oNLINE programs
Learning Design and Leadership
Bilingual & ESL Education Provides teachers with a better understanding of key teaching strategies to support multi-linguistic students. It provides teachers the knowledge needed to teach in a bilingual/ESL school or workplace. Certificate: 3 courses Endorsement: 5 courses
Learning Design and Leadership (LDL) provides educators and training/learning development professionals the opportunity to learn how to create more engaging learning environments by integrating new media technologies.
Master’s Degree: 8 courses
Foundations of eLearning in Higher Education Designed to enable the understanding of the design, development, evaluation and management of eLearning programs and systems across organizations utilizing immersive learning technology. Certificate: 3 courses Master’s Degree: 8 courses
Learning Design and Leadership General
A degree in learning design and leadership
Provides educators and training/learning
will prepare you to: • Understand the ways in which students can be active designers of their own knowledge.
development professionals the opportunity to learn how to create more engaging learning environments by integrating new
• Develop skills in new digital media to enhance the ways students learn and improve the learning process. • Succeed as educators in PK-16 and training/learning development industries and organizations around the world.
media technologies. Students learn to be active designers of their own knowledge. Certificate: 3 courses Master’s Degree: 8 courses
New Learning
Employment Opportunities Learning Design and Leadership offers a number of areas of study designed to meet the needs of educators in public and private classrooms and workplaces, including: teachers, instructional designers, educational
Designed to help teachers (PK-12) create more engaging learning environments for their students and integrate new media and technologies into the classroom.
technology analysists, eLearning consultants, and online learning
It focuses on ways in which students use
designers and developers
new digital-media to enhance learning.
Accreditation
Certificate: 3 courses
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a fully accredited university by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Master’s Degree: 8 courses
Technology Specialist Prepares educators to better understand
Application deadlines
Terms & Course LengTHS
Online programs
Fall/Spring
None
8-week courses Summer
6-week courses
Format
Key features
technology and know how to use it in their
Online
100% faculty-taught
about emerging technologies and their
Synchronously with instructor along with asynchronously forum posting
classroom or workplace. Students learn implications on teaching and learning.
Transferrable courses Competitive tuition rates ccess to A the largest public university library in the United States
Certificate: 3 courses Endorsement: 6 courses Master’s Degree: 8 courses
find out more at education.illinois.edu/online-offcampus or speak with one of our graduate student support services representatives at 217.333.2603 or email connect@education.illinois.edu.
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