Master of Education
Update your educational skill set with an affordable degree. Customize your degree.
The Master of Education degree is designed for experienced educators seeking to update their existing skill set to cover the latest in educational theory including contemporary topics such as the integration of technology into education and concepts related to multidisciplinary education.
This program aims to benefit education professionals from a variety of disciplines by allowing students to customize their degree.
Students can specialize in up to four of the following areas:
- Educational Technology
- Curriculum Development and Outcomes Assessment
- Transformational Leadership
- eLearning Pedagogy
Please note that this program is not designed as a teacher certification program, and different states and municipalities often have specific requirements concerning different degree programs. Prospective students should check local and state regulatory requirements for additional information regarding program acceptance.
Admission Requirements
- Application – A completed application.
- Bachelor’s Degree Transcripts – Official transcript demonstrating a conferred bachelor’s degree from an institution that is accredited by a CHEA recognized accrediting body or an international equivalent with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 or greater.
- Military Documentation (Optional) – A copy of the most recent orders; or a copy of DD214 (This can be requested from the National Archives.)
Curriculum Development and Outcomes Assessment
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MED710 - Multidisciplinary Foundations of Education
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MED730 - Curriculum Development, Implementation and Evaluation
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MED700 - Integrating Technologies Across the Curriculum
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MED720 - The Instructional Role of Assessment
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MED740 - Ethics and Educational Law
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MED760 - Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement
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MED761 - Curriculum Mapping and Assessment Data
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MED762 - Schools and Leadership
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MED763 - Academic Portfolios
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MED799 - Graduate Capstone
This course gives students an opportunity to study the dynamic and continuing impact of social, political, and economic forces on American education. Students are introduced to the historical evolution of the public schools to help them identify important social issues that can have an impact on the educational system. Students are required to complete a major research paper.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to study the process of curriculum development from the planning stages to implementation and ultimately evaluation. This course examines the foundations of curriculum, the principles used in designing and applying curriculum, and the current educational, policy and social issues that impact the curriculum field.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides practical skills to meaningfully incorporate technology into the classroom in order to enhance students' understanding of the curriculum. Students create a portfolio; examine Internet resources and evaluate educational software.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to explore how accountability system standards, relevant, engaging curriculum, and valid assessments all fit together to increase student achievement. The process of interdisciplinary, standards-based instruction and assessment are discussed in depth.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Ethics and Educational Law deals with the legal obligations and ethical responsibilities of educators. The course presents an overview of the general topics most commonly experienced by educators including student privacy, gender and disability law, constitutional rulings on prayer and religious expression, discipline, and reporting issues. The rights of teachers, students, and school administrators are discussed within the context of new Supreme Court Rulings.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course examines the significance of social-emotional learning in the classroom. This course is designed to illuminate the connection between emotional intelligence and academic achievement. Students become familiar with the field of social-emotional learning, its rationale, how it supports and enhances academic achievement and other areas of school improvement, and best practices in the field as exemplified through acclaimed programs and approaches.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides students with detailed coaching on using curriculum mapping and assessment analysis to evaluate student achievement. Traditionally, student achievement gaps have been identified using parallel assessment and evaluation of curriculum development and management processes. In this course, students learn how to employ reports generated from curriculum mapping software to create meaningful consensus on how to create a learning environments full of possibility and engagement.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course examines the significance of effective leadership to the successful administration of schools and colleges. Educational leadership now involves confronting complex social issues such as educational equity, inclusion and diversity. Strong leaders are required for implementing changes that bring about social and educational justice. This course presents a broad range of expert analysis from the education field, and stimulates meaningful debate about leadership concepts among students and educational administrators.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides an in-depth examination of the principles of using academic portfolios for authentic assessment. The richness of the portfolio as a valuable assessment tool in schooling has become evident to educators in the United States and throughout the world. Academic portfolios have been introduced, implemented, and modified to measure student achievement. This course addresses the importance of portfolios and e-portfolios in the academic lives of students and teachers. This course provides students with an understanding of the various definitions of print and e-portfolios, and promotes understanding of student evaluation and assessment.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this capstone project allows students to develop an original, comprehensive research project on a topic of professional or personal interest. Students apply the knowledge and skills acquired in their courses to the work environment. Projects are intended to be of applied and pragmatic nature, producing valuable research outcomes and findings either in connection with the student’s organizational situation, or in the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities. This course satisfies the Proctored Exam requirement for this program.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Educational Technology
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MED710 - Multidisciplinary Foundations of Education
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MED730 - Curriculum Development, Implementation and Evaluation
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MED700 - Integrating Technologies Across the Curriculum
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MED720 - The Instructional Role of Assessment
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MED740 - Ethics and Educational Law
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MED750 - Introduction to Online Learning and Internet Research
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MED751 - Instructional Design
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MED752 - Multimedia for Educators
