tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post1895175925932871864..comments2023-08-17T10:18:24.628-04:00Comments on Multilitteratus Incognitus: Online Doctorates, degree designation, and misunderstanding of what it all means...Apostolos K. ("AK")http://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-12792940749861279932015-01-06T15:50:44.588-05:002015-01-06T15:50:44.588-05:00The 2005 research cited in Dr. Carr-Chellman's...The 2005 research cited in Dr. Carr-Chellman's piece had those polled responding circa 2002 to a situation in which a potential candidate receives a degree from a virtual university with no 'library or labs.' <br />I wouldn't hire anyone from a doctoral program whose university did not have a library, whether it was online or brick and mortar. What a flawed study!<br /> Doctoral education can now be taken from a for-profit university, via the affordances of the web an by any number of names; the EdD, the DBA, the EngD, DEd and so on.<br />The paucity of scholarship in doctoral education is not so well known. <br />The quality of a doctoral program depends not on its delivery mode, but on an ongoing examination of the pedagogy of the program with students for the purpose of renewal, upgrading, improvement, and better alignment and assessment.<br />https://fabricationnation.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/abcs-of-d-educations-future/Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-87151962662627275912015-01-05T12:25:57.918-05:002015-01-05T12:25:57.918-05:00Thank you for the comment :-) At the moment I am ...Thank you for the comment :-) At the moment I am looking forward to starting EDDE 802 next week. Dissertation is a bit down the road, but I might do some work toward it this coming summer (get the lay of the land). I hope that people start changing their mind about such artificial distinctions between doctorates because it does no one any good to maintain these distinctions, neither the EdDs nor the PhDs. :)Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-14620087210734512032015-01-04T22:35:21.641-05:002015-01-04T22:35:21.641-05:00Thank you AK for this post. I proudly have an EdD ...Thank you AK for this post. I proudly have an EdD (in the first class of AU) and although I believe that in time people will see beyond the preconceived notions of my doctorate this stills causes questions and may leave behind incorrect assumptions about my credential. I do not see it as a professional doctorate especially when i consider the research, rigour, and the "creation and dissemination of new knowledge in [my] discipline" that was very much a part of the process of obtaining my degree. I have much to do with this degree to be seen and heard but I know what I did to achieve it and I cannot care what others think. I know of a great number of highly respected academics with the same credential.<br />I look forward to hearing that you have successfully been awarded this fine credential.Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.com