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Program Overview
$47,500 Total Tuition
as few as 36 months Program Duration
60 Credit Hours
Rise as a subject matter expert in the ground-breaking field of cyber learning when you earn the online Doctor of Education in Leadership and Innovation – Digital Instruction degree. 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 Leadership and Innovation – Digital Instruction 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 an integrated dissertation beginning near the end of your first year that can be defended 100% online. Taught by respected faculty with extensive experience in their fields, this versatile online Ed.D. 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 Leadership and Innovation – Digital 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
- Participate in managing and leading private corporations, public organizations, educational institutions and systems, and nonprofit agencies
- Develop leadership and innovation 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
Career Opportunities
- Instructional Designer
- Instructional Leader
- Distance Learning Instructor
- Manager
- Teacher
- Professor
The Doctor of Education in Leadership and Innovation program is ranked #4 in the "Top Doctorate in Leadership Online Programs" by The Top Business Schools and Degrees website (2018).
[close-]Tuition
The Doctor of Education in Leadership and Innovation – Digital Instruction online degree program at St. Thomas University is priced with the working student in mind, offering pay-by-the course tuition. We are committed to offering a quality private school education at public university prices. The following is the tuition breakdown for students pursuing the Ed.D. in Leadership and Innovation – Digital Instruction online. E-tuition is the same for both in-state and out-of-state online students. The program consists of 20 courses for a total of 60 credit hours. Each course has a technology fee as noted in the below table. The total tuition shown is inclusive of the fees.
| Tuition Per Credit Hour | Technology Fee Per Course | Total Program Tuition (including fees) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $755 | $100 | $47,500 |
Calendar
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 Doctor of Education in Leadership and Innovation – Digital Instruction online program.
| Session | Program Start Date | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 1 2020 | 08/22/20 | 08/10/20 | 08/14/20 | 08/16/20 | 08/17/20 |
| Fall 2 2020 | 10/17/20 | 10/05/20 | 10/09/20 | 10/11/20 | 10/12/20 |
| Spring 1 2021 | 01/09/21 | 12/28/20 | 01/01/21 | 01/03/21 | 01/04/21 |
| Spring 2 2021 | 03/13/21 | 03/01/21 | 03/05/21 | 03/07/21 | 03/08/21 |
| Summer 1 2021 | 05/15/21 | 05/03/21 | 05/07/21 | 05/09/21 | 05/10/21 |
| Summer 2 2021 | 07/03/21 | 06/21/21 | 06/25/21 | 06/27/21 | 06/28/21 |
Admissions
The admission process is the first step toward earning your online degree. Familiarize yourself with the requirements for the Doctor of Education in Leadership and Innovation – Digital Instruction online program, along with information on required documentation.
- Completed application for admission
- An earned master's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent and a grade point average of at least 2.6 (on a 4.0 scale) in all graduate work attempted (An applicant with a second master's or other advanced credential may petition the Program Team to have up to 6 courses or 18 credits transferred into the program. Those courses can only be transferred if they closely relate to those courses that they are replacing. The applicant must request the transfer of these additional courses as part of the initial interview with the Program Team.)
- Official transcripts of all prior graduate and undergraduate academic work. All applicants are required to submit transcripts from each post-secondary institution attended.
All documents should be sent to:
St. Thomas University, Office of Admissions16401 NW 37th Ave., Mimi Dooner Hall
Miami Gardens, FL 33054-6459
Transcripts delivered via digital transcript services EScrip and Parchment should be emailed to admissions@stu.edu.
[close-]Courses
To complete the Ed.D. in Leadership and Innovation – Digital Instruction 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.
ELI 801: Theory and Practice of Leadership
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
In this course, students will analyze the theory and practice of leadership and address motivation, sources of power, change processes and group dynamics. The characteristics and abilities associated with effective leadership will also be examined. Students will also explore the diversity of leadership theory and the impact of diversity on leadership.
ELI 804: Management of Crisis and Change
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Drawing on the five-phase model of the change process, this course uses real-world examples to examine the design, development, implementation and maintenance of educational innovations and improvements.
ELI 805: Strategic Leadership and Global Change
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course will prepare students to restructure and create empowering environments in their organizations. A body of research will be reviewed to provide an empirical framework that can be used to draw conclusions about strategic management and leadership in organizations striving to provide an empowering environment in the 21st Century.
ELI 806: Accountability in Leadership
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course is a study of the significant issues embedded in questions of accountability in leadership that begin with treatment of personal ethical development, moving to the practice of leadership management, analyzing the issues of pluralism, and concluding with an ethical discussion of decision making in these areas.
