MA in Educational Technology and Learning Design

The Master of Arts in Educational Technology and Learning Design (ETLD) is an interdisciplinary program designed for individuals from diverse backgrounds, where faculty and students engage in authentic learning activities using educational and artificial intelligence technologies. Through the program, the participants explore innovative educational technologies enhanced by AI, creating dynamic personal and networked learning environments.  Students engage with emerging tools that support personalized learning experiences, including AI-enabled analytics, adaptive platforms, and intelligent feedback systems, alongside established tools for networking, communication, immersive environments, simulations, games, resource sharing, multimedia content creation, and collaborative projects.

This program is appropriate for current instructional designers or those pursuing instructional design careers in college, school, or professional organization training environments. K-12 teachers seeking professional certification benefit from this program's integration of innovative tools and teaching methodologies.  Community College faculty and others interested in expanding their understanding of instructional technology and learning design, engage in this program for increased specialization.  Additional options exist for artists, arts educators, and those interested in Science, Math, Technology, and Engineering focus, including AI applications in these domains.  Students join a community of practice that models innovative interactions and creative, problem-based activities enabled by educational technology and AI tools, preparing them for the evolving landscape of technology-enhanced learning. 

Advantages:

• Study anytime, anywhere. All courses take place online.
• Tailor your studies to your goals. Students shape their experience in each course to align with their own projects, objectives and vision. Course formats frequently change to accommodate the unique needs of each class.
• Connect with accomplished peers. In this environment, students continually collaborate and draw on one another’s perspectives.
• Earn an innovative degree. Students graduate not just with a firm grasp of the latest platforms and tools, but also with the capacity to evaluate future innovations, enabling them to adapt easily to new technologies in the years to come.

Program Design

The MA in Educational Technology and Learning Design program offers a 30-credit professional-focused curriculum. There are five core courses (15 credits), four electives in the area of concentration (12 credits), and a capstone course (final professional project in the student’s area of interest 3 credits.) Students can choose to embed a certificate program for the electives or individualize the electives to support the capstone study.

Required Core Courses and Capstone

• EDET 6005 Learning and Emerging Technologies: Theory and Practice, 3cr
• EDET 6010 Media Literacies in Emerging Technologies, 3cr
• EDET 6015 Instructional Design for Online Learning Environments, 3cr
• EDET 6020 Issues and Ethics in the Digital Age, 3cr
• EDET 6080 Evaluation, Assessment, and Data-Driven Learning Design, 3cr
• EDET 7020 Capstone Project, 3cr

Electives and Advanced Certificates

Students can choose individualized electives, or they may embed a certificate program* into their degree plans by incorporating the courses of those certificates into the degree to satisfy its electives component.

• Advanced Certificate Instructional Design and Emerging Technologies
• Advanced Certificate Teaching and Training with Technology
• Advanced Certificate STEM Education and Emerging Technologies
• Advanced Certificate Emerging Media and Technology for the Arts
• Advanced Certificate or Certificate of Advanced Study Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)**

Please see the School for Graduate Studies Academic Catalog for detailed program information including recommended course enrollment sequencing and descriptions.

*Students must apply to a certificate program separately from the master's degree application.

**To embed the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, the required course EDUC 6082 Research-Based Methods for the certificate will substitute the required educational technology course EDET 6025 Assessment. To receive a certification and enter the program, students must meet the prerequisites listed on the  TESOL certificates page.