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Distance Education: What's New for TX Teachers!: Professional Development Certificates


Teachers! 
Add a high demand skill set to your resume!

 

Online Distance Educator Certificate

This certificate enables students to prepare effective, interactive online educational products including web-based instructional activities. Complete graduate courses in which you will learn to:

  • Systematically design instruction

  • Write measurable objectives

  • Identify a strategy for teaching objectives

  • Create and design interactive instructional strategies for distance learners

  • Create instructional web materials in HTML

  • Select an appropriate, feasible and cost effective distance delivery system

UHCL Online Distance Educator Professional Development Certificate (15 hrs),
Required Course Work:

Prerequisite (3 hrs, as advised)

  • INST 5035 Creating Digital Resources

Required Courses (15 hrs):

  • INST 5535 Internet Fundamentals or EDUC5130 Cognition and Instruction
  • INST 5333 Systematic Design of Technology Based Instruction
  • INST 5635 Web Design and Development
  • INST 5735 Advanced Web Design
  • INST 6437 Interactive Distance Learning

Note to candidates: This certificate is offered through UHCL - it is NOT a state certificate.


Performance Technology Certificate

Complete your Performance Technology Certificate with just 12 hours of courses - ALL of which can be applied to an Instructional Technology Master’s degree! This certificate will enable you to:

  • Analyze human work performance problems and outcomes

  • Identify instructional and non-instructional solutions for improving human work performance

  • Select performance solutions from HR tools such as training, electronic performance support systems, job aids, knowledge management, change management, job restructuring, recruitment and selection policies, and more.

  • Create powerful instructional strategies based upon effective contemporary learning theories

  • Select the most effective instructional strategies for a given objectives

  • Identify the most appropriate and feasible assessment measure for a given learning objective

  • Align any learning goals and objectives to the best assessment measures

  • Meet the instructional needs of diverse learners through instructional support.


UHCL Performance Technology Certificate (12 hours),
Required Course Work:

3 Required courses (9hours):

  • EDUC 5130 Cognition & Instruction
  • INST 5333 Systematic Design
  • INST 5233 Performance Technology

Choose ONE of the following TWO courses (3 Hours):

  • INST 5433 IT Project Mgt./Grant Writing*

    OR

  • INST 5131 Trends and Issues**

*INST 5433 provides students to develop project management and grant-writing skills.
**INST 5131 enables learners to learn more about the scope of the field of Instructional Technology

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