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Instructional Design and Technology Graduate Program Fine Print

The Instructional Design and Technology program consists of twelve courses. Three are Education courses required by state regulations for a Masters of Education in any specialty. These include Educational Research, Multi-cultural Education, and a third which is typically either Curriculum Development or Human Development.

You will also take nine technology courses. Officially, this is considered as seven technology courses and two electives. The electives exist just in case one of our students wants to take a graduate course or two in another department. For almost everybody, the two electives are also technology courses, for a total of nine.

The IDT program policy on the midterm and final projects is to be extremely flexible in accommodating your needs. Many students arrange to do projects that demonstrate the required competencies by building something they really need, such as a full-featured illustrated catalog for a side business selling handmade pillows or a Website for their daughter’s softball team.

Here are the current twelve technical course options:

Course Number Course Title Content

EDT 6305

EDT 6384

COMPUTER PRODUCTIVITY & ADVANCED COMPUTER PRODUCTIVITY

Everybody knows how to do the basics with the Microsoft Office Suite. In these two courses, you will learn the high-end functionality that most people don’t know exists. Generations of past students have agreed that once you know the most advanced skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access database, you will find yourself operating at this level all the time.

EDT 6310 ELEMENTS OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Instructional Design elements such as layout, user interface, typography, color theory, and audience definition. Students typically take this course early in their programs and use what they learn here in every project done later for their professional portfolio.

EDT 6355 VIDEOGRAPHY

Use Adobe Premiere, the professional’s videographer’s tool, to turn out commercial-grade video learning projects.

EDT 6380

EDT 6382
WEB DESIGN
ADVANCED WEB DESIGN

No more “cookie-cutter” Websites that look like everybody else’s! Learn to build our sites from scratch to meet customer specifications using Adobe Dreamweaver. This is a skill that is highly valued by employers because if you can build Websites, you can also repair them.

In the advanced course, we work with professional branching and polishing tools, such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML5.

EDT 6385

EDT 6392

EDT 6394

SPECIAL PROJECTS

SPECIAL TOPICS

INDIVIDUALIZED WORK

We use these titles for a variety of individualized courses on topics such as:

  • Interactive Learning Objects with Adobe Captivate
  • Computer Art for Learning with Adobe PhotoShop
  • Fine Art Creativity with Adobe Illustrator
  • Learning Object Creation with Camtasia and Audition
  • Large Scale Integrated Publishing with Adobe InDesign
  • Technical Writing Intensive
Note: Each of the course numbers can be repeated twice for credit.