The Instructional Design and Technology degree is:
- Project-oriented. Build your portfolio to show future employers as you go
- Completely online and designed for the working professional
- Loaded with marketable skills to put your career into overdrive
- Full of creative fun with movie-making, animation, computer graphics, and Web design
- Flexible and individualized for those with limited computer skills, as well as the mid-career IT professional
- Diverse. Students have come from dozens of states and several countries
Contact the Department of Education at (806) 651-2909 for more information.
Learn about courses to help you:
Ride the job market with high-level business computing skills
No matter what career you have or seek, every employer hopes for high-level skills with business productivity software. They want you to be able to support business decisions with data stored in a database, such as Microsoft Access, and analyzed at a sophisticated level using a spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel. They want you to present that data in attention-grabbing interactive presentations using tools like Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Captivate, InDesign, Animate, and Premiere.
You will never be bored in even our Microsoft Office classes, because there is a lot more to products like Microsoft Word than just printing a letter to Grandma! Many students have TAUGHT Microsoft Office at other schools, but they could not believe how much more they learned to do in our courses. Learn all this in EDT 6305: Computer Productivity Tools and floor the gas pedal with EDT 6384: Advanced Business Productivity Applications.
Navigate tight design corners with dynamite design skills
The U.S. Government Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the field of Web Design/Graphic Design will grow by tens of thousands of jobs in the coming years. The best Web drivers can earn over $100,000 a year! To suit up for this racetrack, you will need website construction skills like Adobe Dreamweaver and graphic design skills like Adobe Illustrator and Animate. Learn all these starting with EDT 6380: Webmastering (Web Design). Then put the pedal to the metal with custom Web coding in EDT 6382: Advanced Web Design. Focus on individualized projects and special topics in Animation, Photoshop photo editing, InDesign advanced publishing, Illustrator computer art (no drawing skill required), and Captivate interactive learning presentations in EDT 6385/6392.
Film the race highlights for the 10 o'clock news
Video recording and production is both a fascinating hobby and a useful job skill. It involves shooting, lighting, sound control, editing, titling, and transferring the finished product to DVD. In EDT 6355: Movie Making and Editing with Adobe Premiere, we learn to create instructional videos similar to those produced by the nation’s top working professionals.
Cruise Victory Lane as a corporate training professional or school technology specialist
Corporate trainers and school technologists alike need to know how to construct learning materials that keep students on the edge of their seats. This involves learning the latest tips and tricks of the training trade based on the long experience of seasoned professionals.