e-Learning Professional Concentration
Last Updated: January, 2013
Description:
Advances in digital and information technology have greatly impacted the
future of education. As a result, textbook industries, course material
delivery systems, and educational administration practices have made
radical shifts in how education operates. The e-Learning Professional
provides practical guidelines for the creation of powerful,
e-learning-based performance solutions. e-Learning is not only emerging
rapidly in schools from K-12 to higher education but also in businesses
and at home. The e-Learning Professional concentration is designed to
give graduates of this program a studied and practiced entry into one of
the top twenty new jobs that did not exist ten years ago.
Additional Admissions Requirements:
Applicants must write a personal statement discussing their experiences,
goals, and aspirations as an e-Learning Professional. A
minimum 2.75 GPA on the last 60 hours of undergraduate credit hours must
be earned.
Learner Outcomes:
Achievement Level Descriptors:
- A
mastering level of knowledge expected of an e-Learning Professional.
- A
mastering ability to employ writing and rhetorical strategies to a
discipline-defined range of professional documents.
- A
mastering ability to assess the quality of and edit professional documents.
- A
mastering understanding and use of technology to develop, create, exchange,
edit and re-exchange professional documents.
Performance
Level Descriptors
- Identify a broad
series of strategies for effective professional and rhetorical communication
- Research and
identify effective and appropriate social and professional practices and protocol
- Assess and
identify audience for effective professional and workplace communication
- Engage in
professional conversational skills like the following: Negotiation, Meeting and
Group Interaction, Product Presentation, Meeting and Greeting, and Wireless
& Digitized Communication
- Edit one’s own and
others’ written and digitized communication within the workplace
- Use writing guides
and handbooks to edit documents according to the rules and formats of
standardized methods—such as MLA, APA, Chicago.
- Engage in the use
of digital and technical devices and tools for effective rhetorical
communication
Curriculum:
| MLS Core |
10 hours required |
|
IDS 801
|
Introduction to Graduate Liberal Studies |
1
|
IDS 802
|
Ways of Knowing in Comparative Perspective |
3
|
IDS 803
|
Origins and Implications of the Knowledge Society
|
3 |
IDS 804
|
Information Literacy
|
3
|
| Concentration |
18 hours required |
|
GLE 660
GLE 680 |
e-Learning Professional
Social Networking Management |
6 |
AEP 800
EDL 800
GBUS 802
GLE 680
INT 650
MKT 603
BCOM 601
BCOM 680
COMM 606
GLE 610
LDRS 800
MGT 605
MGT 622
MKT 609 |
Utilization of Technology in Classrooms
History of American Education
Management and Marketing Concepts
Social Networking Management
Interactive Systems Design
Customer Service and Relationship Management
Managerial Communication
Corporate Communication
Conflict Management through Communication
Topics in Contemporary Assessment
Organizational Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Service and Operations Management
Strategic Electronic Marketing |
12
|
| IDS 820 |
Projects in Liberal/Professional Studies |
3 |
| |
TOTAL |
31 |
Program Advisor/Contact:
Dr. Dan Kulmala, Chair, Department of Modern Languages