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MED753 - The Wired School: Emerging Technologies
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MED799 - Graduate Capstone
This course gives students an opportunity to study the dynamic and continuing impact of social, political, and economic forces on American education. Students are introduced to the historical evolution of the public schools to help them identify important social issues that can have an impact on the educational system. Students are required to complete a major research paper.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to study the process of curriculum development from the planning stages to implementation and ultimately evaluation. This course examines the foundations of curriculum, the principles used in designing and applying curriculum, and the current educational, policy and social issues that impact the curriculum field.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides practical skills to meaningfully incorporate technology into the classroom in order to enhance students' understanding of the curriculum. Students create a portfolio; examine Internet resources and evaluate educational software.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to explore how accountability system standards, relevant, engaging curriculum, and valid assessments all fit together to increase student achievement. The process of interdisciplinary, standards-based instruction and assessment are discussed in depth.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Ethics and Educational Law deals with the legal obligations and ethical responsibilities of educators. The course presents an overview of the general topics most commonly experienced by educators including student privacy, gender and disability law, constitutional rulings on prayer and religious expression, discipline, and reporting issues. The rights of teachers, students, and school administrators are discussed within the context of new Supreme Court Rulings.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about online, teaching and learning, integration, and research issues. Students learn to use online content, develop critical thinking skills, and to formulate effective search strategies in order to research and document valuable and current resources. This course outlines how to exploit a variety of Internet- and Web-based discussion and information-sharing tools. Students discuss how to integrate best practices of content authentication and validation into research techniques. Throughout the course, students examine various strategies for locating, evaluating, citing, and applying information resources in the research process and for use in the classroom.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to study the fundamental principles of instructional design, not just as a means of instructional delivery, but also as a system for diagnosing and remediating human performance problems. This course examines the foundations of instructional design, and focus on models that reflect the instructional design process.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course discusses the integration of multimedia with education. Students in this course acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for using multimedia to actively engage their students in learning, and create enthusiasm for class curriculum and instruction. This course presents the fundamental concepts and techniques required for working with multimedia, and solutions for common multimedia pitfalls. Students learn how to use current technology to combine multimedia elements for the effective delivery of educational content.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides an in-depth discussion of both the theories and application of technology in the classroom. Educational technology can enrich and enhance instructional experiences for both the teacher and the student. This course explains, on many levels, how educational technology can provide resources for teachers and students and opens the door to more comprehensive learning as well as extends the learning process. This course examines the latest hardware and software that is enabling new technologies in the classroom, but also explores the idea that the very structure of education needs to be examined in light of these new technological tools.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this capstone project allows students to develop an original, comprehensive research project on a topic of professional or personal interest. Students apply the knowledge and skills acquired in their courses to the work environment. Projects are intended to be of applied and pragmatic nature, producing valuable research outcomes and findings either in connection with the student’s organizational situation, or in the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities. This course satisfies the Proctored Exam requirement for this program.
3 CreditsRequired Books
eLearning Pedagogy
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MED710 - Multidisciplinary Foundations of Education
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MED730 - Curriculum Development, Implementation and Evaluation
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MED700 - Integrating Technologies Across the Curriculum
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MED720 - The Instructional Role of Assessment
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MED740 - Ethics and Educational Law
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EDU500 - Critical Issues in eLearning Paradigms
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EDU505 - Developing Community and Student Engagement in Online Contexts
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EDU510 - Designing High Impact eLearning Environments
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EDU515 - Pedagogical Tools for eLearning
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MED799 - Graduate Capstone
This course gives students an opportunity to study the dynamic and continuing impact of social, political, and economic forces on American education. Students are introduced to the historical evolution of the public schools to help them identify important social issues that can have an impact on the educational system. Students are required to complete a major research paper.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to study the process of curriculum development from the planning stages to implementation and ultimately evaluation. This course examines the foundations of curriculum, the principles used in designing and applying curriculum, and the current educational, policy and social issues that impact the curriculum field.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides practical skills to meaningfully incorporate technology into the classroom in order to enhance students' understanding of the curriculum. Students create a portfolio; examine Internet resources and evaluate educational software.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to explore how accountability system standards, relevant, engaging curriculum, and valid assessments all fit together to increase student achievement. The process of interdisciplinary, standards-based instruction and assessment are discussed in depth.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Ethics and Educational Law deals with the legal obligations and ethical responsibilities of educators. The course presents an overview of the general topics most commonly experienced by educators including student privacy, gender and disability law, constitutional rulings on prayer and religious expression, discipline, and reporting issues. The rights of teachers, students, and school administrators are discussed within the context of new Supreme Court Rulings.