Instructional Science & Technology, Certificate

Required Courses

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  Complete ALL of the following courses:

• IST 522 - Instructional Design Units: 4
• IST 524 - Instructional Technology Units: 4
• IST 526 - Interactive Multimedia Instruc Units: 4

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• Complete TWO of the following courses:

• IST 501 - Technology Workshop Units: 2
• IST 531 - MultimediaTools I: Audio and Video Units: 2
• IST 541 - Multimedia Tools II: Interactive Media Units: 2

Learning Outcomes

Instructional Technology Outcomes

Students are able to:

• Utilize basic terminologies with comprehension;
• Identify various instructional design models;
• Identify major tools, trends, and issues in the field within their historical context;
• Articulate differences between instructional technology, performance technology, and other related concepts;
• Describe the essence of major learning theories and their impact on instructional technology;
• Conduct career planning and lifelong professional development plans; and,
• List and evaluate several possible capstone ideas.

Instructional Design Outcomes

Students are able to:

• Identify, define, analyze, and articulate instructional problems and needs;
• Generate and organize audience appropriate instructional content;
• Develop an effective implementation strategy;
• Create a learning assessment;
• Create and justify a project evaluation plan;
• Apply relevant learning theories to an instructional problem
• Identify and explore diverse instructional products;
• Complete a collaborative instructional design project with design document;
• Create an individual instructional design document;
• Evaluate and critique diverse instructional products and cases;
• Design, develop, and implement a client-based real-world project;
• Demonstrate professional collaboration and communication skills with clients and SMEs; and,
• Apply project management skills.

Interactive Multimedia Outcomes

Students are able to:

• Apply appropriate theories and derived multimedia principles;
• Apply interactive design principles;
• Construct a functioning learning module using interactive multimedia software, information technology, and media based upon appropriate learning theories;
• Develop an interactive multimedia experience with appropriate feedback;
• Select and use appropriate media tools to develop a solution designed for an identified instructional problem;
• Use integrated software help systems, web communities, peer, and instructor support to overcome media tools software learning curves in an adaptable, flexible, proactive manner; and,
• Conduct formative evaluation and obtain documented user feedback.

Breadth of Knowledge

Outcome Students are able to:

• Broaden knowledge and skills that open wider career opportunities.

Pathways