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Program Learning Outcomes

GSEP is committed to a learner-centered approach in the programs we offer. Each program has a set of objectives that a student graduating from the program is expected to achieve. The knowledge and skills taught in the program might be introduced in some courses. In other courses, students are asked to apply knowledge by practicing skills and demonstrating their abilities. Within the program, the values and dispositional attributes important for individuals entering the profession are emphasized.

Graduates of the Online MS in Education program will be expected to achieve the following:

Core Program Learning Outcomes

  • Develop and practice clear, persuasive, and data-supported narratives that advance initiatives and present them using advanced transmedia.
  • Develop and deliver learning experiences by integrating and applying learning theory and tools of technology and assess outcomes of those efforts.
  • Integrate personal, organizational and societal values into leadership initiatives and advance them throughout organizations.

Specialization: Leadership in Learning Design and Technology

  • Analyze theories & characteristics of formal and informal learning environments and integrate use of technology.
  • Understand characteristics and formal and informal learning environments and demonstrate the ability to apply technologies to each setting based on relevant learning theories.

Specialization: Leadership in Pre-K to 12 Education

  • Cultivate a safe and productive learning and working environment and influence social, cultural, political, and legal contexts affecting education.
  • Shape a collaborative culture of teaching and learning focused on student and professional learning, growth and continuous improvement.

Specialization: Leadership in Higher Education

  • Understand, synthesize and apply theories and practices that support governance, legal, fiscal and economic policy at institutions of higher education.
  • Examine, integrate and apply theories and practices that support advancing student services in higher education.

Specialization: Organizational Leadership and Learning

  • Integrate, synthesize and apply management and administration theories that support managing all functions of the learning organization.
  • Examine, integrate and apply theories that promote organizational teamwork and collaboration in learning organizations.