E-Learning Design and Development

What is E-Learning Design and Development?

E-Learning is the use of digital technology to facilitate and enhance learning and training. This use of technology has become so important in today's world that high schools, colleges, government organizations, nonprofit institutions and businesses both large and small use e-learning to educate, train, inform and coach.

Many people think of e-learning as traditional academic courses delivered over the internet. While this is certainly true, e-learning encompasses much more. Anyone who has taken driver's training online, used computer-based tech support for a PC, watched educational videos on television, listened to a podcast, or read a professional blog, has reaped the benefits of an e-learning product. Nearly all industries today use e-learning to further professional goals.

E-Learning Design and Development is an emerging and valuable career track for anyone looking to expand a professional portfolio. A certificate in E-Learning Design and Development gives you the opportunity to take your professional experience and unique industry knowledge and apply it in a new direction, while gaining proficiency with cutting edge technology.

What You Will Learn

Students earning the online E-Learning Design and Development certificate will be able to discuss and apply:

• Principles of instructional design to e-learning, including learning theory, evaluation techniques, asynchronous learning principles and hybrid instruction styles
• Effective writing and script treatment strategies, storyboarding and preproduction planning for multimedia
• Principles and tools for audio-visual media production as they apply to e-learning development
• Distribution, deployment and publication methods
• Administration and production using open source content learning management systems
• Principles of usability testing, including e-learning interventions, formative evaluation, data analysis and report writing
• Authoring and content production techniques, using industry standards

Intended Audience

The program is designed for learning professionals in corporate training, human resources, curriculum development, communications and enterprise level strategic implementation. Our students come from businesses, local governments, nonprofits and traditional academic institutions, who all need to create and deploy e-learning. This program will most benefit entry-level and intermediate-level designers, educators and managers who lack formal training in e-learning and instructional design.