Master of Art Degree
The Master of Art degree in education with a concentration in educational technology enables students to prepare for careers as instructional technologists, educational specialists, instructional designers, trainers, and experts in educational computing. State-of-the-art coursework and internships in companies, agencies and schools prepare candidates to analyze performance problems and design, develop and evaluate instructional strategies and products. Students graduate with a portfolio including educational computer software, instructional print materials, video, and interactive video programs.
Certificate Programs
The Department of Educational Technology offers an Instructional Technology Certificate for those who wish to develop or enhance professional skills in instructional technology. Instructional technology certificate graduates are headed for, or already employed in, careers in public and private education, corporate or military training and performance technology, and educational and instructional multimedia and product development. The program's students come from a variety of settings including education, business, the military, and media production. They represent a host of other backgrounds ranging from lifeguard to accountant and graphic artist to retired executive.
The department also offers two graduate-level certificates: Instructional Software Design Certificate (18 units) and Advanced Distance Education Certificate (15 units).
The Advanced Instructional Design Certificate targets learning professionals who want to hone their instructional design, facilitation, consultation, or project management skills. Graduates of this program take the lead in conceptualizing and producing a wide variety of learning interventions---from self-paced "overview" tutorials to complex electronic performance systems to podcasts and vodcasts. Students tend to have high-level roles in the learning enterprise, no matter the setting in which they happen to work (K-12, higher education, business, nonprofit, military, government).
The Advanced Distance Education Certificate provides necessary skills to in-service managers, instructors, instructional designers, evaluators, local site systems and programs in higher education, K-12, business, and government, including personnel in law enforcement, and the military.