Advanced Practicum in Learning Design

LDT640 

The LDT640 course of the M.S. in the Instructional Design and Technology program at the University of Maryland Global Campus run in the spring of 2023. This practicum course covered the following:

• Examine and evaluate leadership and change models to advance learning design projects.

• Identify and research legal issues associated with online teaching and learning. 

• Examine leadership and project management techniques associated with learning design projects, evaluate learning management systems, identify a project, and develop a learning design seminar proposal.

Core interdisciplinary competencies are communications, critical thinking, analysis, leadership, collaboration, and project management. Discipline-specific competencies included highly targeted knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes. The students were engaged in project-based learning by being immersed in realistic work scenarios and producing deliverables like learning designers would every day. These competencies are demonstrated in the deliverables listed on the following pages.