Learning Outcomes

Educational Technology
Administrator Leadership for Teaching and Learning
Teacher Leadership

In Walden’s Educational Technology program, you will

1. Use technology to design, develop, and assess the teaching and learning process based on sound theory and research.
2. Design and conduct an ethical research study based on a current problem facing educational technology.
3. Critically analyze and assess the impact of social trends on educational technology, and the influence of educational technology on social trends with solid research support.
4. Demonstrate persuasive leadership for social change in the workplace using digital technologies with effective written and oral communication.
5. Use digital and written communications using the standards of academic practice, including accurate APA references and citations, and a concise, succinct, grammatically accurate, and persuasive writing style.
6. Use emerging technologies for diverse, global connections in the workplace.
7. Participate in collaborative projects/research relevant to educational technology to effect positive social change related to the use of technology in the workplace (business, industry or education).

In Walden’s Administrator Leadership for Teaching and Learning program, you will

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the current literature and trends in education.
2. Demonstrate the reflective teaching and learning skills needed by a professional in the field of education.
3. Evaluate, synthesize, and interpret educational research.  (consumer of research)
4. Identify and propose a solution to educational problem(s). (designing/developing research)
5. Demonstrate leadership via effective communication and use of technology.
6. Demonstrate leadership through effective communication about educational issues/ topics to popular audiences in written work, speech, and through using technology.
7. Utilize effective communication skills in presenting academic research so as to elicit social change.
8. Show awareness of global interrelationships and affirm diversity in their own work about teaching and learning.
9. Be familiar with scholarship in the field of education that is sensitive to global interrelationships and affirms diversity.
10. Collaborate with a range of stakeholders in education and/or learning organizations in order to effect positive social change.
11. Demonstrate active commitment to social change.

In Walden’s Teacher Leadership program, you will

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the current literature and trends in education.
2. Demonstrate the reflective teaching and learning skills needed by a professional in the field of education.
3. Evaluate, synthesize, and interpret educational research. (consumer of research)
4. Identify and propose a solution to educational problem(s). (designing/developing research)
5. Demonstrate leadership via effective communication and use of technology.
6. Demonstrate leadership through effective communication about educational issues/topics to popular audiences in written work, speech, and through using technology.
7. Show awareness of global interrelationships and affirm diversity in their own work about teaching and learning.
8. Be familiar with scholarship in the field of education that is sensitive to global interrelationships and affirms diversity.
9. Collaborate with a range of stakeholders in education and/or learning organizations in order to effect positive social change.
10. Demonstrate active commitment to social change.