教学心理学与技术致力于识别和实施教学改进，并理解影响这些改进的原理。IP＆T应用这些原理来解决教学环境中出现的教学问题，包括公立学校和大学，政府，教堂，军事，商业和工业。设计与开发课程旨在让学生为在公司，政府和高等教育机构中担任教学设计师做好准备。教学设计人员通常在技能各异的专业团队中工作，以设计和开发学习材料。例如，一个普通的团队可能由以下人员组成：指导设计师，内容专家，项目经理，图形设计师，多媒体专家，开发人员和作家。作为设计师，您应该开发一套技能，使您能够为该团队贡献特定技能，并具有理解其他成员角色
The Design and Development Track is intended to prepare students for work as an instructional designer, in corporate, government, and higher education settings. Instructional designers typically work in diversely skilled teams of professionals to design and develop learning materials. For example, a common team might consist of: an instructional designer, a content-matter specialist, a project manager, a graphic designer, a multimedia specialist, a developer, and a writer. As a designer, you should develop a skillset that enables you to contribute a specific skill to this team as well as a general ability to understand the other members roles so that you can communicate effectively.