The program offers ?preparation in instructional design, technology for training or education, leadership of instructional technology departments, project and design teams or administrative settings. The degree offers an optional Pennsylvania Department of Education Instructional Technologist Specialist certification for candidates wishing to broaden into K-12 or higher education settings. The certification can be earned with or without initial teacher certification. Candidates will have opportunities to prepare training, teach online, participate in technology-enriched fieldwork settings, design instructional modules, conduct Web-based instruction, assess quality programs and practice instructional support techniques for using technology resources.?

Goals

• To offer 21st?century technology training methods and instructional design theory and practice to candidates leading to success in instructional leadership, project team management, human resource development and/or K-12 educational administration.
• To provide candidates with current practices and techniques for implementing technology into training or instruction while meeting standards, assessment data, budgets and other management restrictions or policies.
• To familiarize candidates with emerging technologies, management of information systems, global training and diverse learning, differentiated instruction, and formative/summative measures, research-based practices in training and IDT professional development.??