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MAED/DE Courses
Master of Arts in Education Adult Education and Distance Learning ...

University of Phoenix Online degree program.

Here's the curriculum with my reflections:

Course # Course Title My Reflection
COM 516 Professional Communications Very challenging course with lots of course work. Intimidating as a first online experience because it requires you to adapt to the online learning experience quickly or fail the course. Requires lots of self initiative.
EDTC 510 Foundations of Distance Education and Training Much more relaxed course work requiring reflection of the content provided in the course textbook.
EDD 511 Adult Learning: Theories, Principles and Applications Challenging course with excellent textbook. The DQs provoked reflection and synthesis of past knowledge with new material.
CUR 524 Instructional Design This is the bread and butter of the program as I see it. Very relevant to corporate training programs. K-12 educators would probaby resist the material in this course.
EDTC 526 Assessment and Evaluation in E-Education I did not care for the way the material in this course was presented. The instructor was largely absent and provided irrlevant DQ responses and feedback. Mostly relevant to K-12 education not adult education.
QNT 540 Research and Ethics in E-Education I enjoyed this course but found it mostly review from previous college courses.
EDTC 550 Information Technology A very relaxed course but largely elementary in content. I would have preferred more in depth learning of information technology beyond review of databases.
EDTC 555 Internet and Distance Education Delivery This course was all about delivery platforms...unfortunately I found the flip flop of terminologies and course assignments confusing. Much of the work was review for me.
EDTC 560 Applications of Multimedia and Web Page Design
EDTC 570 Courseware Authoring
EDTC 575 E-Education in the Global Environment
EDTC 590 E-Education Capstone