

The LDIT Program Core Experience (2 credits each semester), in this yearlong curriculum, you will explore how to design learning across a wide variety of settings, from classrooms to conferences and online networks, in architecture, media, and emerging technologies.To fulfill the program requirement, you must take a minimum of 12 credits specific to LDIT, including the following: Your Equity and Opportunity Foundations experience culminates in an elected course, which will take place during terms when electives are available.You will continue Foundations with Leading Change, Evidence, and Equity and Opportunity on campus in August.This program commences with How People Learn, an immersive online course that runs June–July and requires a time commitment of 10-15 hours per week.The Foundation courses (14 credits) - How People Learn, Leading Change, Evidence, and Equity and Opportunity - in which students gain core skills central to the profession of education.The main elements of the 2022–23 academic year curriculum are:

A minimum of 42 credits are required to graduate with an Ed.M. The LDIT Program is designed to help you gain the knowledge and practice the skills essential to designing and implementing learning experiences. Initiate and manage successful design projects and lead collaborative teamwork.Create, evaluate, and improve learning designs and multimedia materials.Determine the aims, specifications, and scope of design work.Envision, design, and deliver learning experiences.In this program we study the evolution and science of learning - exploring the impact of innovations in pedagogy and technology, identifying ways these insights and tools can help us improve learning designs, and making progress toward generating better student outcomes."Īfter completing the LDIT Program, you will have gained a deeper understanding of core competencies that explore how to: "So much of young people’s learning today takes place out of school, and it impacts how we need to design learning experiences. Our LDIT Program will equip you to work in educational media and technology, instructional design, and curriculum development, to create new learning materials and experiences for preK–12 schools, colleges and universities, 21 st century workplaces, and informal settings. You will experience a diverse, inclusive, and high-energy environment, while learning from leading HGSE faculty and top industry practitioners, as well as your fellow cohort members. In our Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology (LDIT) Program, you will tackle promising and challenging frontiers of education - leveraging the science of learning, applying innovations in education technology, and developing powerful pedagogies to improve learning outcomes. Gain the expertise you need to flourish at the frontiers of education - by creating innovations in education technology, leveraging the science of learning, and developing powerful pedagogies.
