Have you ever wanted to:

Apply Innovative Techniques to your own
organization?
Develop skills in designing and creating
products using emerging practices and technologies?

Then, join us for an Interactive Distance Learning program, ETMS. ETMS is extremely flexible in delivering a program that can be aligned to your education and training professional needs. Within ETMS, you can elect to specialize in Instructional Technology and Human Performance Technology or pursue a general education and training program of study.

The ETMS program offers:

• Learning situated in real-world context
• Collaboration with others online
• Access at the time and place convenient to you
• Online mentors to assist you with problems and issues
• Innovative COPS faculty as instructors and guides
• Current practices in education and training

Our students share their thoughts about distance learning at UWF:

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

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

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

These are the type of instructors who make the monitor disappear, providing their learners the chance to know them and each other. Communication between instructor and learner, learner and learner, and group to group becomes seamless thanks to the hard work and dedication of these instructors and others like them who embrace the online concept and understand its value to the individual learner, the school, and the community both local and global. UWF instructors bring their knowledge base of curriculum content and assessment they employ in brick and mortar classes to the online learning environment. Although they are separated from their students by physical distance, these instructors aided by technology personnel bridge that distance by creating online modules with lesson plans, individual and group projects, research papers, chat sessions, peer-to-peer discussions, and mid-term and final assessments. - P.D., 2007

The UWF College of Professional Studies offers its ETMS masters program completely at a distance through the World Wide Web. In operation since Fall, 1999, our first students with a specialization in Instructional Technology graduated in Summer, 2001. The program is applied in nature and is designed based on strong theoretical principles that support education and trainingin a wide variety of environments. We have students participating in classes all over the world.

Throughout the IT program, students develop expertise in using emerging technologies to support teaching and learning, as they design and develop instruction, investigate how technology can be used to change institutions and organizations, and design and develop strategies to integrate technology into learning communities.

In the HPT specialization, students focus on integrating the processes, procedures, and theories related to the HPT Process model into the various roles played by Human Performance Consultants. Applying the theories and practices learned in the classes, our students immediately use their experiences back in their own organizations. The HPT Certificate is also available via mobile delivery (visit the UWF Pocket Campus).

Our students develop their own exciting, innovative learning community that leads them to form friendships that continue after their graduation. We have an entremely high rentention rate -- over 90% of the students admitted in our first class (Fall, 1999) graduated by the Fall Term of 2001!

Our graduates are employed in education and training organizations, the military, and public and private schools (PK-12, community colleges, and universities) as teachers, technology coordinators, and district technology support personnel; in the military and business and industry as human performance consultants (analysts, solution specialists, change managers, and evaluators), instructional designers and developers, and instructional project managers; and as distance learning professionals.

This 36-hour program can be completed in 6 semesters (2 years), taking taking 2 courses per term. Out-of-state students can apply for an out-of-state fee waiver (visit Online Campus for details).

For information about the program, its requirements or with any questions, contact Dr. Karen Rasmussen, 1-850-474-3372 or at 1-888-529-1823.

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