What is instructional and performance technology (IPT)?

IPT is about improving human learning and performance in the workplace and helping organizations achieve their goals.

Human learning and performance improvement in the workplace requires more than training or education alone. Therefore, the IPT program educates students to be open to various solutions to help individuals and organizations achieve their goals. In the IPT program, students explore many factors that affect job performance, such as knowledge and skills, job expectations, task design, human factors, ergonomic and environmental factors, incentive systems, feedback systems, tools, job aids, and resources. Students learn how to think strategically and design interventions that will address all the needed factors (in addition to training or education) to achieve the desired results. They learn how to define and clarify those results and how to implement solutions that impact human performance.

Why should you pursue an IPT master's degree or an HPT graduate certificate?

IPT is a professional degree program. Before considering to earn a M.S. degree in IPT and/or a graduate certificate in HPT, it is important that you evaluate your own educational and career goals, and see if the IPT degree or HPT certificate would be a good match for you.

If you are working, or pursuing careers, in  the fields of instructional design, e-learning, training, workforce development, program evaluation, or performance consulting, the IPT master's degree or the HPT graduate certificate programs will help you improve your professional knowledge and skills and further advance your careers. See testimonials to learn more about how IPT students/graduates have benefited from earning the IPT master's degree.

To ask questions regarding whether or not the IPT master's degree or HPT certificate program is a good fit for your goals and interests, please contact the Associate Program Developer, Ms. Jo Ann Fenner.