Learning, Design, & Technology, M.Ed.

What You’ll Learn 

You will gain confidence with instructional technological and creative practices, build your collaborative skills, and develop a social justice and equity perspective in your approach to contemporary teaching and learning. Through both focused study and faculty interactions, and site-based applications you will explore: 

• Creative Instruction 
• Educational technology  
• Online teaching 
• Instructional design  
• Applied Assessment  
• Design and system thinking  
• Engineering Design 
• Digital learning  
• Diversity studies  
• Ethical leadership  
• Inclusive practice  

Each three-credit course includes an immersion project to complete within your current work as a teacher or librarian or in association with local learning sites.  Courses include project-based assignments that emphasize authentic applied learning in real-world settings. Participants may personalize assignments for their current professional practice.

Outside the Classroom, In the Community 

Vermont State’s Learning, Design, & Technology M.Ed. builds in opportunities to put your new creative design and educational technology skills to work within each course. Accomplish each project within your current role or expand your network by connecting with local schools, libraries, or other organizations where you live.