Meet the LDT Faculty
Learning Design & Technology
The University of Colorado Denver's Learning Design and Technology (LDT) program offers graduate and undergraduate opportunities:
- MA in Learning Design and Technology
- Graduate-level certificates in Designing and Facilitating Online Learning, Leadership for Learning Design and Technology, and Learning-centered Instructional Design
- Minor in Digital Media Design for Learning
- EdD in Leadership for Equity - Learning Design
The LDT program focuses on the use of learning design and technology to better support learning and engagement in a variety of settings. LDT students complete fully online courses that address relevant, emerging learning design and technology topics such as inclusive and accessible design, design justice, open and critical digital pedagogy, creative digital media design and development, blended and online teaching and learning, and leadership for learning design and technology.
Student Resources
Master of Arts in Learning Design & Technology
Degree Earned: MA Endorsement Classroom Type: Fully Online 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.Master of Arts in Learning Design & Technology, Digital Media for Teaching and Learning, St. Vrain Valley School District Cohort
Degree Earned: MA Classroom Type: Online and on campus classes Equips educators with teacher leadership skills which include inquiry-based learning design, mentoring and coaching strategies, professional learning design and facilitation strategies, and knowledge of emerging technologies that will engage students and colleagues in today’s flipped classrooms, remote, and hybrid learning environments.Graduate Certificate in Learner-centered Instructional Design
Degree Earned: Graduate Certificate Classroom Type: Fully Online 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.Graduate Certificate in Designing and Facilitating Online Learning
Degree Earned: Graduate Certificate Classroom Type: Fully Online 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 Leadership for Learning Design and Technology
Degree Earned: Graduate Certificate Classroom Type: Fully Online 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.Minor in Digital Media Design for Learning
Degree Earned: Minor Classroom Type: Fully Online The Digital Media Design for Learning minor focuses on using digital and social media platforms and technologies to design and produce accessible materials and learning experiences for people in school, organizational, and community settings. Doctor of Education in Leadership for Educational Equity, Learning Design
Degree Earned: EdD Classroom Type: Fully Online 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.My experience in the LDT program has been extremely valuable and I appreciate the support and instruction I have received along the way. I feel much more prepared as an educator and I am better equipped to be a leader in eLearning and design in any context (K-12, adult learning). One of my main goals in enrolling in the LDT program was to become a leader in an educational environment that is constantly changing and evolving. I knew that by keeping a status quo mindset in my career in education would potentially result in burnout. I wanted to grow as a professional within the field of education, so I analyzed ways in which I could do this. The first thing that came to mind was educational technologies. In the LDT program, I can positively say that I achieved this goal.
Kevin McDougall
Spring 2020 MA graduate