Ed.D. in Educational Technology
The University of Florida’s online Ed.D. in Educational Technology focuses on preparing teachers, administrators and other professionals to lead Educational Technology efforts in a variety of contexts. Students who earn this degree will be well suited to work in K-12 schools, K-12 administrative positions, virtual schools, community colleges, teaching colleges, educational consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and a variety of other venues. The program will NOT prepare students to become faculty in research-intensive universities.
Students entering the program must have a Masters degree in educational technology or a related field. Students entering with such a Master's degree will complete the degree in as early as 3 years, provided they meet yearly requirements. Masters students are eligible to transfer up to 36 hours; however, courses eligible for transfer must have been earned within the last 5 years. Students entering without a Masters degree in educational technology or a related field will complete the degree in as early as 4 years (including the prerequisite year), provided they meet yearly requirements (transfer credits will be evaluated individually).
The program is anchored by a series of educational technology and research courses that students take as a cohort and campus-based experiences at the University of Florida in Gainesville each of three summers.
Each student will also specialize in at least one cognate area including, but not limited to,
- Online teaching and learning/virtual schooling
- Multimedia production for 21st century learning
- K-12 technology integration & leadership
Qualifying exams are required for each student to advance to doctoral candidacy. Qualifying exams require each student to design, develop and present in a public forum a series of job-embedded tasks in a manner commensurate with doctoral level work. These will be structured to align with each student’s cognate area and eventual dissertation topic.
Each student will culminate his/her experience with a dissertation defense presented in a public forum.
