Online M.ED. in Learning Design and Technology Career Outlook Program Outcomes

The Master of Education in Learning Design and Technology is designed for PreK-12 teachers looking to bring technology, creativity, and innovation to their classrooms. The cutting-edge program equips teachers with a forward-thinking approach to education and learning through technology.

Upon completion of the program, graduates are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Ignite learning by incorporating new knowledge:

• Value inquiry and information needs in order to engage in lifelong learning.
• Apply a repertoire of creative and flexible information-seeking strategies to navigate the unfamiliar, take action, or solve a problem.
• Re-ignite your passion for teaching and learning through scholarship.
• Engage in research to create something new, acquire insight, transform values, or expand knowledge.
• Validate understanding and interpretation of information through discourse with others, including experts and practitioners.
• Employ multimedia, hypermedia, and electronic literature resources to gather and distribute knowledge and information.

2.Center the learner by creating individual abilities:

• Develop the mindset and ethical habits needed to advance learning in both teacher and student.
• Apply the science of learning to student development.
• Evaluate how technology transforms learning.
• Cultivate reflective practices and redefine the teacher’s role.
• Develop culturally relevant educational awareness.
• Model and promote self-directed learning.

3. Design instruction for individualizing learning:

• Develop a design mindset and process for improvement.
• Structure environments to ignite creativity.
• Craft instructional design with an awareness of how learning occurs.
• Integrate pedagogical knowledge, content knowledge, and technological knowledge to deepen learning.
• Create conditions to optimize engagement and motivation for all learners.
• Develop authentic learning by intentionally aligning standards, assessment practices, and instructional strategies.

4. Exchange and communicate to create shared solutions:

• Develop the language and practices to break down the isolationism of teaching.
• Create learning solutions in consultation with colleagues and the community.
• Apply global perspective to understanding learning.
• Create a professional support network.
• Capture ideas, data, and relationships visually.
• Employ clear writing and speaking skills appropriate to the audience, including multimedia formats and web publishing.

5. Initiate school-wide change:

• Analyze system changes required for innovative program adoptions.
• Work with policy leaders as change agents.
• Advocate for updated educational approaches to improve student learning.
• Evaluate relevant trends and approaches from non-education areas (the arts, science, business, etc.).
• Promote educational equity.

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