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Trends in Instructional Design & Technology

(3 Credit Hours)

This course provides a historical view of the Instructional Design and Technology (ID&T) field to draw parallels between constantly changing issues and demands on its practitioners. Students will be challenged to adapt methods and technologies in innovative ways to respond to market demands. In addition, they will learn how to align ID&T with transformational initiatives and organizational strategic plans.  Finally, students will gain a deep understanding of the value of ID&T in business and why learning solutions must be flexible and adaptive.

Four Part Course:

Part I:  Learning Theories

Part II:  ID Models

Part III: New Directions in IDT

Part IV: Academic Curation Model

Instructional Design & Technology I & II

(6 Credit Hours)

Both courses emphasize instructional designs that are iterative and use evolutionary approaches. An intentional link between business requirements, learning theories, instructional design models, and technologies will provide students with approaches to designing learning solutions that provide speed-to-value at minimal costs for clients. Technology is demonstrated as an enabler to achieve these results. (I) focuses on designing learning programs that develop technical and interpersonal skills. (II) focuses on designing learning programs to enhance conceptual and political skills development.

Three Part Courses:

Part I: Planning and Analysis

Part II: Design and Development

Part III: Evaluation and Implementation

Situational Learning

(1 Credit Hours)

The central theme of this course is flexibility and adaptability while working in design teams. Participants test their consulting skills and their conceptualizations of ID&T principles in problem-based scenarios. Participants come into the course with methods and techniques developed earlier in the program curriculum. This course presents new and “dissimilar” situations forcing students to rethink their conceptualizations and to find new and innovative learning solutions.

Two Part Course:

Part I: Flexibility in IDT

Part II: Adapting to Team Work

Learning Management & Systems.

(3 Credit Hours)

This final course takes a macro view of applied technologies and systems in managing learning enterprises. While students will analyze traditional models of managing learning through administrative systems and analytics; the impact of social networking on performance is a major focus of the course. Students will evaluate how future trends and changing technologies will promote building a “living” knowledge system.

Three Part Course:

PartI: Online Course Management Systems

Part II: Social Networking and Skill Acquisition

Part III: Producing vs. Consuming during learning