Graduate Degrees Offered

• Instructional Technology
• Internet-Based Education
• Teaching, Curriculum and Learning

Distance Education Opportunities

Required by the Office of Graduate Studies

• Online Application for Graduate Admission
• $45 non-refundable application processing fee
• Two (2) sets of official transcripts
• If your native language is not English: verification of English proficiency
• If you are not a US citizen and you expect to hold an F or J visa: financial resource information

Required by Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education

• Entrance exam(s):
  Master's Applicants:  None
  Doctoral Applicants:  GRE
• Minimum TOEFL:  Paper-550  Internet-79
• Three letters of recommendation
• Department application
• Resume
• Statement of goals
• Writing sample (doctorate only)
• Use GAMES for online submission of materials (doctorate only)

Description of Program

The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education offers master's and doctoral degrees that:

• Engage in and with current educational research.
• Fit individual needs.
• Offer rich opportunities to work with highly qualified faculty members who are actively engaged in cross-disciplinary scholarship focused on schools and communities.
• Challenge in breadth and depth to change and improve education for all.

For example, a student might work with a professor studying the relationships between teacher content knowledge and pedagogical understandings. Or, one could work with researchers examining the changing needs of Nebraska, the United States, and other parts of the world through multiple lenses such as multiculturalism; transnationalism; educational reform; policy implementation; second language acquisition; reading diagnosis and remediation; literacy, language, and culture; foreign language education; and instructional technologies.

Students will find new ways to view the work of teachers, teaching, learners, and learning. The coursework explores relationships across cultures and schooling, ethics, human well-being, and education for diversity; thus, fostering professional development alongside preparing people for positions of leadership in varied educational settings. The programs grow educational leaders who can "make a difference" for the future in multiple educational settings.

Some online courses are available.