LEARNING OUTCOMES

Today’s learning designers are facing unique and rapidly evolving challenges. They must create environments that combine in-person, online, and mobile learning while taking advantage of our media-rich, digital, networked world. For your educational design career to grow and thrive, you need to stay on top of not only today’s trends but also tomorrow’s advances.

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Northeastern’s MPS in Learning Experience Design and Technology program provides an experience-based curriculum designed for the challenges facing today’s learning designers, educators, trainers, and instructional technologists in higher education, pre-K-12, government, corporate, and nonprofit organizations. You’ll strengthen your design and instructional thinking to create educational experiences that meet today’s demands and expectations.

These professionals will:

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1. Create an ePortfolio that highlights your accomplishments and design skills.

2. Gain real-world experience before you graduate through experiential learning opportunities, including design studio electives and professional internships.

3. Learn from industry professionals who provide practical and meaningful experiences.

4. Connect with a thriving network of students, alumni, and industry experts through student orientation, residencies, panel discussions, and more.

5. Receive flexible, personalized, and agile learning opportunities needed to succeed in today’s educational environment.

6. Participate in Skill Building Labs (LXD SBLs) if you choose EDU 6558 as part of your electives – shorter intensive courses that provide students with opportunities to focus deeply on a key skill or knowledge base. They are experiential in nature - including specific design challenges. Examples include: Design Blueprinting, Universal Design Designing with Rise/Storyline, Designing for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Backward Design, and Gamification.

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Program Outcomes: 

• Apply learning design models, theories, practices, and technologies, based on the analysis of context, content, and learner needs, to develop engaging learning environments.

• Demonstrate constructive working relationships and collaborations in a range of professional contexts while responding to the nuances of organizational culture, diversity of learners, project demands, and allocated resources.

• Redesign learning experiences to create dynamic technology-enhanced and engaging environments by seeking out the learning design potential of new technologies.

• Demonstrate the ability to effectively present ideas in multiple mediums and to diverse audiences.

• Create learning designs that promote social justice, inclusion, and the building of intercultural and global networks, while demonstrating the capacity to perceive multiple perspectives.

• Respond innovatively to the learning design opportunities and challenges in diverse contexts of industry sectors and modalities, while creatively drawing upon the latest research in learning design.

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