Instructional Design and Technology: Educational Technology (MA)

Elevate Learning and Performance Through Innovative Instruction

The MA in Instructional Design and Technology at UCF prepares you to analyze, design and deliver high-quality conventional, online and blended training, education and professional development. The degree program offers three tracks, each one preparing you to meet the needs of various industries and educational settings. You also have an opportunity to enroll in one of the program™s four graduate certificates without taking additional credit hours. This option increases your marketability by expanding your specialized knowledge in the field. And with a fully online instructional design and technology program available, you can take advantage of the flexibility and convenience of learning when and where you want.

Throughout the program, explore the science and art of designing innovative, effective, and engaging training and educational programs in business and industry, K-12 and higher education. You link research to design, discover how people learn, and implement strategies to improve education, training and job performance. But it™s more than just using computers and digital media effectively. Here, you learn first hand about how to assess learning needs, design and implement innovative learning tools and experiences to improve instruction, and evaluate the impact of those tools on learning.

e-Learning Track
The e-Learning Track is designed for both educators (who want to learn how to design and deliver totally online and hybrid courses) and instructional designers (who are now being hired by many universities and colleges across the country to help faculty design and deliver totally online and hybrid courses). You focus on teaching the design, delivery and evaluation of high-quality e-learning materials for in-service, preservice teachers and online trainers for both totally online and blended (hybrid) learning environments.

Educational Technology Track
The Educational Technology track is designed for classroom teachers who want to increase their technical skills and become highly skilled at successfully integrating technology into the curriculum as well as develop leadership skills necessary to become site-based technology coordinators in K-12 schools, colleges and universities. After completing this track, you have the knowledge to seek a new career path in education as a computer teacher, instructor and instructional designer.

Instructional Systems Track
The Instructional Systems track is designed for prospective and practicing instructional designers, training specialists and training directors/managers in business, industry, government or other settings where training, professional development and lifelong learning takes place. You develop an expertise in how and why people learn, how to stimulate and facilitate learning, and in the use of alternative instructional delivery systems.

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited U.S. institution recognized by UCF or its equivalent from a foreign institution AND a GPA of 3.0 or more (on a 4.0 maximum) in all work attempted while registered as an undergraduate student OR while registered as an upper-division undergraduate student (normally based on the last sixty attempted semester hours); OR, a graduate degree or professional degree or equivalent from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or its equivalent from a foreign institution in a field related to the discipline of the program to which the student is applying.
• Students applying to doctoral programs should refer to the graduate catalog requirements for their program.
• Students applying to doctoral programs must also submit three letters of recommendation, a resume or curriculum vitae, and a written essay.
• International students must demonstrate their proficiency in the English language. International students, except those who are from countries where English is the only official language, those who have earned a degree from a regionally accredited U.S. college or university, or those who have earned a degree from a country where English is the only official language or from a university at which English is the only official language of instruction, are required to submit a score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or IELTS before they can be admitted to the university. A computer-based TOEFL score of 220 or 80 on the internet-based TOEFL (or equivalent score on the paper-based test) or 6.5 on the IELTS is required unless otherwise specified by the program.
• International students applying to master’s or doctoral programs that do not require a GRE (or GMAT), except those that have earned or will earn a Masters or Doctoral degree from an accredited U.S. institution recognized by UCF, must submit a course-by-course evaluation of their official transcripts from a credential evaluation service recommended by UCF. This course-by-course evaluation must show a GPA that is equivalent to a 3.0 from an earned degree that is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree.
• UCF now accepts scanned copies of official transcripts as part of your application materials. You will have the ability to upload these materials during the application process. After you have been offered admission to a graduate program and prior to the beginning of the semester term, you will be required to submit your official transcripts. When obtaining official transcripts, be sure to request that the transcripts show the degrees you have earned.

• those who are from countries where English is the only official language;
• those who have earned a degree from a regionally accredited U.S. college or university;
• those who have earned a degree from a country where English is the only official language;
• those who have earned a degree from a university at which English is the only official language of instruction; or
• those who have successfully completed UCF English Language Institute Level 8 or higher with a grade of “B” or better at UCF Global.