The Ph. D. in Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology is a research degree. It is designed to develop the candidate’s competencies to design, conduct and report original theoretical and applied research in learning and human performance technologies. A comprehensive content foundation in theory and research is strengthened through the requirement of an interdisciplinary support area. The Program of Studies and the dissertation reflect an emphasis on theoretical concepts, inquiry skills, and original research.
The Program of Studies and the Dissertation shall reflect greater emphasis on theoretical concepts, inquiry skills, and original research.
Doctoral study is intended to be a stimulating and demanding intellectual experience. Emphasis is placed upon excellence of intellectual, analytical, and conceptual achievements applied effectively to professional situations. Graduates are expected to become leaders in the education and training fields through the application of research, knowledge, and critical thinking skills.
The Doctorate is a degree representing broad scholarly attainments, a deep grasp of a field of study and expertise in the conceiving, conducting and reporting of individual research. As such, its attainment is no mere matter of meeting requirements. Thus, the requirements described in this document should be viewed only as a minimal formal context in which the student is expected to grow to the professional stature denoted by the Doctoral Degree.
It is in this sense that the formal requirements are summarized in terms of: course work, work done in residence, inquiry skills requirement*, the Doctoral Comprehensive Examination, the Application for and Admission to Candidacy, the Dissertation, the Final Examination for the Doctorate, and the time limitations.
The Doctorate usually requires at least three years of intensive course work and research beyond the Master's Degree. (A Master's Degree is a pre-requisite to admission to the Doctoral Program in OLIT.)
All Doctoral applicants entering the OLIT Program are required to meet three pre-requisites: OLIT 501 Instructional Design, OLIT 561: The Adult Learner, and EDPY 500: Survey of Research Methods in Education. These prerequisites must be satisfied prior to the mid-point of the Program of Studies.
Eighteen hours may be transferred to the doctoral program from the student’s master’s degree from an accredited graduate school, provided that:
The dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must demonstrate both ability to do independent research and competence in scholarly exposition. It should present original investigation, at an advanced level, of a significant problem and should provide the basis for a publishable contribution to the research literature.
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