Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning Online
Deepen your understanding of up-to-date best practices in online/digital learning environments with the Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning online program. Delivered 100% online, this Ed.D. program offers you the tools and qualifications you need to stand out as a specialized digital practitioner and instructor.
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Program Overview
Learn about our 100% online Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning
Rise as a subject matter expert in the ground-breaking field of cyber learning when you earn the online Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning degree from St. Thomas University. With a keen focus on shaping quality leaders in digital education landscapes, this highly specialized online Ed.D. prepares you to authentically engage with pupils across multiple virtual platforms.
In the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning online program, you will strengthen your pedagogy techniques to include an array of technological instructional resources, discover new ways to promote technical skills that can be transferred to real-world settings, and learn to embed safety precautions when teaching students how to collaborate in digital learning environments. Plus, you will gain top-level leadership styles that resonate across wide audiences.
As a doctoral student, you will benefit from a dissertation that can be defended 100% online. Taught by respected faculty with extensive experience in their fields, this versatile online Ed.D. in digital instruction also offers reasonable admission requirements that allow applicants with a second master's degree to transfer in up to 18 credit hours (6 courses). No education degree or teaching background is required.
In the Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning Instruction online program, you will learn to:
- Incorporate best practices related to e-learning instruction
- Gain a solid understanding of emerging and pedagogically relevant resources
- Develop comprehensive and innovative multimedia programming and curricula
- Discover supportive ways to help students grow as digital citizens
- Respond to the changing needs of diverse organizations
- Develop educational leadership skills and effective team-oriented approaches for teaching and learning to maximize the performance achievements of all learners
- Demonstrate scholarly behaviors such as reflection and problem-solving with skills for designing, critiquing, and implementing research relevant to effective practice
- Incorporate best practices related to e-learning instruction
- Gain a solid understanding of emerging and pedagogically relevant resources
- Develop comprehensive and innovative multimedia programming and curricula
- Discover supportive ways to help students grow as digital citizens
- Respond to the changing needs of diverse organizations
- Develop educational leadership skills and effective team-oriented approaches for teaching and learning to maximize the performance achievements of all learners
- Demonstrate scholarly behaviors such as reflection and problem-solving with skills for designing, critiquing, and implementing research relevant to effective practice
Digital Instruction Career Opportunities
- Instructional Designer
- Instructional Leader
- Distance Learning Instructor
- Manager
- Teacher
- Professor
- Instructional Designer
- Instructional Leader
- Distance Learning Instructor
- Manager
- Teacher
- Professor
Tuition
STU’s budget-friendly tuition can be paid as you go
St. Thomas University prides itself on offering a quality private school education at public university prices. Our pay-by-the course tuition for the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning online degree program is affordable and priced with the working student in mind. Financial aid may also be available for students who qualify. The e-tuition is the same for both in-state and out-of-state online students. Each course has a technology fee as noted in the below table. The total tuition shown is inclusive of the fees.
Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
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Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction & Distance Learning | $800 | $2,500 | $50,000 |
Tuition breakdown:
Calendar
Our application deadlines and course schedules
At St. Thomas University, we offer multiple start dates to accommodate busy schedules. Here you can find deadlines for your application, documents, and tuition payment for the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning online program.
Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Class End Date | Term Length |
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Fall 2 | 10/12/24 | 9/26/24 | 9/30/24 | 10/4/24 | 10/9/24 | 12/6/24 | 7 weeks |
Spring 1 | 1/11/25 | 12/20/24 | 12/27/24 | 1/3/25 | 1/15/25 | 3/7/25 | 7 weeks |
Spring 2 | 3/15/25 | 2/21/25 | 2/28/25 | 3/7/25 | 3/19/25 | 5/9/25 | 7 weeks |
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Admissions
Here is the admission criteria for the online Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning program
The admission process is the first step toward earning your online degree. Familiarize yourself with the requirements for the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning online program, along with information on required documentation.
Admission Requirements:
- Free Application
- 3.0 GPA or higher
- Master’s degree
Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning Admission Requirements
The following are required for admission to the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning online program:
- Completed free application
- Master’s degree transcript (Unofficial transcripts are accepted)
- 3.0 GPA or higher
Official transcripts can be sent to St. Thomas University through Parchment and National Student Clearinghouse. Unofficial transcripts and other documents can be uploaded via your Admissions Portal or emailed to [email protected].
Courses
Here are the topics you’ll study in our online Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning program
To complete the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership – Digital Instruction and Distance Learning online program, students must complete 24 credit hours of core courses, 15 credit hours of specialization courses, 9 credit hours of research courses and 12 credit hours of dissertation courses for a total of 60 credit hours. All program requirements, including the successful defense of your dissertation, must be completed within seven years of first enrollment in the doctoral program.
Courses in this program are seven weeks long. Courses during the two summer terms, however, are six weeks long.
Learning Outcomes
- Research and analyze current and emerging issues and trends in education to develop an innovative practice that addresses them.
- Reflect on personal beliefs and professional practice regarding select issues and trends.
