Instructional Design (M.S.)

Now accepting applications for the fall 2025 semester! Contact Ginger Hermon, Senior Enrollment Counselor of Adult and Graduate Admissions, at ghermon @ grandview.edu for more information.

Our Master of Science in Instructional Design is an interdisciplinary program field that combines theories and methods of education, psychology, and communication. It will prepare you to make an impact on diverse learners in a wide range of settings.

Instructional designers create learning materials that reflect an evidence-based understanding of how people learn most effectively. Instructional design has applications in educational settings and in workplaces where employees need training or retraining.

Instructional designers need to be well-versed in learning assessment so they can confirm that the materials accomplish the specified goals. Instructional designers also need to be effective team players because they rarely are experts in the subject area where they are creating materials.

This 33-credit degree program includes four certificates (Instructional Design Foundations, Learning Assessments, Instructional Design Technology, and Instructional Design Facilitation). The certificates can be taken alone or stacked in any combination. The first three are embedded in the master's program curriculum.