Courses
The one year credit certificate curriculum includes these six online courses:
EPC 606: Seminar in Adult Development (3)
This course covers human development and learning in adult life. It is designed to prepare professionals to work with adults in a wide variety of training or instructional settings, and includes topics in life-span development, job satisfaction and issues related to career transitions.
EPC 613: Assessment and Evaluation of Learning (3)
This course presents targeted assessment methods that can be used for evaluating outcomes in courses, programs, seminars, conference sessions, and other adult learning scenarios. Topics include working models of assessment theory, specific application in adult learning and training, using assessment as a learning experience and special techniques for evaluating technology-mediated education and distance learning programs.
EPC 615: Instructional Design (3)
In the culminating experience, you will propose and create an actual instructional/training product for adult learners that will bring together the knowledge and skills you have acquired, and apply them to a practical application of your choice. Topics include learning objectives and planning, models of course design, proposals, layout principles, mockups and presentation techniques. This course will prepare you for the development of projects such as workshops, handbooks, interactive educational software and instructional web sites.
PSY 656D: Human Factors and Adult Learning Systems (3)
This course examines how to design effective, extraordinarily usable systems for educating adult learners. The seminar applies a unique systems approach that integrates learning objectives, user characteristics, technology attributes and environmental context to develop rich, adult-centered instructional systems. It will explore user interface designs that support learning using both common and newly-developed technologies. Practical applications will be emphasized in projects that apply this systems approach--from initial needs assessment through final evaluation of learning performance.
EPC 695D: Issues in Professional Development (3)
In this course you will learn to use effective models to structure training programs, online courses, in-depth seminars and other adult learning systems. Topics include course and training design, course management, applied learning theory, and current best practices in the education and training of adults.
EPC 695D: Adult Learning and Instruction (3)
In this course you will apply current theory and research in educational psychology for successful adult instruction, professional development, and corporate training. Topics include cognitive development, employee motivation, learning assessment, learning styles and cultural diversity.
