Please note: The DLL course goals and program map must be read from the bottom starting from EDLD 5302, & 5303 then moving onto 5305 and so on. The large red text points to the main plan, strategy, or publication that you will have created upon completion of the course.
| CSLE+COVA Capstone – EDLD 5320 Learners will synthesize their knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values gained through their digital learning and leadership experiences and present a comprehensive plan on how they developed into digital learners and leaders that can identify and promote innovation, create significant digital learning environments, and lead organizational change. |
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| Online Course – EDLD 5318 Learners will apply constructivist learning theories and instructional design principles in the development and delivery of an online course utilizing significant learning environments through selected course management tools. |
PD Planning – EDLD 5388 Learners will effectively apply an innovative teaching practice by collaborating with colleagues to evaluate their impact on learners and design and model authentic professional learning (PL) activities that are active, have a significant duration, and are specific to their discipline. |
| Digital Citizen – EDLD 5316 Learners will be able to navigate the emerging educational and legal challenges of a knowledge society where most K-12 students are deeply immersed in online communication, having grown up as “digital natives.”
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EdTech Publication – EDLD 5317 Learners will examine a variety of digital environments and other digital resources to effectively communicate with others the practical implementation and the pedagogical value for educational use. |
| EdTech Review – EDLD 5314 Learners will analyze and assess global educational technology innovation projects to determine what worked and what could be done better and apply those lessons learned to local innovation projects. |
Measurement Strategy – EDLD 5315 Learners will be able to assess the instructional impact the implementation of their innovation plans have on creating effective digital learning environments. |
| Organizational Change – EDLD 5304 Learners will be equipped with tools to be a self-differentiated leader who can address the inevitable resistance to change that will occur when launching innovative digital learning initiatives. |
Learning Environments – EDLD 5313 Learners will identify and incorporate constructivist theories to create and implement significant digital learning environments. |
| Authentic Innovation Plan – EDLD 5305 Learners will identify technology innovations and embrace them as opportunities rather than challenges and proactively use those changes as catalysts to enhance their institution or district’s learning environments. |
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| Foundation- EDLD 5302 Learners will take ownership and agency over the learning process and incorporate learner choice and voice in designing authentic projects that use technology innovations as a catalyst for change in their organizational setting. |
ePortfolio – EDLD 5303 Learners will prepare and submit an ePortfolio that demonstrates their mastery of the learning outcomes for previously completed professional development work. |
What You Get from the DLL
Because we give our learners choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities when you complete the DLL program you will not only have a M.Ed in Digital Learning and leading you will have a(an):
- Innovation plan & implementation strategy
- Organizational change strategy
- Learning environment
- Instructional design/backward design experience
- Measurement strategy
- Digital literacy strategy
- Online/blended course
- Paper/Article/Conference presentation
- Professional development/learning strategy
- ePortfolio
- Personal learning networks (PLNs)
- M.Ed. degree
We have created a significant learning environment in the DLL program in which we give the learner choice, ownership and voice through authentic learning opportunities. DLL learners will:
- Adopt a self-directed approach to learning and utilizing technologies in digital learning environments.
- Create an ePortfolio to organize, communicate and promote digital learning and leading.
- Embrace technological innovations as an opportunity rather than challenges.
- Proactively use technological innovation as catalysts to enhance learning environments.
- Develop the leadership qualities necessary to foster learning innovation.
- Develop appropriate strategies to lead organizational change.
- Manage resistance to change and conflict that occurs when launching innovative digital learning initiatives in educational environments.
- Engage in and manage crucial conversations
- Create significant learning environments.
- Assess, implement, and promote inquiry-based theories and methods to enhance digital learning and leading.
- Distinguish learner-centered instructional methods from teacher-centered methods and identify technologies that support each method
- Construct and align learning objectives, assessment items, and learning activities based on expected outcomes for digital learners.
- Promote the learning and growth mindset within the learning environment and the organization.
- Identify, investigate and assess contemporary issues relevant to digital learning in local and global contexts.
- Measure the effectiveness of digital innovation strategies.
- Design and create effective online or blended learning environments.
- Promote digital citizenship and literacy as it relates to their professional practice.
- Design and model authentic professional development activities that are active, have a significant duration and are specific to their discipline.
- Synthesize the knowledge, skills, and values gained from the program and promote the use of choice, ownership, voice and authentic digital learning within their organizations.
