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The online program is designed for individuals interested in working in a wide variety of education, training, and development areas such as those found in business, industry, government agencies, the military, and nonprofit organizations. This certificate is designed to meet the challenges created by the growing demand for instructional design, eLearning development, and aligning learning results with business results and programs in corporate learning organizations. The program emphasizes the competencies required to design, develop, facilitate, and evaluate learning and development programs.
The goal of the certificate program is to help students meet the qualifications to advance within their current field related to education and training, and open up additional avenues for the students to pursue a career in instructional design or human performance technology.
Through a combination of classroom and hands-on activities, this program provides participants with the opportunity to design, develop, manage, and evaluate corporate learning solutions that make effective use of best practices and industry standards of development. Ample opportunities are provided for applying the competencies learned in the classroom to job- related situations.
Objectives
- Demonstrate knowledge of learning theories and principles, models, tools, and techniques which are applied to the systematic design of corporate learning & development solutions
- Apply instructional design principles to the design, development, and implementation of learning solutions in their work environment.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively lead the design of effective instructional content development through planning, development, evaluation, and management.
- Implement eLearning solutions using Learning Management Systems
- Demonstrate the ability to manage and lead all phases of a corporate learning development project.
- Demonstrate how to link learning results with business objectives and organizational results using learning analytics and impact evaluation processes.
