IDT COURSES
As a professional in my field, I have had held a variety of roles throughout my degree. Take a look below to learn more about my background and experience.
Inquiry & Measurment
This is a foundational course that addresses inquiry and measurement concepts at a level appropriate for master's degree students. Through this course, students will learn concepts and acquire skills that will help them make data-based decisions related to learning and human performance.
Theories of Learning & Cognition
This course is designed to provide the learner with the distinctions and concepts necessary to apply various theories of learning, cognition, and instruction to traditional and distance learning settings. These theories are tools that educators, administrators, instructors, counselors, parents, and many others can use to make their endeavors more productive and useful. The learner will be introduced to and expected to illustrate the proper use of these tools in providing insights into defining and solving problems. The emphasis will always be on the use of these theories to solve realistic and relevant problems drawn from your own personal experience or from cases we will study.
Trends & Issues
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Systematic IDT
The purpose of this course is to enable students to employ systematic instructional design procedures. As a result, students who successfully complete this course should be able to design a unit of instruction by using systematic instructional design procedures. The focus of this course is the application of instructional design principles to create instructional content that can be delivered to a target group of learners.
Field Internship
This field internship is designed to provide on-the-job experience in developing instructional design and technology competencies. Students will apply the skills and knowledge learned during their instructional design and technology program to a real-world workplace. I partnered with a teacher in NY who was in need of assistance in course content creation as well as rolling her class lessons into an online format for the 2020-2021 school yaer.
Advanced Seminar
Discuss advanced topics in instructional design (ID), such as new ID models and innovative approaches to ID research. Invited specialists present lectures and lead discussions on current topics and projects. The students will discuss and contribute to each of these topics. Additionally, this course covers ethics, contract negotiations, professional development, networking, stakeholder interactions, interviewing skills, instructional development and advanced presentation skills. This course requires the completion of a field internship and/or an advanced instructional design project for a field-based stakeholder as well as a comprehensive exam (professional portfolio).
Principles of Learner Motivation
This course focuses on theories and concepts of human motivation. Students explore what motivates students to learn, and examine strategies, techniques, and interventions that promote and sustain learner motivation. This course may be offered face-to-face or in hybrid mode.
Management of Change
This course is designed for students to be able to introduce an instructional or non-instructional change initiative in an organizational environment and plan to implement that change and monitor its progress based on their understanding of the systemic functions of the organization. These activities will take place in the context of human performance technology and with the purpose of improving organizational performance based on a systemic analysis of the organization.
Management of Instructional Development
This course is designed to help students understand and comprehend project management principles while engaging in the practice of project management. In this course, students will be provided the appropriate scaffolding and instruction in order to gain the basic skills necessary to successfully lead a project team.
Communication Program of Study
This program opened my eyes to the vast opportunities that media studies has to offer. Read below for insight into my bachelor degree experience.
Mass Media And Society
Studies the fundamentals of communication theory to provide a foundation for understanding how the mass media work, how they influence us, how we can analyze them, and how we can effectively use them. Students can apply these critical skills to their roles as responsible consumers and communication professionals.
Human Development and Learning
The course introduces the topic of human development, integrating basic concepts of physical, intellectual, cognitive, psychological, social, and emotional development of children, youth, and adults at each major life stage, adopting a developmental psychology perspective. Theoretical viewpoints and recent research are considered with respect to the practical application of psychosocial theory emphasizing the interaction of human development and learning.
Visual Litracy
It is one of the great ironies of contemporary existence that we are beset, informed, controlled, and constructed by images, yet we receive almost no formal training in understanding and creating visual communication. Visual Literacy addresses this issue through an interdisciplinary study of the terminology and theory of visual communication, with special emphasis on the relationship of visuality and cultural practice. Considering ideas from art history, photography, film, mass media, and cultural studies, students are asked to analyze visual rhetoric, begin to see critically, articulate meaning, and author visual rhetoric of their own.
Digital Media
A studio/performance-oriented course that introduces electronic and digital tools for use in diverse media projects. Covers the history, evolution, and theory of relevant technology in order to provide context for the hardware and software used in the class.
Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship teaches digital media production as a means of identity exploration, ethical formation, and civic engagement. Through sound and image capture, editing, and distribution, students will learn to better recognize and more effectively advocate solutions to social problems and thereby develop the necessary skills to go from casual users of contemporary technologies to digital rhetoricians practicing active, engaged citizenship.
Principles of PR
This is an introductory course to public relations communication. The primary objectives of this course are to help students recognize the basic concepts and principles of public relations, to help them gain an understanding of the social importance of public relations in our community and organizations, and to help students personalize these concepts to their professional career interests.
Introduction to Organizational Communication
This course introduces students to theory, research, and applied practice in the study of organizational communication. Students will explore the role human communication plays in structuring, maintaining, and changing organizations, and they will explore specific issues within the study of organizational communication including socialization, decision-making, conflict, stress and burnout, cultural diversity, and external communication.
Media Writing
An introduction to the principles and practices of writing for major types of mass communication media, with an emphasis on content, organization, conciseness, and clarity. Students learn different styles of writing for print media, broadcast media, the Web, advertising, and public relations. This course also discusses the ethical and legal implications of writing for the media.
Digital Communication & Society
This is a course in the politics, economics, and technologies of the information age. Areas covered include basic designs of the new technologies, marketing strategies utilized to bring them to the public, and the social changes that may ensue. Emphasis is on the merger of telephone, television, and computer technologies at the consumer level, and state-of-the-art developments within institutions.
Intercultural Communication
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the socio-cultural dynamics that affect the communication process. Students focus on their own cultural world view as they are exposed to the cultural dynamics and characteristics of other societies. Emphasis is placed upon the nonverbal and oral/visual aspects of communication content, structure, and context.
Writing for Broadcast News
This course covers the elements of broadcast news writing and production, including the structure of radio and television news and feature stories, research and interviewing techniques, ''package'' production, and ethical considerations.
Communication and Law
Communication and Law is the study of concepts, policies, laws, and court decisions that affect communication in our society. Through text, scholarly and popular articles, sound and video recordings, court decisions, lectures, and class participation, we explore critical legal principles of civilized democratic society and the range of laws that protect or restrain communication within it. In addition to examining such principles and laws for their own merit (or lack of it), the course provides a practical basis upon which students who seek to become communications professionals can identify legal issues that will influence their professional conduct.
Communication and Media Ethics
This course examines the practice of public communication, particularly advertising and public relations, in a manner intended to make students more critical observers and to prepare them to be ethical practitioners who are aware of their influence. The unique and problematic nature of contemporary professional advocacy will be the focus of reading, research, analysis, and deliberation.
Writing for PR
This course involves training in theory, form, and style for writing public relations materials for all stages and types of public relations campaigns. This course is designed to provide students with a broad range of public relations writing skills utilized in the industry.