2026-2027 Course Catalog

Source: https://catalog.illinois.edu/graduate/education/concentration/learning-design-leadership/ Parent: https://catalog.illinois.edu/graduate/

for the Graduate Concentration in Learning Design & Leadership

Learn to create engaging learning environments by integrating new media technologies. LDL encourages students to be active designers of their own knowledge. Students use new digital media to enhance the ways in which they learn and understand, thus improving the learning process. Address the challenges of differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. Instructional technologies such as computer-based instruction, computer-based testing, distance learning, interactive video, and intelligent instructional technologies are covered.

This concentration is available for:

• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, CAS (on campus)
• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, EdM (on campus & online)
• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, EdD (on campus & online)
• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, MA (on campus)
• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, PhD (on campus)

for the Graduate Concentration in Learning Design & Leadership

The graduate credit needed for this concentration fulfills general coursework requirements for:

• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, CAS (on campus)
• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, EdM (on campus & online)
• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, EdD (on campus & online)
• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, MA (on campus)
• Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, PhD (on campus)

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | Required course: | | 4 | | EPOL 481 | New Learning | | | Select eight hours from the following courses: | | 8 | | EPOL 479 | Machine Learning and Human Learning | | | EPOL 486 | New Media & Learner Differences | | | EPOL 534 | Assessment for Learning | | | EPOL 580 | Ubiquitous Learning | | | EPOL 581 | Knowledge, Learning and Pedagogy | | | EPOL 582 | New Media and Literacies | | | EPOL 583 | eLearning Ecologies | | | ERAM 557 | Meaning Patterns: Semiotics and the Interpretation of Meanings in Education and the Social Sciences | | | EPSY 408 | | | | EPSY 559 | | | | EPSY 560 | | | | Total Hours | | 12 |

for the Graduate Concentration in Learning Design & Leadership

Upon successful completion of a Graduate Concentration in Learning Design & Leadership ​students will:

1. Students will be able to create engaging learning environments by integrating new media technologies.
2. Be active designers of their own knowledge.
3. Use new digital media to enhance the ways in which they learn and understand, thus improving the learning process.
4. Address the challenges of differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners.

for the Graduate Concentration in Learning Design & Leadership

Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership

Head of the Department: Lorenzo Baber\ Director of Graduate Studies: Linda Herrera\ Graduate Admissions Information: Linda Stimson (on campus) and Jena Pfoff (online/off-campus)\ Education Policy, Organization & Leadership website\ Education Policy, Organization & Leadership Faculty\ 142 Education Building, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820\ (217) 244-3542\ Graduate Student Services Office email: gradservices@education.illinois.edu

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