eLearning Specialist
CU-Bloomsburg eLearning Specialist Certificate is offered completely online and is designed for professionals charged with integrating interactive online technologies into both educational and professional training environments.
- Degrees & Offerings
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- Certificate
- Location
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- Online
- Department
- College
- Program Contact
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MSIDT Program Coordinator, Associate Professor
Program Overview
- Offered 100% online.
- The eLearning Specialist certificate is ideal for individuals such as training specialists, instructional technologists, managers of training, curriculum developers, staff development personnel, and media specialists.
- Graduate status is not required for this certificate. However, an individual with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college may apply for admission and receive graduate credit for their eLearning Developer Certificate coursework.
- You don't need to be a computer programmer or computer expert to be an instructional technologist since many of the tools are as easy to use as Microsoft Word or Google products.
Courses and Curriculum
The eLearning Specialist Certificate requires 12 credit hours of coursework. In addition, two elective courses are also available for individuals who seek additional skills. The graduate level courses can be applied toward a master’s degree from the Department of Instructional Technology.
Required Courses
- INSTTECH572 Introduction to Authoring
- INSTTECH584 Online Course Design
Elective Courses (Choose Two)
- INSTTECH530 Foundations of Visual Design for Learning
- INSTTECH548 Learning Analytics
- INSTTECH550 Instructional Design
- INSTTECH560 Multimedia Productions
- INSTTECH570 Introduction to Website Development
- INSTTECH577 Advanced Authoring
- INSTTECH578 Advanced Authoring for Game Development
- INSTTECH583 Social Media for eLearning
- INSTTECH585 eLearning Concepts and Techniques
- INSTTECH588 Learning Management Systems
The online courses incorporate a range of technologies to promote interactive communication and learning. Faculty and students interact via a combination of asynchronous and synchronous technologies including online meetings and real-time discussions.
- Theory, Research, and Practice: Apply principles of theory, research, and best practices to design training solutions
- Presentation Skills: Create and deliver effective presentations using a combination of text and mixed multimedia
- Training Design Skills: Determine the best methods to deliver training and design effective training for specific needs
- Technology Development Skills: Develop technology solutions using a variety of authoring and media software
- Team Work Skills: Use communication and project management skills to create training solutions effectively as a team
ONWARD AND UPWARD
Program Faculty
Jessica Briskin
- MSIDT Program Coordinator, Associate Professor
- Bloomsburg
Karl M. Kapp
- Professor
- Bloomsburg
Helmut Doll
- Professor
- Bloomsburg
R. Lynn Hummel
- Professor of Instructional Design and Technology
- Bloomsburg
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