Lay the foundation for the modern classroom.

Quality Digital Learning (formerly Educational Technology) is 30% about the tech and 70% about the pedagogy. Whether you consider yourself a tech guru or a newbie, we can help you make sure that technology is working for you and your students instead of the other way around.

In this program, you’ll not only complete the requirements for a New Hampshire state Digital Learning Specialist licensure, you’ll also learn how to be a Digital Learning leader in your school, a savvy consumer of technology who can facilitate conversations focused on learning outcomes and the reality of your students’ lives, guiding your colleagues to make wise choices in technology selection and integration.

These certificates are offered by AU New England.

Program Overview

In the Digital Learning Specialist concentration NH State Licensure Pathway program, students explore the ways that pedagogy and technology support and magnify one another because quality educational technology integration is 30% technology and 70% pedagogy. This program is designed for classroom teachers who wish to add a New Hampshire Digital Learning Specialist credential to their existing licensure.

• Enhance your capacity to teach all students well.
• Explore the social justice implications of technology.
• Promote creative problem-solving and real-world learning.
• Foster a strong sense of community rather than isolation for your students.
• Ensure that technology is used appropriately and in support of higher-order thinking skills, and not just rote tasks.

Curriculum

Program Length

• 5-6 semesters, 22-credit program
• 1-2 courses per term

Our small, fully online courses combine the flexibility of online learning with the community and collegiality you crave. You’ll learn with educators from all over the world, creating new expertise via experiential learning, application of new ideas, and creation of new tools and strategies. Classes focus on both theoretical and practical exploration, impacting your teaching in both the short and long term. Most importantly, we realize that our students are working professionals with busy lives, so we work with you to make the best use of your time and meet your individual learning goals.

Featured Courses 

• Tech Tools for All Learners: This course builds a collaborative understanding of modern teaching and learning, its roots and its opportunities. We will explore when and how to use technology-and when not to in order to best magnify the power of content areas such as math, arts, and science. This course will help participants identify and assess the resources available to them in their schools as well as how to best use those tools in their own instruction in all content areas in ways that support all learners (and plan for the careful selection of new resources). Participants will explore methods of developing online portfolios and develop a portfolio demonstrating their use of a wide variety of tools in the classroom. Online Course.
• Educational Advocacy and Leadership: This course builds capacity for instructional and professional community growth and leadership in the student’s concentration area. Participants will examine emerging tools and trends that will impact schools and their communities through their own field research, review of professional literature, and participation in online learning communities. Participants will collaboratively prepare instructional plans, policies, procedures, and/or budgets demonstrating their understandings of how to best implement and advocate for their technology integration for community development and learning in the classroom and beyond. Online course.
• Building Inclusive Learning Communities: This course explores face-to-face and online community building tools and strategies as well as facilitation of learning experiences that support all learners, including those with special needs. We will explore the use of technology to allow for new kinds of communities to be formed, including those that connect learners across cultures and connect classrooms to external resources, both digital and human in order to better differentiate in the content areas. We will also explore the use of social media in the classroom, what it means to be a digital citizen, and how to help students and teachers use technology safely, responsibly and respectfully. Online Course.

Online Courses:

• Tech Tools for All Learners
• Educational Advocacy and Leadership
• Building Inclusive Learning Communities
• Principles of STEAM
• Critical Skills Classroom Immersion (On Campus) OR Introduction to  the Critical Skills Classroom (online) 
• Internship in Digital Learning

Optional On-Campus Courses at Antioch University New England:

• Critical Skills Classroom Immersion (On Campus) 

For course descriptions, please see the current course catalog.

Optional Summer Residencies 

If you choose to come to a summer residency instead of doing your program fully on-line, you can expect  one or two weeks of a retreat-like experience in beautiful Keene, NH.  Small classes offer lots of hands-on activities, community-based learning opportunities, and a socially engaging week of meeting with your on-line classmates and AUNE  faculty.   In most concentrations you have a choice of whether to attend face-to-face classes for either one or two weeks in the summer, and you don’t have to decide in advance.  You can consult with your adviser and see what fits your schedule and learning style best. 

