Bloomsburg MSIT Recruitment Slides
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The Department of Instructional Technology offers a year-long graduate program focused on instructional design for both education and corporate contexts, emphasizing hands-on software experience, teamwork, and writing skills. With a high employment rate of 97% within three months of graduation, students develop business proposals and multimedia projects for actual organizations through collaboration with a corporate advisory council. The program admits approximately 120 students per year, providing a mix of campus-based and e-learning curriculum opportunities.
Bloomsburg MSIT Recruitment Slides
- 2. What Do I Do?
- 3. What is the Department of Instructional Technology? • Year long program, graduate level program • Curriculum revolves around instructional design (creating online learning) • Includes hands-on software experience • Offer Campus-based and e-learning curriculum • Requires group work • Requires writing skills (top concern among our corporate advisory council members). • Two Tracks – Education – Corporate
- 4. Content Focus Instructional Design/Educational Methods Current Hardware And Software Business Knowledge DIT
- 5. Program Focus Students Research and Development Corporate Partnerships and Strategic Alliances Marketing and Recruitment Efforts State of the Industry Hardware and Software
- 6. Graduation of Students • Twenty Students a Semester • 120 Students Total • Three Semesters a Year • Knowledgeable in and of the Field – Communications Skills – Business Knowledge – Instructional Design Theory – Hands-On Software
- 7. What do the Student’s Learn • Web Skills • Analysis Skills • Instructional Design Skills • Teamwork • Presentation Skills
- 9. Who Hires Our Students Successful Graduates: 97% employment within 3 months of graduation
- 10. Managing Multimedia Projects • Form students into companies (teams) • Provide Request for Proposal – Centered around E-learning • Students develop: – Business proposal – Working Prototype – Sales Presentation
- 11. Corporate Advisory Council • RFP Exercise • Student/Corporate Interaction • Exposure to Leading Edge Instructional Technology Concepts and Ideas – Between CAC Members – Student RFP Response – View of Working Prototypes
- 12. Advanced Instructional Design • Multimedia Development for Local Organizations – Hospitals – Businesses – Government Services • Complete Instructional Design Process • Required to pre- and post-test learners • Team project
- 16. •Graduate Assistantship •2 courses a semester •$1,000 Stipend •Employers Visit Campus •High Placement Rate •High Salary Range •Exciting Career
- 17. Questions?