Intensive Masters Program: Overview

The Program in Computing and Education has been offering an M.A. degree since 1974. In 1983 we began offering an Intensive version of this degree program in which students come to Teachers College only in the summer (in July) and complete the degree requirements through independent study and online courses from where they live. Each summer we have accepted approximately 20 new students for whom it is impossible or inconvenient to come here easily during the Fall and Spring terms. To date, over 500 students have completed the Intensive Program.

This is a program exclusively for teachers - or others who work with schools, such as technology coordinators and curriculum specialists. To be part of the Intensive M.A. cohort, you need to be currently teaching or working with schools on the elementary or secondary level, or to have done so in the past.

If you live in the New York City area, you are also welcome to come to courses in the M.A. program year-round. The "Intensive" program is the same program and the same degree as the "regular," year-round version, except for how the courses are offered. If you are interested in seeing more about the year-round program, please visit the Teachers College site, click on Academic Departments, then on Mathematics, Science, and Technology (our department), and then on Computing and Education or Instructional Technology.

The Intensive program contains four separate concentrations of study: Multimedia Development; Telecommunications and Global Issues; Teaching and Learning with Technology; and Technology Leadership. These are informal concentrations, designed to help organize your study here. Each has several core courses, but they are also highly overlapping. Descriptions follow.

Program Sponsor

The Intensive Program is designed by the Center for Technology and School Change at Teachers College. The purpose of the Center is to help schools integrate technology successfully into their curricula, to study issues in student and school use of technology, and to develop technology tools and products for education.