Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design & Technology at University of North Dakota

Update your instructional design skills with a graduate certificate in K-12 technology, corporate training or eLearning. Businesses, schools, government, and other organizations need to provide job training. Knowing the effective design of instruction is a high-demand skill in today's workforce.

Department: Department of Education, Health & Behavior Studies  |  Duration: 1 year (12 credit hours)  |  Study mode: full-time; online  |  Intake: Fall (Aug. 1), Spring (Dec. 1), Summer (May 1)  |  Location: Grand Forks, ND, United States

What you will study

The requirements on this page are pulled from UND’s academic catalog and may not reflect future terms. Updates are published annually in April. A graduate certificate is a short series of graduate-level college courses that offer specialized training in a specific industry. Required courses include IDT 520 Instructional Systems Analysis and Design; IDT 525 Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Instructional Materials; IDT 510 Technology-Based Instruction: Applications and Methods; IDT 540 Digital Media and the Internet in Schools; IDT 545 Instructional Simulations and Games; IDT 560 Instructional Design Consulting.

Career pathways

Training is a part of virtually every organization, but some are large enough to have their own human resources department or training program. In these organizations, instructional designers generally are part of a design and development team, working with graphic artists, programmers and subject-matter experts.

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