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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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:
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