Learning Design & Technology

Master of Arts in Learning Design & Technology

Degree Earned: MA Endorsement CU Denver’s Learning Design & Technology program is unique. Students combine 12-credit certificates to create customized paths based on each individual’s career interests and goals.

Graduate Certificate in Leadership for Learning Design and Technology

Degree Earned: Graduate Certificate CU Denver’s Leadership for Learning Design and Technology certificate focuses on transformative change, culture, and initiative for modern learning organizations; with distinct themes of vision building, culture shifting, innovation nurturing, business modeling, and knowledge management.

Graduate Certificate in Designing and Facilitating Online Learning

Degree Earned: Graduate Certificate CU Denver’s Designing and Facilitating Online Learning certificate focuses on effective online and hybrid learning designs, high-impact practices, and modern learners. You’ll explore distinct themes of instructional design for asynchronous and synchronous learning, inclusive pedagogies, active learning, and emerging pedagogies.

Graduate Certificate in Learner-centered Instructional Design

Degree Earned: Graduate Certificate CU Denver’s Learner-centered Instructional Design certificate focuses on human centered design, learning engagement and motivation, and learning frameworks. You’ll explore distinct themes of design-thinking, learning aesthetics, universal design, and system usability.

Minor in Digital Media Design for Learning

Degree Earned: Minor The Digital Media Design for Learning minor focuses on using digital and social media platforms and technologies to design and produce learning experiences and materials for people in school, organizational, and community settings. ­

Doctor of Education in Leadership for Educational Equity, Learning Design

Degree Earned: EdD The Learning Design concentration engages doctoral students in the creation, implementation, and study of learning design, learner-centered design approaches, and design-justice practices across academic, corporate, and community settings. Doctoral coursework is grounded in literature about equity-oriented learning; principles of design justice and learner-centered design; the impact of learning design on individuals and communities; and design-based research methods. Students who pursue this concentration are guided to implement doctoral research that centers the role and value of lived experience and directly influences real-world problems of professional practice.
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