Courses
See the proposed two-year course schedule for planning when to enroll for the following courses.
IP&T 370, Technology Use in Early Childhood Classrooms
Students will develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to effectively integrate technology into real-world early childhood classrooms in developmentally appropriate ways. Offered for undergraduates.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 371, Integrating K–12 Educational Technology 1 (1 Credit)
Using instructional design, visual design, and differentiated staffing principles along with multimedia authoring systems, telecommunication, and other computer-based tools in the development of educational applications for secondary education. Offered for undergraduates.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 372, Integrating K–12 Educational Technology 2 (1 Credit)
Using instructional design, visual design, and differentiated staffing principles, along with multimedia authoring systems, telecommunication, and other computer-based tools in the development of educational applications for early childhood education. Offered for undergraduate Elementary Education majors.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 373, Teaching in K–12 Online and Blended Learning Contexts (1 Credit)
Using instructional design, visual design, and differentiated staffing principles, along with multimedia authoring systems, telecommunication, and other computer-based tools in the development of educational applications for elementary education. Offered for undergraduate Secondary Education majors.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 420, Design Psychology
This course will introduce students to fundamental principles of psychological research and how they influence design. In this course, students will learn how people think, basic human psychology, and factors to consider in designing for others. By the end of this course, students should be able to identify relevant factors that affect design as well as how those factors come into play in different design situations. Offered for undergraduates.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 461, Design Evaluation
Introduction to the field of evaluation and how it is used in instructional design and in the evaluation of educational products. Methods for conceptualizing and implementing evaluations, and practical guidelines for planning and completing an evaluation project. Offered for undergraduates.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 464, Instructional Design for Business
Overview to the field of instructional design as a discipline, including what careers are available in the discipline. Also, how instructional design is used to create educational products, especially eLearning. Offered for undergraduates.
IP&T 498R, Product Design for Education
Project-based course in the development of educational products. Students work in teams, using skills from their individual majors, to help design, develop, and deliver a product to a client in the community. Offered for undergraduates.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 510, Scholarly Writing and Argumentation (3 Credits)
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 515R, Special Topics in Instructional Psychology & Technology (Variable Credit)
NOTE: IP&T 515R is a special topics course. Topics vary, so please check the current course schedule for offerings.
IP&T 520, Foundations of Instructional Technology (3 Credits)
Introduction to instructional psychology and technology theory and practice, including psychological foundations of human performance technology and learning sciences, current research issues, professional organization of the field, and ethical issues.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 531, Introduction to Open Education (3 Credits)
Students will learn foundational concepts related to open education including the origins of intellectual property law and open licensing, and the impact of openness on teaching, learning, and scholarly publishing.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 538, Teaching in Online and Blended Learning Environments (3 Credits)
Students will explore foundational concepts related to online/blended learning and will learn to plan, develop, facilitate, and evaluate teaching and learning in these environments.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 560, Instructional Product Development (3 Credits)
Designing, programming, and debugging educational applications using a high-level computer language.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 564, Instructional Design (3 Credits)
Identifying instructional problems; specifying objectives, instructional strategies, and media; analyzing learning outcomes; developing instructional materials and assessment instruments; and validating instructional systems.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 599R, Academic Internship (1–6 Credits)
Professional work experience in area of specialization under the direction of a faculty member.
Prerequisites: Departmental consent
IP&T 620, Principles of Learning (3 Credits)
Improving classroom learning through understanding underlying psychological principles and theories.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 629, Introduction to Research (3 Credits)
Integration of empirical research and statistical analysis in evaluation. Emphasis on designing, conducting, analyzing, reporting, and critically evaluating research studies.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 631, Research in Open Education (3 Credits)
In-depth literature review and research project related to issues in open education, including the use of open educational resources.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 638, Research in Blended and Online Learning Environments (3 Credits)
Introduction to major research problems, questions, and theories that have been investigated in blended and online learning. Exploration of current inquiry questions and methods used to conduct research in blended and online learning environments.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 651, Statistics 1: Foundations (3 Credits)
Use of analysis of variance and multiple regression/correlation in analyzing and interpreting results of educational research and evaluation.
Prerequisites: IP&T 629 Introduction to Research
IP&T 652, Assessing Learning Outcomes (3 Credits)
Selecting and constructing instruments and procedures for assessing affective, behavioral, and cognitive outcomes of education.
Prerequisites: IP&T 629 Introduction to Research
IP&T 653, Qualitative Research 1 (Intro to Qualitative Research) (3 Credits)
Introduction to qualitative inquiry in education, with emphasis on assumptions made, methods used, and standards applied for judging qualitative studies.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 654, Computers in Educational Measurement (3 Credits)
Types of computerized measurement and assessment methods and item forms, including their development, delivery, and statistical theory.
Prerequisites: IP&T 652 Assessing Learning Outcomes or instructor's consent
IP&T 655, Digital Interface Design (3 Credits)
Applying instructional and visual design principles to produce instructional print materials, using computer-based tools.
Prerequisites: IP&T 564 Instructional Design
IP&T 657R, Measurement Project (3 Credits)
Designing, conducting, and reporting a comprehensive measurement project.