Learning Outcomes
- Assess prevalent leadership theories and evaluate the importance of different leadership approaches.
- Evaluate the impact of various leadership styles in change management situations.
- Analyze the role of leadership in organizations with diverse environments.
- Address leadership-related questions by combining multiple peer-reviewed sources that follow scholarly guidelines.
Learning Outcomes
- Assess the role of ethics and governance in education organizations.
- Articulate the importance of accountability in leadership when addressing organization governance in educational organizations.
- Improve the workplace for leaders and followers using critical analysis to describe the values and ethics of leaders and educational organizations.
- Demonstrate the mechanisms of governance within education organizations and understand the key roles and relationships among stakeholders.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify areas of organizational crisis and develop skills for managing them.
- Understand and articulate the importance of management crisis and change in organizations.
- Define and evaluate the role of ethics in crisis management.
- Author scholarly papers following the APA format.
Learning Outcomes
- Review strategic leadership and change in both a domestic and international environment.
- Assess the complexity of global strategic management systems and address the needs of diverse stakeholders in domestic and international settings.
Learning Outcomes
- Manage and communicate essential information and engage employees and clients in areas of mutual interest through cross cultural relations.
- Evaluate guidelines within organizations that promote, and hire based on gender, ethnicity, and religion.
- Assess the potential impact of social platforms and sites, social networking, content sharing and web presence on managing an organization invested in maintaining a diversified workforce.
- Analyze the effects of cross-cultural relations within professional organizations and develop best practices on how to navigate them.
- Demonstrate how to choose and implement the optimal "Cross Cultural or Diversity" program when managing a diverse workforce.
- Demonstrate knowledge of cross-cultural relations in verbal and written formats at an advanced college-level.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the policy making process and its role in the policy cycle.
- Review the methods for identifying, creating, and managing policy.
- Analyze key tools that policy makers use to engage the public and resolve public problems and issues.
- Develop research questions with a purpose statement and problem statement in a research project.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand key terms and issues in social media and how they relate to and support an organization's mission.
- Assess the viability of social media tools in relation to an organization's desired outcomes and goals.
- Create an effective social media plan that incorporates all desired social media platforms and supports the organization harmoniously.
- Pinpoint, explain, and implement social media resources available for professional interested in designing comprehensive guidelines for implementation of social media networking tools across platforms and institutions.
Learning Outcomes
- Support the diverse needs of learners by developing learning opportunities that apply technology-enhanced instructional strategies.
- Apply current research on teaching and learning with technology when planning learning environments and experiences.
- Identify, locate, and evaluate technology resources for their accuracy and suitability.
- Manage technology resources for learning activities.
- Create strategies to manage student learning in a technology-enhanced environment.
Learning Outcomes
- Design and create visually appealing and instructionally sound multimedia education content.
- Develop, apply, and assess specified educational goals for several types of learners.
- Find, choose, and evaluate visual and multimedia content to use in instructional materials.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the levels of digital literacy skills and the language used in technology implementation in education.
- Assess research regarding technical and pedagogical aspects of various technologies.
- Understand the capabilities and limitations of technology in education and apply it to current educational contexts.
- Ascertain the effects of new developments in educational technology on the key elements that make up the study of digital learning and instruction.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop strategies for improving digital literacy and citizenship.
- Create policies that measure and improve the digital literacy and citizenship improvement.
- Help teachers, instructors, students, families, and other stakeholders evaluate and improve their own digital literacy and digital citizenship.
- Compile research and other scholarship to improve digital literacy and citizenship and prepare educators and instructors for emerging technologies and digital environments.
Learning Outcomes
- Create an appropriate researchable problem for a dissertation.
- Assess academic literature to support researchable problems.
- Distinguish characteristics of qualitative and quantitative research approaches.
- Employ research approaches to study an appropriate problem of practice.
- Conduct research following the guidelines of ethical, legal, and professional requirements.
Learning Outcomes
- Explore quantitative research and statistical concepts with emphasis on the writing process.
- Review and assess academic literature for the production of literature reviews.
- Study the use of theories in building research methodologies.
- Identify the components of a great introduction and purpose statement and how they function in research and research reporting.
- Assess research questions and hypothesis for correct use and applicability to the research proposed.
- Investigate and appraise a quantitative study that uses of the following designs: Survey Research, Correlational Research, Experimental Research, and Causal-Comparative Research.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze qualitative research, its underlying assumptions, interpretive frameworks, and ethical considerations and evaluate the quality, rigor, and trustworthiness of it.
- Utilize qualitative research designs and data collection practices to student-identified research problems.
- Collect qualitative data and apply qualitative data analysis strategies to it.
Learning Outcomes
- Prepare for the doctoral dissertation by honing writing and critical thinking skills.
- Assess the preliminary steps for authoring a publishable research paper.
- Document ability to independently write the Proposed Title, Topic Statement, Background, Context, and Theoretical Framework, Problem Statement, Purpose of Study, Research Questions, and Nature of the Study.
- Develop a relationship with a dissertation chair.
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