Learning Design Leadership

Program Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Learning Design Leadership is a fully online, 3-course graduate certificate program offered by our Master of Arts in Learning Experience Design (MALXD) program. Through this graduate certificate, students will become leaders in learning experience design from ideation to evaluation. With knowledge of industry standards and projected future trends, students will employ a diverse set of pedagogies, technologies, and frameworks to lead teams in creating powerful learning solutions. This graduate certificate can be earned as a stand-alone certificate or as a part of the MALXD degree.

This program is designed for individuals who want to supplement their academic and/or professional knowledge in key areas related to learning design. It has been intentionally designed with full-time working professionals in mind and courses are context-rich so that learners have supported experience applying theory to their professional practice.

Program Outcomes

Graduates will be able to:

• Apply a variety of leadership, organizational management, coaching, and mentorship models as a learning design leader.
• Evaluate various leadership, organizational management, coaching, and mentorship in your professional context.
• Apply and lead project management and workflow practices for collaborative team projects.
• Employ effective communication practices to lead and support teams with diverse perspectives, through proactive and responsive leadership practices.
• Evaluate design frameworks for your client and organizational needs through a critical lens.
• Create plans from ideation, to implementation, to evaluation for a design project.
• Identify industry standards and needs in order to guide professional work.
• Identify industry standards and needs in order to anticipate emerging and future trends.
• Apply theories and frameworks of instructional and learning experience design to your professional context(s).
• Analyze technologies for usability, accessibility, engagement, and ethical and social challenges and implications.
• Use a diverse range of meaningful and appropriate pedagogical strategies in your designs.
• Create powerful learning solutions for and with learners, instructors, and clients.
• Identify opportunities for individual growth and leadership development for instructional design through a self-evaluation process.
• Create and implement an actionable plan to support professional development goals.
• Evaluate resources for credibility and applicability to growth goals.
• Design a workflow and evaluation system to self-monitor progress in obtaining goals.

Career Outlook

Graduate Certificate in Learning Design Leadership alumni will meet the growing industry demand in a wide range of professional settings. This certificate is ideal for individuals who are interested in career advancement and leadership roles in learning design. Relevant fields include:

• Instructional design
• Educational and e-learning content development
• Professional and continuing education
• Corporate training development
• IT and computer training
• Learning services
• Project management