Create Quality Learning Experiences With the Hottest Job in Education Today
You can help reshape today’s educational process so that it will be relevant to the current generation of students.
The Master of Arts in Instructional Design and Technology will prepare you to apply cutting edge technologies and instructional design strategies to create quality learning experiences in public schools, higher education institutions, and corporate and non-profit organizations. Three areas of competencies are featured: networks, instructional design and development, and use of software and multimedia.
The recent rapid transition to online education and training has created a demand for professionals who can apply new instructional design strategies for remote learning. As a result, Instructional Design and Technology is one of the hottest jobs in the education field today.
In higher education, instructional designers develop online courses or work with faculty to create interactive classroom components. In addition, the IDT degree provides the foundation for doctoral study.
Major features of the program include course preparation in educational psychology, instructional design, multimedia, and research methods. The Learning Goals for the program are to advance knowledge and critical thinking relative to instructional design and instructional technologies.
The Master of Arts in Instructional Design and Technology is offered entirely online and consists of 30 credit hours in areas such as educational psychology and program evaluation to provide the foundation for designing, implementing, and revising educational products and working with real clients. The courses follow the WVU semester schedule, running 15 weeks over the Fall and Spring semesters and variable length—usually 4-6 weeks—during the summer session. Upon acceptance, students are assigned an advisor based on their interests and goals. They will subsequently develop a program of study, which is a plan for courses and the development of an educational focus of interest.
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