Prerequisites: IP&T 651 Statistics in Education and IP&T 652 Assessing Learning Outcomes
IP&T 661, Introduction to Evaluation in Education (3 Credits)
Introduction to the nature, purposes, and functions of educational evaluation in making judgments about teachers, instructional materials, academic programs, curricula, and school systems.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 664, Advanced Instructional Design (3 Credits)
Advanced laboratory in instructional system design, production, formative evaluation, packaging, and implementation. Systematic critical analysis of all phases of development.
Prerequisites: IP&T 564 Instructional Design
IP&T 665, Instructional Visual/Video Production (3 Credits)
Designing, producing, and integrating audio, visual, and video instructional materials. Applying digital and other technologies in audio recording and mixing and in photographic and video production.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 667R, Evaluation Project (3 Credits)
Designing, conducting, and reporting a comprehensive project in evaluation.
Prerequisites: IP&T 661 Introduction to Evaluation in Education
IP&T 674R, Quasi-Experimental Research (3 Credits)
Explication of the logic of counterfactual reasoning to address causal questions, use of propensity score matching procedures for creating comparison groups, improved procedures for implementing and analyzing the results of regression discontinuity designs, use of instrumental variables, and related procedures for detecting and estimating selection bias.
Prerequisites: IP&T 651 Stats 1 or instructor's consent
IP&T 677R, Research Project (3 Credits)
Designing, conducting, and reporting a comprehensive project in research topics.
Prerequisites: IP&T 692R Stats 1
Taught by: Staff | Syllabus
IP&T 682, Project & Instructional Resource Management (3 Credits)
Managing research, development, and evaluation projects in public schools, corporate, and higher education settings: planning, budgeting, supervising, managing personnel, and scheduling.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 687R, Development Project (3 Credits)
Designing, conducting, and reporting a comprehensive project in development.
Prerequisites: IP&T 564 Instructional Design
IP&T 690R, Seminar (0.5 Credits)
Weekly seminar topics.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 692R, Advanced Topics (1–3 Credits)
All 692R courses are reserved for experimental courses to teach new ideas and topics. Sometimes these are taught only once, and other times the popularity of the course is such that it becomes a regular offering (e.g., IP&T 520). In the past, we have offered topics such as applied creativity, distance education, Rasch modeling, design-based research, educational data mining, learning analytics, authoring tools, history of creativity, and others. Please consult the course schedule to find out what topics will be covered in upcoming 692R courses.
Prerequisites: Instructor's consent
IP&T 693R, Directed Individual Study (1–3 Credits)
As arranged.
Prerequisites: Instructor's consent
Taught by: Determined by topic
IP&T 698R, Master's Project (1–6 Credits)
Formal report and defense of the development project.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 699R, Master's Thesis (1–6 Credits)
Formal report and defense of thesis.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 730, Hierarchical Linear Modeling (3 Credits)
Assumptions, theories, practices, and problems associated with educational evaluation.
Prerequisites: IP&T 745 Statistics 2: Multiple Regression
IP&T 745, Statistics 2: Multiple Regression (3 Credits)
Prerequisites: IPT 629 Statistics in Education 1
IP&T 747, Structural Equation Modeling (3 Credits)
Prerequisites: IP&T 651 Statistics in Education
IP&T 750, Literature Review & Synthesis (3 Credits)
Survey of major research problems, questions, and theories that have been investigated in instructional psychology and technology. Preparing critical, integrative syntheses of completed research and conceptualizing problems for further inquiry. Research prospectus required.
Prerequisites: IP&T 629 Introduction to Research
IP&T 752, Measurement Theory (3 Credits)
Classical and modern models for measuring human attributes. Issues relating to reliability, validity, item selection, scoring, standard setting, and test equating. Use of item response theory and generalizability theory.
Prerequisites: IP&T 652 Assessing Learning Outcomes
IP&T 753, Qualitative Research 2 (Advanced) (3 Credits)
Emerging issues, theories, practices, and problems associated with qualitative inquiry in education.
Prerequisites: IP&T 653 Qualitative Inquiry in Education
IP&T 754, Item Response Theory (3 Credits)
Using modern techniques to analyze people's responses to tests, questionnaires, and any kind of performance assessments that involve ratings as a basis for solving pervasive problems in educational and psychological measurement. Applications of IRT include computer-adaptive testing, cognitive-diagnostic testing, test-score equating, and test-item bias detecting, as well as performing item and scale analyses that are not sample dependent.
Prerequisites: None
IP&T 760R, Advanced E-Learning Development (3 Credits)
Current issues, research, and applications of computer technology in education, along with advanced programming.
Prerequisites: IP&T 560 E-learning Product Development
IP&T 761, Advanced Evaluation in Education (3 Credits)
Assumptions, theories, practices, and problems associated with educational evaluation.
Prerequisites: IP&T 661 Introduction to Evaluation in Education or instructor's consent
IP&T 790R, Advanced Seminar (1–3 Credits)
Check current class schedule for seminar topics.
Prerequisites: Determined by topic
IP&T 799R, Doctoral Dissertation (1–9 Credits)
Formal report and defense of a substantive research topic designed to make an original contribution to current knowledge in the field.
Prerequisites: Completion of skill and project requirements