Dates for residencies 

The Experienced Educators Summer Residency Courses are held the first two full weeks of July following the week of the Fourth of July holiday- typically the first and second or second and third weeks of the month.  You can choose to attend for the first or second week, or come for both weeks depending on your program.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Digital Learning Specialist MEd program have the capacity to:

• Use the cycle of inquiry and reflection to better use current technology and plan for technology in development.
• Build and maintain digital and face-to-face learning communities that model shared responsibility and citizenship in both online and local networks.
• Understand how to select the most effective technology for your students’ learning goals.
• Create rigorous, engaging learning experiences that draw on both high-tech and high-touch (both digital and local community) resources.
• Make intentional choices around instruction and assessment that are sensitive to and inclusive of differences in class, race, culture, and learning difference.

Career Outlook

6-8 possible job titles: 

• Educational Technology Integrator
• Educational Technology Teacher
• Digital Learning Integrator
• Digital Learning Specialist
• Technology Teacher

Harness the therapeutic power of dance.

As dance/movement therapists, we believe that a person’s lived bodily experience is central to the therapeutic process, and that dancing is life-affirming. Relational bodily action is the primary agent of change. The DMT program presents both nonverbal and verbal approaches, enhanced by training in MFT. Students determine the methods that resonate with their professional identity as dance/movement therapists, and best serve a diverse clientele.

Our graduates work with individuals, couples, families, and groups in a variety of settings including psychiatric, VA, medical, rehabilitation, pediatric hospitals; community mental health facilities; schools; residential treatment centers for children, adolescents, elders; and correctional facilities.

The DMT program holds an abiding commitment to social justice, multicultural inclusion, and anti-oppressive practice by working to transform relationships of power.

This degree is offered by AU New England

Program Overview

The master’s program in Dance/Movement Therapy at Antioch University New England (AUNE) was one of the first to be accredited by the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA). Students become registered dance/movement therapists (R-DMT) upon completion of the master’s degree requirements. Antioch’s MA in Dance Movement Therapy with a concentration in Couple and Family Therapy also meets education requirements in many states for licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist* (*Check with your state licensure board for verification). The CFT courses are offered through a Low Residency (LR) delivery with online classes and in-person residencies. All DMT courses are offered on-campus. For those who are unable to commute or move to the Keene area, there is an option to take the DMT courses via LR delivery.

Service-based experiential learning. Students integrate theory and practice in a small classroom setting concurrent with a broad range of fieldwork experiences:

• 1st year DMT practica with: (a) elders; (b) adults with intellectual disabilities; and (c) infants and their caretakers, learning from leading experts in the Kestenberg Movement Profile, a developmental movement assessment framework.
• 2nd year CFT practica near home (for LR students) or at the Antioch University Couple and Family Therapy Institute at Keene (for on-campus students)
• 3rd year board-certified DMT (BC-DMT) supervised 700-hour internship anywhere in the US or abroad.

Dance Therapy and social action. Dance can be a conduit for lifting the voices of marginalized persons and empowering communities. Our initiatives include:

• One Billion Rising – DMT students use dance to bring awareness to gender-based violence.
• Annual Dance Recital – DMT and other students celebrate personal experiences in- community through dance.
• Conferences – Students are encouraged and supported to present on their social locations and experiences.
• Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Visiting Home & Reservation! Community members share on the themes of home and reservation through the arts.

Other benefits of the program include:

• Alternate Route Drama Therapy Training: A student can opt to complete additional credits to become a registered drama therapist according to the National Association for Drama Therapy (NADT) Alternate Training Guidelines. AUNE offers up to 84% of the credits required.
• DMT students take dance classes at Keene State College for free; and attend their events at a reduced student rate.

Degree Requirements

Program Length

This 63-64-credit program of coursework and clinical training spans two and a half (2.5) to three (3) years in your choice of two delivery models.

