In January 2025, instructional design, development and evaluation (IDDE) professors Moon-Heum Cho and Rob Pusch visited the latest cohort of students in the IDDE Fellowship Program.
The program is offered by the School of Education through the Sergeants Major Academy (SGM-A) at the Noncommissioned Officer Leadership Center of Excellence (NCOLCOE), located at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
“During our time there, we conducted three two-hour sessions and interacted with the military students,” says Cho. “Professor Pusch covered content from his human performance technology course, while I focused on material from the evaluation course. We also sought the students’ feedback on how to improve their educational journey.”
The academy’s relationship with the IDDE program began in 2019 when sergeants major were offered the opportunity to complete an IDDE master’s degree fully online. Syracuse was selected as SGM-A’s educational partner because of the high quality of the IDDE master’s program, as well as support offered from the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families, the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, and the Center for Online and Digital Learning at the College of Professional Studies.
Catch up with fellowship students in Cohort 10 to learn about their military and educational journeys, why they chose the IDDE master’s degree program, and how they hope this credential will benefit their future.