Instructional Design and Performance Improvement Emphasis
Instructional design and performance improvement focuses on skills necessary for careers in corporations, institutions of higher education, healthcare organizations and nonprofits. Students who graduate from this emphasis become multimedia learning technologists, curriculum writers, instructional designers, performance improvement specialists and learning consultants. In this emphasis, you will learn how to identify gaps in human performance and improve people’s knowledge and skills in ways that close the gap. Graduates from this emphasis have been hired by Elsevier Publishing Company, Federal Reserve Bank, Anheuser-Busch InBev, The Boeing Co., and a variety of other regional, national and international organizations. As you complete this emphasis, you can simultaneously earn the post-baccalaureate certificate (PBC) in instructional design.
Students pursuing the degree with an emphasis in Instructional Design and Performance Improvement 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 598 - Final Project
- IT 505 - Needs Assessment and Program Evaluation in Instructional Technology
- IT 510 - Instructional Systems Design
- IT 520 - Performance Technology
- IT 530 - Managing Instructional Development
- One Distance Education Course chosen from the following:
- IT 540 - Distance Education
- IT 567 - Online Teaching Tools
- IT 568 - Design and Development of Online Lessons, Modules, and Courses
- IT 569 - Facilitating Online Classrooms
- 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
- EPFR 520 - Philosophical-Historical Foundations
- EPFR 521 - Socio-Cultural Foundations
- HESA 522 - Diversity in Higher Education
