Multimedia Design and Development Certificate

As a multimedia designer and developer, you will craft engaging, interactive experiences that blend visuals, sound, and technology to communicate ideas and inspire audiences across digital platforms.

Program Information

The Multimedia Design and Development Certificate Program provides a research and skills foundation to develop practitioners in multimedia development for teaching and instruction. Courses provide a background in message design, audiovisual design, simulations, instructional games, practice, and theory. This certificate program will give students the technical skills needed to work as an instructional developer. Grounded in the expected technical skills for someone with this employment, the certificate requirements consist of four courses that cover the design, development, and evaluation of instructional graphics and desktop publishing media, instructional audio and video artifacts, games and simulations in instruction, and the theoretical principles behind the effective design and development of multimedia for instruction.

Students will be able to:

Apply theories and principles of multimedia design for instruction
Create examples of static and dynamic multimedia instruction
Create audiovisual instruction
Create and apply simulations and games to achieve instructional objectives

Admission

Meet the ISU Graduate School admissions requirements
Admission to the MEd in Instructional Design & Technology or
Submission of a letter of interest and resume or CV, followed by an interview with program faculty in the Instructional Design & Technology program.