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Two instructors for the Certificate in E-Learning Instructional Design discuss how the program provides students with the latest knowledge and skills they need to forge a successful career in this growing field, whether they want to work in the education sector or the corporate world. Visit the website to learn more:
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Video Transcript:

[Liz]
The access potential for online learning is one of the most exciting things about e-learning. People who would not normally have access to these educational and training opportunities can when the learning environments are online.

[Matt]
So we try to walk the line about balancing the content between the educational world and the corporate world since we have people in our program who are working in both environments and pursuing career advancements in both areas.

[Liz]
In the academic world, that means broad access to people who are working full time, have families and other responsibilities, can’t go the path of the traditional student. It can mean geographically diverse access.

[Matt]
In the corporate context, it usually manifests as producing learning materials for staff training and internal training, and often e-learning is turned to because it's a more scalable resource and a lower-cost resource than in-person training.

[Liz]
The first course, which is the one that I teach, it’s designing e-learning environments. So students learn how to use multi-media effectively, how to include elements that engage the learner and keep them interested.

[Matt]
The course that I teach, the managing and developing, is more about the practical hands-on application of developing that content with authoring tools, working with subject matter experts, managing projects and tasks, developing story boards and executing prototypes and eventually a final product, whatever that product is.

[Liz]
And then, in the third course, it focuses on evaluation or assessment – how do you tell if your e-learning is working, what metrics do you use to evaluate your ROI. And then we also have a very exciting practicum course, which is the last course in the series. And that’s when students work on a project of their own choosing and leverage all that they’ve learned throughout the previous three courses to create a module, or part of a larger sequence, that’s relevant to them personally.

[Liz]
The designing and developing e-learning certificate program is entirely online and asynchronous. Students can access it anytime, anyplace.

[Matt]
This course is great for working professionals in that most of the readings and the exercises can be done on their own pace within, usually, a general week time frame for the assignments.

We have great instructors in this program, and we have a lot of guest speakers who are part of our advisory board and they span all of the top businesses in the Puget Sound area, from BECU to Boeing to Amazon to F-5 Networks, and it’s really the best and the brightest talent in this industry in the region that participate in this program.

[Matt]
Some students go on to get instructional designer or training delivery roles or e-learning developer roles within big, large corporate corporations like Amazon and Microsoft. I've also seen students advance in their personal career, whether that's in an educational environment or a university environment.

[Liz]
I would say having a credential from a well-respected institution, like the University of Washington, really increases your chances of being hired out of school. There are other programs, but very few of them focus this intensely on what's really necessary in the field.

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You already have a Bachelors. Does it make sense to get a certificate or go for an advanced degree? Does this answer change for jobs in higher ed or corporate? Here is Dr. Kapp's perspectives on these questions.

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Instructional Design Certificate
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Online Professional Development
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Learn how to create online courses that work efficiently. By understanding how people learn and how to design the experience conceptually and aesthetically, you can shape an effective and engaging learning experience.

E-Learning and Online Teaching Program: Augmented reality overview. This is a walk and talk overview of our program done with the help of the Zooburst Augmented reality online tool set.

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Enhance your skills, grow your career by earning an online graduate certificate. Use your certificate course work as electives in the MSE program. Take seven additional core courses to earn your Master's degree.

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In our first playlist episode on Certificates and Certifications, we had a lot of questions for Christy Tucker about graduate certificates.

Christy is a Learning Experience Design Consultant at Syniad Learning and has done a great deal of research on grad certificates, which she's posted about on her blog.

In fact, when I was researching this topic, Christy's articles came up so many times it only made sense to invite her on to the broadcast.

So the post this conversation is primarily based on, is titled similarly: Instructional Design Certificate or Master's Degree?

You will learn more than you expected in this conversation. Christy answered more than a dozen questions on this topic, and I'd say the one thing that stood out to me is not necessarily the importance of the grad certificate or the Master's degree, but the portfolio you create.

So give this one a listen, if you're interested in this topic, you're sure to enjoy it - Christy was a wonderful guest and you can find her blog at christytuckerlearning.com/.

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Kevin W. Tharp reflects on the first year of participating in a Universal Design for Learning project at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI.

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