Educational Technology, M.A.

The graduate program in Educational Technology offers courses leading to the Master of Arts degree. The Master’s of Arts in Educational Technology offers two program concentrations: (1) Instructional Technology and (2) Visual Communication. The Instructional Technology Concentration (licensure) focuses on preparing students to become “practitioners of technology” in K-12 settings. This concentration requires an “A” teaching certification upon program entry, the completion of a practicum and an ePortfolio upon program exit. Students completing the program will qualify for a North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 077 – Instructional Technology Specialist Computer License and a North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 079 – Technology Endorsement. Students must apply to the Department of Public Instruction for their license. Students completing the program will serve as educators in the K-12 setting in positions including teachers, technology facilitators, or technology coordinators. The Visual Communication concentration updates the older traditional program into a more current and dynamic graduate program of study that takes advantage of current technology and prepares candidates to be more commercially viable. The Visual Communications Concentration is designed from an educational standpoint to create experts in the discipline of education who have the expertise to develop, create, and implement visual media.