ONLINE MASTER’S IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

In this course students develop academic written and oral skills, interpersonal communication skills, and technology skills for presentations and organizational communication.   The relationship between communication and organizational culture is addressed.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Demonstrate academic and professional written, oral, and technological communication skills, including the use of appropriate APA writing style.
2. Evaluate various modes of organizational communication, including technology, and its impact on communicating the organizational culture.
3. Explore and apply various communication styles including variations found within diverse cultural, gender, and generational groups.
4. Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills that promote inclusiveness.

This course examines management strategies for supporting organizational systems and infrastructure within an educational organization. Management styles and models, technology assisted budgetary decision making, project management, and crises management are addressed.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Differentiate between leadership and management.
2. Evaluate management models and styles.
3. Articulate one’s personal management style.
4. Identify and analyze the interrelatedness of informal and formal internal systems sustaining the vitality of the educational organization.
5. Employ technology-assisted budgetary decision making skills and theories that drive organizational improvement.
6. Apply project management skills.
7. Design an organizational infrastructure to ensure a safe and effective environment.
8. Discuss prioritization and action strategies for managing crises.
9. Apply ethical principles to management practices.

This course focuses on designing and evaluating curriculum and instructional strategies to create programs that meet the needs of all learners including adults. Curriculum design models, instructional methodologies, methods for authentic assessment of learning, and learning styles are explored.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Examine and apply curriculum design models and instructional strategies in order to teach, train, and supervise adults.
2. Apply learning style theory for instruction.
3. Evaluate and apply methods of authentic assessment of learning.
4. Create learning experiences that meet the needs of all learners through the development of appropriate curricular and instructional strategies.
5. Examine methods for promoting educational strategies within an organization.

This course is designed to study and apply learning theories that engage diverse adult learners in professional and personal development. The main focus is developing coaching and team building skills, creating a learning organization through the use of adult learning theory, establishing staff development, and comparing androgogy and pedagogy.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Examine and apply strategies for professional development incorporating theories of adult learning.
2. Compare and synthesize androgogical and pedagogical instructional approaches.
3. Define and identify components of a learning organization to promote effectiveness.
4. Determine methods for creating and sustaining a learning organization.
5. Demonstrate coaching, mentoring, and team building practices incorporating adult learning theory.
6. Demonstrate an integration of demographic and cultural understanding into adult learning situations.

In this summative course, participants conduct an in-depth study of action research, data collection and data analysis processes, ethical implications of research, and research as a continuous improvement tool. This learning is applied to various professional settings through the creation of an individualized action research project and a written paper, which includes an introduction, a review of current literature, research questions, a description of the methodology and means of evaluation, the findings and interpretation of results, and possible questions for further study.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Review relevant scholarly literature on a selected topic.
2. Synthesize and evaluate findings from relevant, scholarly literature on a selected topic.
3. Compose an educational research question.
4. Apply skills to plan and conduct descriptive research.
5. Use academic writing skills and APA style.

Prerequisite: EL 630 Educational Research