Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design

Drexel's accredited online Instructional Design graduate certificate program is designed to prepare professionals to effectively and efficiently design learning environments using a variety of media. This includes those preparing to be instructional designers, teachers, and other learning design professionals for PK-12 education, adult education, and workplace training.

You'll learn about the five phases of systematic instructional design: analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation, along with newer process models and rapid prototyping to meet the demands of just-in-time learning and reduced budgets. The certificate specifically addresses the needs of the millennial learner and collaborative, networked communities. You're encouraged to integrate your professional experiences and engage co-learners from other environments in their explorations.

You will learn to:

• Create effective learning artifacts using a variety of media and methods including social media via mobile devices
• Design an effective instructional development plan that meets the needs of various stakeholders
• Collaborate with and lead a team of talented contributors to create an instructional product resulting in an effective and efficient outcome
• Design and integrate virtual community processes into learning environments
• Design effective learning experiences for online and blended students using tools and methods specific to these environments
• Apply knowledge from the quickly evolving field of learning science to the design process
• Create effective technology-enhanced instruction that includes analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation
• Recognize and adapt learning environments, tools, methods, and strategies to engage and optimize learning for disabled populations
• Negotiate an effective instructional design and development initiative that meets the needs of a real client
• Plan, develop, evaluate, and manage the rapid design/development of effective instructional materials

Program Features

• A flexible, completely online program that fits easily into your busy work and personal schedule
• Drexel is ranked as one of "America’s Best Graduate Schools" preparing today’s educators by U.S.News & World Report, and among the "Top-25 STEM Schools of 2018" by Forbes
• A highly interactive online learning method allows extensive interaction with faculty and other classmates

Archived Webinars

• Creating A Positive Collaborative Relationship between the Subject Matter Expert and the Instructional Design Team
• Learning Technologies and Creativity & Innovation Programs
• Pivotal Pedagogy: Higher Education Teaching and Instructional Design in the New Normal

State restrictions may apply to some programs.