The Learning Design & Leadership online Certificate of Specialization program provides educators and training/learning development professionals (those with a bachelor's degree who are not enrolled in a degree program) the opportunity to learn how to create more engaging learning environments by integrating new media technologies. LDL encourages students to be active designers of their own knowledge, in contrast to old teaching, in which knowledge was handed down to them. Students use new digital media to enhance the ways in which they learn and understand, thus improving the learning process. It also addresses the challenges of differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners.