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Academic Program

Teaching, Learning and Technology

Learn strategies to enhance education by integrating best practices and leading-edge technologies that improve teaching across instructional settings.

Our Teaching, Learning and Technology program supports students in expanding their understanding of how individuals learn and how to design learning environments that best serve all students.  Working with faculty experts, students develop innovative curricula and learning environments that integrate technology and support individuals of all abilities and backgrounds. 

About

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology degree programs prepare educators for classroom and non-classroom settings through a variety of graduate-level educational experiences. All of our professional degree programs explore research-based best practices in teaching, learning, and technology and are carefully designed to integrate course work and practicum experiences, leading to Pennsylvania certification and/or a graduate certificate or degree.

Our doctoral research studies focus on the optimal design, development, and integration of innovative practice and/or learning technologies to enhance teaching and learning in diverse settings. Program faculty and students collaborate in researching creative new approaches in a variety of instructional settings including PreK-16 classrooms, online learning environments, and informal learning settings. 

Teachers, schools and industries are looking to incorporate more technology into teaching and learning in innovative and effective ways. Our certificate and master’s degree programs are targeted toward people from varied backgrounds who want to learn to incorporate technology more effectively in educational settings.

Accreditation

We are accredited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to offer general education teacher certification programs in Biology 7-12, Mathematics 7-12, Chemistry 7-12, Physics 7-12, Earth and Space Science 7-12, PreK-4, English 7-12, Social Studies 7-12, General Science 7-12, and Program Specialist - English as a Second Language PK-12.

TLT Spotlight

  • Araujo-Junior

    Araujo-Junior Selected as Elizabeth V. Stout Dissertation Award Recipient

    Lehigh’s College of Education has selected Robson M. Araujo-Junior to receive the Elizabeth V. Stout Award for his dissertation, “Watershed Explorers: Digital Gameful Learning Experience Gameplay Investigated with Immersive Virtual Reality within a Technology-Enhanced Lifelong Learning Ecology.” 

    The award recognizes significant scholarly achievement in a dissertation project.

  • Sarah McDermott

    McDermott Receives Williams Prize

    Sarah McDermott has received a Williams Prize from Lehigh for outstanding work in writing and performance. Her entry, titled "Adolescents' Gender-Typed Communication Behaviors and Friendship Experiences," was awarded first place in the Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology category for Spring 2025.

  • Jiayan Zhu

    Zhu Selected for Graduate Life Leadership Award

    Jiayan Zhu, has received the COE Graduate Life Leadership Award. This award recognizes a graduate student in each of Lehigh's five colleges who exhibits exemplary commitment, leadership and service to the university's graduate student community and whose efforts have made significant contributions to graduate student life.

  • 2025 COE Student Research Colloquium

    COE Grad Students Present at 2025 Colloquium

    What a great event! Thirty-three COE graduate students shared their high-impact research at the Inaugural College of Education Student Research Colloquium last Friday. Students from the Counseling Psychology, Educational Leadership, School Psychology, Special Education and Teaching, Learning and Technology programs participated in the Mountaintop campus poster session.

    Thank you to everyone who came out to show their support.

Faculty & Staff