Curriculum & Instruction

DISTANCE EDUCATION

Vision:
The Curriculum and Instruction Department offers distance education programs of study using socially just, dynamic, rigorous, and relevant projects, processes, and problem-solving experiences that promote life-long learning. Students (undergraduate and graduate), candidates, and graduates will become responsible and committed professionals who create educational, cultural, and social change.

Mission:
Faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction engaged in distance education programs of study will sustain dynamic, rigorous and relevant curricula, pedagogy, and learning, with consideration toward access, place, and time needs of undergraduate and graduate students. Students, candidates and faculty will develop learning communities using a framework that provides knowledge, skills, and dispositions to build effective partnerships in communities, organizations, and classrooms.

Programs:

Programs:

• Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education
• Master of Arts in Education with C&I emphasis
• Master of Arts in Education in Early Childhood Education emphasis
• Master of Arts in Education with Learning Technologies emphasis
• Master of Arts in Teaching with Science emphasis
• Master of Arts in Teaching with Spanish emphasis
• Masters of Arts in Teaching with an Online Teaching Emphasis for K-12 Teachers

Definitions:
On-site classes and programs occur face-to-face on the Main Campus in Las Cruces. Some of these classes may have Web enhancement features or services.

Off-campus Site classes and programs occur face-to-face in remote locations throughout the state or at one of our NMSU institutions.

Distance Education is a formal education process in which learning occurs through any electronic media, including hybrid classes, and/or through face-to-face meetings at off-campus sites.

Online classes and programs occur when the instructors and learners are not in the same physical place for at least 90% of the time, through various electronic media, including asynchronous or synchronous electronic communication such as WebCT/Blackboard, Centra, Skype, Mediasite, and/or ITV. ^*

Hybrid classes and programs occur through any combination of face-to-face (f2f) and electronic media (such as, but not limited to, WebCT/Blackboard, Centra, Skype, Mediasite, and/or ITV), typically in about equal amounts of f2f and media time.

^* Typically, but not always, a class through the College of Education Distance Education Office.