From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Master of Education in Education Policy, Organization & LeadershipBecome an instructional designer and master the art and science of learning with a top-ranking education school.
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If you're admitted to the full Master's program, the credit from your MasterTrack® Certificate counts towards your degree
Gain in-demand skills and launch your instructional design career with an in-depth training program. Learners that devote four hours per week to this certificate program can expect to finish in approximately 4-5 months.
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Bachelor's Degree required
Please contact the University of Illinois College of Education at 217-300-2725 or mtcinstructionaldesign@education.illinois.edu.
If you are admitted to the full Master’s program, your MasterTrack® Certificate will count towards your degree
With MasterTrack® Certificates, portions of Master’s programs have been split into online modules, so you can earn a high quality university-issued career credential at a breakthrough price in a flexible, interactive format. Benefit from a deeply engaging learning experience with real-world projects and live, expert instruction. If you are accepted to the full master's program, your MasterTrack® coursework counts towards your degree.
Take an online module of a master's degree program that features live expert instruction and feedback combined with interactive team-based learning.
Receive a university-issued MasterTrack® Certificate from a top university that you can add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Demonstrate your skills through real-world projects and create work samples that help you stand out in your job search.
If you are accepted to the full master’s program, your completed coursework counts towards your degree.
You'll learn through readings, videos, graded assignments, real-world applied projects, and live global classroom sessions.
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In this dynamic course you will learn key components of training system design rooted in content development and variants of learning theories behind instructional design. This course will prepare you to work with subject matter experts (SMEs) in selecting, organizing and developing effective training content. You will gain deep understanding of how people learn cognitively and emotionally so that the development of training content and design will be more tailored, meaningful and engaging.
As a senior instructional designer in your organization, you are asked to design, develop and implement an education program to fulfill the learning needs of your target audience. In this project, you will play a key role in defining the program objectives, choosing the right technologies, partnering with critical stakeholders and evaluating the outcomes. All the artifacts that you produced in this project (learner analysis report, curriculum outline, program implementation plan, etc.) will be saved to your e-portfolio and contribute to your career advancement.
In this project, you will be presented a complex learning system design case and asked to work on an innovative solution. You’re challenged to synthesize all the instructional design models and come up with a customized plan to address the unique organization needs. You need to optimize the learning outcomes by choosing the appropriate learning theories and technologies. This case study will bring you to the next-level of instructional design expertise and prepare you to handle large-scale projects in the future.
Graduates of the Instructional Design MasterTrack® Certificate will be considered for opportunities, when available, at these hiring partner organizations: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Coursera.
Associate Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Associate Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Assistant Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Research Assistant Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Teaching Associate Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Associate Professor and Interim Head, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Coursera does not grant academic credit; the decision to grant, accept, or recognize academic credit, and the process for awarding such credit, is at the sole discretion of the academic institutions offering the MasterTrack® Certificate program and/or other institutions that have determined that completion of the program may be worthy of academic credit. Completion of a MasterTrack® Certificate program does not guarantee admission into the full Master’s program referenced herein, or any other degree program.