On-Campus (a combination of on-campus and online classes and residencies)
A good choice for those who can/want to attend some face-to-face classes in Keene, NH

Year One:

• Classes (Tuesdays and Wednesdays, including DMT practica)
• 3 MFT residencies in Keene: 2 days in the Fall, 1 day in the Spring, and 3 days in Summer. Courses continue online through each semester

Year Two:

• Classes (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)
• 2 MFT residencies: Fall and Spring. Courses continue online through each semester
• MFT practica (2 days/week)

Year Three:

• DMT Internship (700 hours, 6-9 months), anywhere in the US where there is an American Dance Therapy Association (BC-DMT) supervisor
• An accompanying online group internship seminar and one supervision weekend in December provides additional support

Total Credits 63-64

Low-residency (without attending weekly on-campus classes).  The low-residency option has a summer entry only.  The next available start term for this delivery is Summer 2021.

Year One:

• 2 DMT in-person residencies (June & Sept) and continue courses online
• 3 CFT in-person residencies (Sept, Jan & June) and continue courses online

Year Two:

• Courses online; CFT practica (2 days/week); 4 in-person residencies (2 CFT Sept & Jan, 2 DMT Jun & Sept)

Year Three

• DMT Internship (700 hours, 6-9 months) anywhere in the US where there is an American Dance Therapy Association (BC-DMT) supervisor; 3 in-person residencies (1 CFT May, 2 DMT June & Sept).  An accompanying online group internship seminar and one supervision weekend in December provides additional support.

Total Credits 63

Organizational sustainability, leadership and management skills are essential in nearly any environmental context. We’re here to help you gain the leadership, organizational management, facilitation and community engagement skills to succeed in a variety non-profit, non-governmental, academic, governmental and/or for-profit organizational contexts. Understanding both internal and external organizational issues of justice, human rights, inclusion, and sustainability are essential to social responsibility and leadership. Students enrolled in this certificate gain skills, knowledge and experiences to address these issues at multiple levels—personal, organizational and environmental—in socially responsible ways to serve as catalysts for change throughout their careers.

This certificate is offered by AU New England.

Program Overview

AUNE’s Environmental Studies Department is committed to building leaders and learners capable of addressing today’s complex issues in innovative ways. Effectively building students’ socially responsible organizational capacities is essential to this commitment. This certificate builds upon our proven track record of graduates serving as change agents and justice-minded leaders in a variety of organizational contexts.

Degree Requirements

Program Length:

The certificate can be completed within 9 to 12 months. Socially Responsible Organizational Leadership certificate courses meet one day/week, hybrid, online and/or as intensives, aligned with our current Environmental Studies’ delivery models.

Requirements

The Environmental Studies Department offers this 9-credit (minimum) certificate to matriculated and non-matriculated students. Matriculated students who fulfill the requirements of a certificate will earn a dual credential along with their Master of Science. We believe that each of these certificates add tremendous value to Antioch students’ professional development and career opportunities. Students complete the required courses from the Environmental Studies MS curriculum, a minimum of (3 credits) from each of the following areas:

1. Certificate Core Requirement (minimum 3 credits):
   • ESC 5440 Leadership for Change (3-credit)
2. Organizational Sustainability (minimum 3 credits):
   • ESM 5160 Building Sustainable Organizations (3-credit)
   • ESAF 5000 Financial Administration (3-credits)
   • ESS 5780 Principles of Sustainability (3-credits)
3. Application (minimum 3 credits):
   • ESPE 5600 Energy & Materials Sustainability (3 credit)
   • ESPE 5605 Facilitating Organizational Sustainable Practice (1-credit, online)
   • ESPE 6005 Organizational Materials & Waste Management (1-credit, online)
   • ESPE 6010 Energy Transition: Renewable (1-credit, online)
   • ES 5440 Proposal Writing and Project Management (3-credits)
   • ESE 5060 Program Evaluation for Conservation & Environmental Educators (3-credits)
   • ES 5170 Diversity, Justice and Inclusion (2 credit)
   • ES 5030 Dispute Resolution (1-credit)
   • ES 5040 Consulting Skills (1credit)
   • ES 5890 Global Cultural Awareness and Literacy (1-credit, online)