M.Ed. in Educational Technology

Responsibility #1: Leadership and Professional Development. The candidate will demonstrate leadership and continued improvement of professional practice that requires critical inquiry, professional development, and reflective practice (e.g., membership in professional organizations, submission of a paper for publication, attendance at a local, state, regional, or national conferences). The candidate demonstrates knowledge of past, present and future trends in instructional technologies.

Performance indicators:

1.1 Attends minimum of one regional, state or national conferences that directly support professional growth in instructional technologies.

1.2 Joins a minimum of one professional organization.

1.3 Demonstrates acquisition of new technological skills and demonstrates how the technology supports instruction.

1.4 Submits an artifact that describes past, present and possible future trends in instructional technologies and/or ISD. (Could be 4-10 page formal paper or website, wiki, interactive tutorial, movie, etc.)

1.5 Demonstrates professional collaboration, mentoring, or works as a change agent in one's organization.

Responsibility #2: Design. The candidate is knowledgeable of the history of instructional systems design and development. The candidate will design instruction (or human performance strategies) to meet the needs of learners. Design documents and projects must show evidence of analysis of problem situation, awareness of unique characteristics of intended audience and implications for instruction, selection and implementation instructional strategies consistent with analysis of the learning situation and intended learners, selection and justification of appropriate medias, and evidence of both formative and summative evaluation strategies.

Performance indicators:

2.1 Demonstrates ability to perform analysis and documentation of instructional need or opportunity resulting in a student-centered, performance based instructional objective based upon, and appropriate for, a specific audience.

 2.2 Demonstrates ability to perform comprehensive task analysis of an instructional objective.

 2.3 Demonstrates ability to select and integrate into instruction multiple, research-based, instructional strategies.

2.4 Demonstrates ability to select appropriate assessment instruments.

2.5 Demonstrates ability to use formative evaluations for iterative assessments of components of design process.

 
Responsibility #3: Development, Utilization and Management. The candidate will develop, utilize and manage a variety of media and instructional technologies to deliver instruction to students.

 Performance indicators:

 3.1 Demonstrates use of a minimum of three different medias to support and/or deliver instruction. Candidate provides research-based rationale for media selection and selection and utilization of technologies for learning.

 3.2 Demonstrates ability to manage projects and evaluate progress and improvement.

Responsibility #4: Evaluation. The candidate uses incisive and relevant assessment and evaluation techniques (e.g., product or project which uses formative and/or summative evaluations). Candidate demonstrates the ability to evaluate quality of instructional materials and instructional systems using appropriate methodologies. Candidate also demonstrates the ability to use formative and summative assessment methodologies to ascertain the effectiveness of instruction in meeting instructional goals.

Performance indicators:

4.1 Demonstrates ability to use both formative and summative strategies to evaluate the quality of instruction.

 4.2 Demonstrates ability to select a variety of appropriate assessment instruments and use those instruments to assess effectiveness of instruction in meeting instructional objectives.

4.3 Can document results from formative evaluations and use those results to revise instructional materials, and/or instructional development process.

Responsibility #5: Research. The candidate collects, evaluates, and synthesizes research from a variety of appropriate sources in order to support decision-making in design, development, implementation and evaluation of instructional systems.

 Performance indicators:

5.1 Demonstrates ability to conduct comprehensive literature review and provide summation of a relevant topic in instructional technology.

5.2 Uses research in instructional technology to justify academic decisions in course work projects and professional work-related responsibilities.

5.3 Uses research to justify selections of instructional strategies.

Responsibility #6: Collaboration. The candidate demonstrates the ability to form electronic teams in order to identify and solve problems and opportunities in the field of instructional technology. The candidate demonstrates effective team building skills in a distributed collaboration environment, and demonstrates how candidate’s own students can take advantage of electronic collaboration for distributed team building.

 Performance indicators:

6.1 Demonstrates the ability to team electronically with professionals to identify instructional problems or opportunities and devise appropriate solutions.

 6.2 Identifies trends in distributed instruction.

6.3 Demonstrates effective utilization of tools necessary to implement distributed instruction.