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Learning and Design M.Ed. Program

Learning and Design Program Overview

Understand how learning happens both in and outside the classroom and how to develop instructional designs that support this learning through the master’s degree program in Learning and Design , an instructional design degree at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.

Through this 10-month-long program, you’ll work to discover how learning happens across diverse settings and how to bolster and enhance it. You’ll create and study environments that have impact across scale, time, and context.

 

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Program Director: Andrew L. Hostetler, Ph.D.
Admission Term: Summer (early July start)
Credit Hours: 31
Priority Application Deadline: December 31* for fall entrance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program Curriculum

Coursework through the Learning and Design program concentrates on the combination of core and elective classes. It culminates with a final Capstone project. Throughout the program you’ll focus on three interrelated core emphases: learning, design, and diversity

  • The learning core focuses on theories of learning and their application and implications in formal and informal settings. These theoretical perspectives provide the foundations for the design work.
  • The design core explores implications of the learning core through a user-centered design process, which emphasizes the importance of interacting with users from the very beginning of the process.
  • The diversity core drives and informs both the learning and design cores.