ELI 807: Ethics and Governance
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
The course is concerned with issues of ownership, control, ethics and accountability. It employs a stakeholder framework, emphasizing business' social and ethical responsibilities to both external and internal stakeholder groups. It also illustrates how ethical or moral considerations are included in the public issues facing organizations and the decision-making process of leaders.
ELI 814: Cross-Cultural Relations
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course presents an analysis of major contemporary social problems with attention given to controversial issues common in the workplace. Included in this course is an emphasis on theory, structure, and the effective practice of diversity as they relate to directors, managers, employees, students and faculty of academic organizations who are involved in a diversified workforce.
ELI 815: Public Policy Leadership
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course examines various approaches to developing and managing public policy. It is intended primarily for leaders who are department heads, policy developers, managers and executive officers in organizations, higher education, schools, school boards, governments and statutory agencies responsible for formulating or managing policies.
ELI 817: Managing Social Media in Organizations
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Social media for all organizations consist of a range of web-based applications that allow anyone to disseminate information to online communities. The focus of this course is for students to assess the role of a social media presence in creating an online social or extended community for an organization's current clients, employees and friends; promote an awareness of the organization among potential clients; expand the mission of the organization; and build an identity and brand image.
EDT 610: IDT Theories and Models
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on pedagogical theories as they relate to instructional design, and on existing and emerging models of instructional design. Topics include major schools of thought on how people learn, instructional and learning theories, and instructional design models and principles.
EDT 630: Multimedia Design and Development
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to develop students' technical skills in multimedia design and development for instructional purposes. Topics include visual design principles, desktop publishing, digital graphics, and digital audio and video.
EDT 800: Foundations of Digital Education and Instruction
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course serves as an overview and focuses on providing students with an introduction to the emerging technologies and pedagogically relevant resources to promote student learning in all organizations. Students will be introduced to the ideas, research, and terminology associated with learning and giving instruction in current complex digital environments whilst also engaging in trying to understand the needs of future digital learning environments as technologies continue to develop as online learning evolves.
EDT 801: Digital Literacy & Citizen
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course challenges students to define digital literacy and digital citizenship in a way that helps them to lead organizations of digital instructors and educators to provide excellence in instructional practice, collaborative inclusion, and safe learning environments for all students. This course also challenges students to think beyond a definition to the practical application of digital literacies and citizenship to organizations/institutions and all of their coordinated leaders, employees, students, and other stakeholders.
ELI 813: Leading a Learning Organization
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Organizations are systems within which humans are continually developing structures that influence their action. This course helps students become designers and members of organizations which engage in practices that encourage organizational learning. Students will examine ways that organizations create learning cultures as well as leadership strategies that foster growth, creativity and risk-taking while managing innovation, change and future planning.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on applying the principles, practices, and strategies for conducting research in the social sciences, particularly dealing with the interface of the human dimension in the social and behavioral sciences.
RES 820: Quantitative Research
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course examines theory and practice in the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of experimental, quasi-experimental and survey procedures for program research and evaluation. Development of basic skills required in the understanding, planning and executing of a research study will be covered.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course explores the methods and procedures used in qualitative research. Topics include the philosophical basis for the method; the conceptualization of research questions; the selection of appropriate research designs; data collection; manual and computerized data analysis; and the drawing of inferences.
DIS 900: Doctoral Research Proposal
Duration: 16 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Students will develop a dissertation or action research plan in collaboration with their chair. This course and the accompanying content create the trajectory for the culminating research experiences within the Ed.D. in Leadership and Innovation program. Additionally, students will develop an introduction to the problem, background, context, and abbreviated theoretical framework, purpose of the study, research objectives/hypotheses, significance of the study, investigator scope, definition of term, and an organizational timeline for completion of the dissertation/action research process.
Duration: 16 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Students will submit their IRB application and develop their literature review, including theoretical and/or conceptual frameworks. Additionally, students will develop their research methodology/design, including research purpose, objectives/hypotheses, data treatment, data collection, and data analysis.
Duration: 16 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Students will collect and analyze data associated with research in collaboration with the chair and compose the findings and results section of the dissertation/action research process.
DIS 903: Doctoral Research III
Duration: 16 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Students will compose the resulting implications, recommendations, and study limitations. Additionally, the student will prepare a formal presentation for the chair and committee members in hopes of successfully defending their dissertation or implementing the results from their action research process.
