and educational environments. Students learn how to incorporate adult learning theory into training and developmental programs. Topics include planning, facilitating and assessing training and development of adults.

Examines the primary components of managing the training function within an organization. Effective strategies to be explored include program development, budgeting, team roles, internal consulting, training delivery methods, project management, course development for different media, marketing and learning management systems.