Specializations in:
-Adult Education and Training
-Classroom Integration of Technology
-Curriculum and Instruction for Educators
-Educational Assessment and Evaluation
-Instructional Design and Technology
-Leadership of Educational Organizations

The role of instructors, instructional designers, and curriculum developers has changed dramatically over the past decade. The emphasis in education today focuses on ensuring that educational programs help learners understand abstract concepts, solve problems, work as effective team members, and develop critical thinking skills. Additionally, the burgeoning role of technology in the learning process has developed the demand for both educators and designers who have solid skills in utilizing technology in the classroom, laboratory, and distributed learning environments. The Master of Education Degree provides a solid foundation for effective educational practice and career advancement for all levels of educational practitioners including K-12, higher education, and corporate learning. Students develop a solid foundation in learning theory, instructional design, and instructional technology, as well as application of educational research methods.

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Upon completion of the MBA program, the student should be able to:

1. Analyze research findings to respond to academic, physical, social and cultural differences in educating students and recommend method modifications based on research results.
2. Design educational programs that effectively address objectives integrating the appropriate use of various instructional media and technologies for learning.
3. Develop educational programs that use the appropriate criteria for selecting curricular content, organization of content and methods of curriculum evaluation.
4. Create a plan for implementation of learning content in various educational settings.
5. Evaluate the opportunities and challenges involved in the organizational development and delivery of learning programs using formative and summative instruments.
6. Evaluate educational situations and problems in order to develop and substantiate solutions using leadership and management strategies.

AIU has developed a unique assessment process to assess the quality of student work in four major areas throughout our program. Every class has one common assignment that is used to rate each student's abilities in Communication, Critical Analysis, Professional Mastery, and Research. These criteria are linked to course, program, and institutional level learning outcomes. The data from these assessments are used to gauge the progress of learning within our program.

Professional Mastery of Content: This assessment measures the use of appropriate, relevant, and innovative content exploring the subject matter of the course in order to solve problems and analyze current trends, theories, opportunities and challenges.

Research: This assessment measures the students' ability to demonstrate consistent use of credible, relevant sources to support ideas and to present material in appropriate APA format with minimal errors.

Communication: This assessment measures the students' use of straightforward language that conveys meaning to readers. The language has few errors. Sentences are correctly constructed, with few run-ons or fragments. Agreements between subject and verb, and pronouns and antecedents, are correct. There are few errors of punctuation or spelling.

Critical Analysis: This assessment measures the students' ability to evaluate, integrate, and critique a variety of opinions, beliefs, abstract ideas, and data to inform judgment, identify and solve problems, and, where appropriate, propose new hypotheses.

The results shown below reflect student achievement for all courses within the Master of Education program. The figures represent the percentage of students who received above average (exemplary or accomplished) ratings for the rubric criteria. The results are for the second quarter of 2010, with a total of 297 students in 22 course sections.

Professional Mastery = 73%
Communication = 77%
Critical Analysis = 67%
Research = 70%

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