Instructional Technology professionals provide critical assistance for national and international education and training initiatives in the 21st century.
The M.Ed. in Instructional Technology prepares education, military, and business and industry professionals to meet the challenges of complex education and training problems. Developing innovative solutions to organizational problems and providing for just-in-time support to employees and learners permits students to develop a variety of instructional technology-related skills. With the advent of the information explosion, industry, the military, and educational systems look for alternative and systematic strategies in the education and training of employees and of children.
These are student comments about our program.
I can see how much thought and planning have gone into the design of this class and how the weekly assignments exactly align with the objectives states in the course syllabus. I don't think that I have EVER been in a university class that has been so well planned. I don't know whether that can be credited to the fact that this is my first distance course or that it is me taught by somy first COPS course, thereby my first college-level courseone who has been taught to teach! - L.J., 2000 IT Student
I learned a tremendous amount in these classes. You've done an outstanding job of putting the classes together, but it's your personal attention to each individual student and your desire that each of us succeed that really makes you stand out as an exceptionally caring and skillful educator. - D.P., 2000 IT Student
I know it is imperative that teachers learn the cyberworld and all it has to offer. Our students are growing up in a world where clicking buttons and surfing the Internet is no more foreign to them than being the first generation to grow up with watching TV was for me. If a teacher is to keep abreast of learning, enhance her lessons and understanding her students then she must learn the world of computers and the Internet. If we do not expand our own learning then we face the reality that our students may become our teachers. If we do not move forward, we will be left standing on the sidelines. Distance Learning provides a wonderful way for teachers to expand their horizons in a flexible and relaxing (sometimes) manner, after teaching all day. - D.S., 2000 IT Student
Our online program guides students through the complex world of technology, through courses in development, telecommunications, leadership, curriculum, and human performance technology.
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