Online Curriculum and Instruction

Overview

The accredited program is designed for those interested in the integration and usage of e-learning and smart technologies in their teaching and training practices.

The Masters of Arts in Online Curriculum and Instruction degree in education program provides the opportunity for the learner to extend preparation in professional education through coursework and to pursue further work in subject matter areas where he/she feels a need for greater teaching proficiency.

This Masters of Arts in Online Curriculum and Instruction at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University opens an educational space where learners with a first degree in education, human or social sciences will build the capacity needed to technology-enhance their pedagogical practices when they are engaged in education or training careers (adult pedagogy, training, communication, instructional design).

Program Goals

• Prepare learners and future e-instructional engineers to develop, implement, deliver and assess distance education/ online programmes. Perfect their ability to use all features of an online learning environment to improve the practices of their learner(s) and to innovate in their own practice. 

• Expose learners and future pedagogical engineers to major concepts and theories related to learning, teaching and training using educational technologies, as well as the pedagogical applications of these concepts to the effective delivery of online learning.