Introducing the First Hybrid Doctoral Program in Educational Technology

Advancing Scholarship, Team Building, And Collaboration In A Hybrid Doctoral Program In Educational Leadership

“…This concept was exemplified by Hampton University's Educational Management Ph.D. program Cohort I members at the 2013 National Black Graduate Student Conference, by Cohort V members at the 2014 International Academic Conference in Orlando, Florida, and at the 6th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech University (Batts et al, 2013;Hampton University, 2014). Research endeavors produced by hybrid doctoral students possessing a broad range of professional and leadership experiences narrow the delta between theory and practice (Koehler et al, 2013). For this reason, opportunities to advance scholarship are critical to doctoral students' academic and professional development.…”

A Higher Education Leadership Distance Ph.D. Program: An Assessment Using Blocher’s Ecological Learning Theory

“…Some doctoral programs see this pool of students to be a new source of untapped revenue and seek to augment shrinking institutional resources (Rubin, 2013). In other cases, the faculty understand that the increased costs of education is requiring a shift in the paradigm of how students access doctoral studies, especially education, where most older students cannot afford to forgo full-time employment to engage in doctoral studies full-time (Koehler et al, 2013). Some also see the development of distance programs as a way to adapt to the reality that the proportion of traditional doctoral students is diminishing, and the number of non-traditional doctoral students is becoming more prominent in higher education (Singleton & Sessions, 2011).…”