e-Learning Design Graduate Credit Certificate Program

Through this 9-credit certificate program, students will develop an understanding of design issues and technologies needed to deliver online teaching and learning experiences for adults. Students completing this certificate will be prepared to work in corporate, agency, and military training departments; entrepreneurial consulting companies; adult-serving non-profits, community college learning resource centers; and colleges and universities.

Effective Semester: Spring 2026
Expiration Semester: Spring 2031

Admission Requirements

Applicants apply for admission to the program via the Graduate School application for admission. Requirements listed here are in addition to Graduate Council policies listed under GCAC-300 Admissions Policies. International applicants may be required to satisfy an English proficiency requirement; see GCAC-305 Admission Requirements for International Students for more information.

Certificate Requirements

Requirements listed here are in addition to requirements listed in Graduate Council policy GCAC-212 Postbaccalaureate Credit Certificate Programs.

Requirements listed here are in addition to requirements listed in Graduate Council policy GCAC-212 Postbaccalaureate Credit Certificate Programs.

Courses

Graduate courses carry numbers from 500 to 699 and 800 to 899. Advanced undergraduate courses numbered between 400 and 499 may be used to meet some graduate degree requirements when taken by graduate students. Courses below the 400 level may not. A graduate student may register for or audit these courses in order to make up deficiencies or to fill in gaps in previous education but not to meet requirements for an advanced degree.

Learning Outcomes

1. Know: Graduates will demonstrate their ability to design and develop instructional content that is aligned with the needs and constraints of the target learner audience, the sponsoring organization, the topics to be covered, and the available technology to enhance learning.
2. Apply: Graduates will demonstrate the ability to analyze and integrate teaching/learning technologies to unique educational contexts in accordance with the core theories and best practices in LDT.

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