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Distance Education Emphasis
Distance education focuses on the tools and techniques for designing, producing and facilitating online courses. This emphasis area will be useful to teachers, adult educators, college faculty members and corporate training personnel who are interested in the potential of online classrooms to expand learning opportunities for students and employees. While pursuing the distance education emphasis, you simultaneously can earn the post-baccalaureate certificate (PBC) in online teaching and learning.
Students pursuing the degree with an emphasis in Distance Education must complete 36 semester hours for the MSEd. The below courses are required (listed in numerical order, not in program sequencing order):
- IT 430 - Computer-Based Publishing and Instruction
- IT 486 - Web Design for Instruction
- IT 500 - Principles of Instructional Technology
- IT 596 - Design Studio I
- IT 597 - Design Studio II
- IT 505 - Needs Assessment and Program Evaluation in Instructional Technology
- IT 510 - Instructional Systems Design
- IT 567 - Online Teaching Tools
- IT 568 - Design and Development of Online Lessons, Modules, and Courses
- IT 569 - Facilitating Online Classrooms
- IT 598 - Final Project
- One Educational Psychology Course chosen from the following:
- HESA 514 - College Student Learning and Development
- EPFR 515 - Issues in Learning Theory
- One Analysis of Educational Issues Course chosen from the following:
- EPFR 451 - Gender and Education (not offered in online format)
- EPFR 520 - Philosophical-Historical Foundations
- EPFR 521 - Socio-Cultural Foundations
- HESA 522 - Diversity in Higher Education
