Educational Innovation and Technology, MS

Central to Enhancing Instruction with Technology

Educational (Instructional) Technology is an innovative and practical master’s program that blends instructional design, visualization, and production (technology) processes to enhance classroom instruction. The program’s uniqueness is its curriculum structure, which scaffolds courses to establish linkage and relationship throughout the student’s experience.

The program applies the three processes in a hands-on, project-based experience. Students learn by doing, learning first to design and then to build. Student performance is based on how well the instructional projects are developed. The result is a strong and effective instructional project for the classroom.

Program Features

• Starts every January and August
• 30-credit program, including a research and capstone project
• Attend full- or part-time
• Flexible classes offered in the evening
• Classes are all asynchronous with optional weekly meeting in the lab.
• Courses linked in developmental sequence to provide maximum relevance and unity
• Learning laboratories where students apply learned skills
• Access to excellent faculty mentors
• Financial aid is available
• No GMAT/GRE required

Did You Know?

The annual mean salary of an instructional coordinator in Connecticut was $97k in May 2020. 

Source: bls.gov

How long will it take to complete the program?

Attending part time and enrolling in two courses per term (recommended) as well as summer classes, the program will be completed in two years.

Summer

• EDT 502 Design Tools
• EDT 505 Inquiry in Educational Technology

Fall

• EDT 515 Instructional Design and Evaluation
• EDT 517 Message Design and Production

Spring

• EDT 520 eLearning
• EDT 530 Design of Online Instruction

Summer

• None

Fall

• EDT 525 Instructional Video & Audio

Spring

• EDT 535 Interactive Multimedia for Instruction I
• EDT 597 Final Project Plan

Summer

• EDT 536 Interactive Multimedia for Instruction II Graduate in August

Goal

The design, visualization, & production of effective mediated instruction 

Basic Information

• There are no prerequisites other than basic computer skills (turning on the machine, saving files, browsing the web, etc.). 
• The program offers Mac laptop loaners that can be used for the duration of the program. 
• The Educational Technology master’s program does not offer a teaching certification.
• Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education.  Applicants must also have a minimum undergraduate GPA of 2.70 on a 4.00-point scale (where A is 4.00), or its equivalent, and good standing (3.00 GPA) in all post-baccalaureate coursework.

Online Innovative Features

A. Immediacy of faculty response time for feedback, review, and clarification.
B. Flexibility of instruction to allow students to choose when and how they learn
C. Multiple avenues for communication to allow for maximum connection: virtual chat, in person lab meetings, email, and phone
D. Adapting instruction to meet graduate student's needs, interests and experiences
E. Instructional sequence within modules is flexible.

Delivery of instruction

• All ten courses are asynchronous, self-paced & stand-alone. The program uses two state-of-the-art laboratories to complement course instruction.

Graduate Student Profile

Most students in this program are teachers, including elementary, middle, high school, and specials. The program also attracts noneducators (2%) to move into business, i.e., Training and Development.