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course is designed to examine theories of eLearning and the application in modern learning organizations. The course also examines how learning at a distance is influenced by technology and how the changing tools of technology are shaping this type of learning. Furthermore, critical, social, cultural, and political issues are also examined in relationship to the evolution of these variables and their impact on distance learning. Finally, implications are examined regarding the capacity to connect and how it can conversely drive these levels of change.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course is designed to help students take critical steps in designing and promoting community in a distance-learning environment. The goal of the development of this community is to enhance opportunities for engagement en route to maximizing learning. Students explore web-based communities of practice and the review the impact on team and individual learning. Opportunities for strategic application are examined as well.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course focuses on techniques for designing digital environments that are impactful and engaging. Students analyze distance-learning environments and review the historical notion that earlier incantations of distance learning simply meant bringing that which was presented in real time to a virtual learning space. Students review and identify eLearning environments that are highly engaging, have high levels of impact, and create levels of connectivity that inspire deeper levels of learning.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course is designed to identify tools for virtual pedagogy and to assist students as they begin to establish the sensibility to choose the most effective eLearning tool for the right situation. Effective instruction in a virtual learning environment requires a wide variety of pedagogical strategies for supporting learning at a distance. This course helps students to begin to establish effective instructional strategies for teaching in an online environment.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this capstone project allows students to develop an original, comprehensive research project on a topic of professional or personal interest. Students apply the knowledge and skills acquired in their courses to the work environment. Projects are intended to be of applied and pragmatic nature, producing valuable research outcomes and findings either in connection with the student’s organizational situation, or in the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities. This course satisfies the Proctored Exam requirement for this program.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Transformational Leadership
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MED710 - Multidisciplinary Foundations of Education
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MED730 - Curriculum Development, Implementation and Evaluation
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MED700 - Integrating Technologies Across the Curriculum
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MED720 - The Instructional Role of Assessment
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MED740 - Ethics and Educational Law
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MED780 - Leadership Basics
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MED781 - Educational Innovation
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MED782 - Shaping School and Community Cultures
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MED783 - Communicating and Framing Leadership Issues and Decisions
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MED799 - Graduate Capstone
This course gives students an opportunity to study the dynamic and continuing impact of social, political, and economic forces on American education. Students are introduced to the historical evolution of the public schools to help them identify important social issues that can have an impact on the educational system. Students are required to complete a major research paper.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to study the process of curriculum development from the planning stages to implementation and ultimately evaluation. This course examines the foundations of curriculum, the principles used in designing and applying curriculum, and the current educational, policy and social issues that impact the curriculum field.
3 CreditsRequired Books
This course provides practical skills to meaningfully incorporate technology into the classroom in order to enhance students' understanding of the curriculum. Students create a portfolio; examine Internet resources and evaluate educational software.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to explore how accountability system standards, relevant, engaging curriculum, and valid assessments all fit together to increase student achievement. The process of interdisciplinary, standards-based instruction and assessment are discussed in depth.
3 CreditsRequired Books
Ethics and Educational Law deals with the legal obligations and ethical responsibilities of educators. The course presents an overview of the general topics most commonly experienced by educators including student privacy, gender and disability law, constitutional rulings on prayer and religious expression, discipline, and reporting issues. The rights of teachers, students, and school administrators are discussed within the context of new Supreme Court Rulings.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to explore the definition and application of strategic leadership. The course examines the conceptual foundations of strategy as a leadership skill, discusses the practice of strategy, relates the components of an effective strategy, and evaluates the limits and possibilities of strategic leadership.
3 CreditsRequired Books
In order to be a transformational leader, one who is competent as an agent of change, one must first be transformed as an educator and person. Leaders must format creative ways to deliver education and become prepared to take ownership as a leader. Teachers are given the opportunity to create and work in new educational environments. These opportunities increase the responsibility level and lead to new skills necessary for leadership. Students experience personal reflection about who they are, why they are educators, what they hope to accomplish, and begin setting new professional goals as teacher-leaders. Students discuss the history of American education reform in order to create a personal and professional philosophy for leadership and reform. Readings, reflection, discussions, and experiences are used to help students begin developing a personal philosophy and the skills required for becoming a transformational leader.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to review significant issues in the field of educational leadership. Public education has only recently come to realize the central role instructional leaders play in the success of schools. This course offers insights and examples of how to build a positive, caring, and intellectually challenging culture.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this course is to treat leaders as managers of the meanings of their world. In particular, the course introduces leaders to the skill of framing, which is not in-born but can be taught. Based on extensive research and questionnaires, framing situations, strategies and tools can be identified, analyzed and communicated. This course examines not only the nature of leadership in decision-making, but also the role of communication as an integral component of effective leadership.
3 CreditsRequired Books
The purpose of this capstone project allows students to develop an original, comprehensive research project on a topic of professional or personal interest. Students apply the knowledge and skills acquired in their courses to the work environment. Projects are intended to be of applied and pragmatic nature, producing valuable research outcomes and findings either in connection with the student’s organizational situation, or in the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities. This course satisfies the Proctored Exam requirement for this program.
3 Credits