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Opening the Online Door to Academe
A Practical Guide to Doctoral Study Online and Beyond
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Our technologically advanced society has generated many rapid changes in higher education in recent years. These changes have been recently exacerbated by the global pandemic COVID-19. Educational institutions around the world have adapted to offering their programs by distance, usually via online computer platforms. While many levels of credentials already existed successfully online, the elite and difficult doctoral degree has remained largely traditional, a bricks-and-mortar program, requiring attendance and perhaps a major lifestyle transition for learners. COVID has changed and will continue to change that.
This book explores the world of online learning and online doctoral study post-COVID and in the future. From âshould I undertake this learning?â to how to choose a supervisor and manage the online research experience, using her years of experience and insight, the author has compiled a practical guide outlining not only how to successfully undertake online doctoral study but also how to wisely transfer that acquired online acumen beyond graduation, into the academic life. Newly-minted PhDs and EdDocs face a steep learning curve when entering the professorial life in the Ivory Tower of higher education. This down-to-earth, plain language, and often humorous text explores the pedagogical advantages of the online experience and their usefulness to the new academic hire. Current doctoral learners, both traditional and online, as those mulling future educational plans, and doctoral completers surveying higher education opportunities will benefit from the insight and advice in this very frank text.
This book explores the world of online learning and online doctoral study post-COVID and in the future. From âshould I undertake this learning?â to how to choose a supervisor and manage the online research experience, using her years of experience and insight, the author has compiled a practical guide outlining not only how to successfully undertake online doctoral study but also how to wisely transfer that acquired online acumen beyond graduation, into the academic life. Newly-minted PhDs and EdDocs face a steep learning curve when entering the professorial life in the Ivory Tower of higher education. This down-to-earth, plain language, and often humorous text explores the pedagogical advantages of the online experience and their usefulness to the new academic hire. Current doctoral learners, both traditional and online, as those mulling future educational plans, and doctoral completers surveying higher education opportunities will benefit from the insight and advice in this very frank text.
Dianne Conrad, PhD, is a long-time adult and distance educator, researcher, and writer. Her previous books include Assessment Strategies for Online Learning (2018) and Open(ing) Education: Theory and Practice (Brill, 2020).
Preface
1 Introduction: A Foundational Landscape of Academia and Online Doctoral Learning
â1 The Importance of Language
â2 My Own Relationship to Doctoral Studies and Online Learning
â3 A Broader Context
â4 Final Words
2 Can I? Should I? Making the Big Commitment
â1 Is There a Case for NOT Entering a Doctoral Program?
â2 Some Anecdotal Observations from a Long-Time Academic and Lifelong Learner
â3 Who Engages in Online Doctoral Study?
â4 How Does an Online Degree Differ from a Face-to-Face Degree in These Respects?
â5 What the Learners Say
â6 Whatâs the Big Deal?
â7 Burning Questions Posed by Doctoral Students as They Consider Entering an Online Program
â8 Are You Ready for Online? A Case for Online Readiness
â9 Final Words
3 Program Orientation and Residency: What and Why?
â1 Program Models and Their Relationship to Orientation
â2 The Cohort Model and Its Relationship to Orientation
â3 An Example of an On-site Orientation
â4 What an Orientation Canât Do
â5 Final Words
4 Learning Online in a Doctoral Program
â1 The Language of Distance Education (DE)
â2 A Short History of Distance Education
â3 Adult Education, Philosophy, and the Beauty of Online Learning
â4 Your Presentation of Yourself
â5 Synchronous Presentations
â6 Asynchronous Presentations
â7 Assessment of Online Presence
â8 Assessment of Learning Activities
â9 Final Words
5 Your Dissertation: The Tour de Force
â1 The Nature of Research
â2 How Does the Online Doctoral Dissertation Differ from the Traditional Dissertation?
â3 Supervisors: Choosing Them, Co-existing, Liking, and Communicating with Them, Being Mentored
â4 Shop for Your Supervisor from the Get-Go
â5 Getting along with Your Supervisor
â6 Enjoying a Mentored Relationship with Your Supervisor
â7 Types of Supervisor Relationships: Good, Bad, and Ugly?
â8 When the Supervisory Relationship Breaks Down
â9 How to Start: Tackling the Dissertation
â10 The Long and Winding Road: Writing the Dissertation as an Online Learner
â11 Choosing and Using Your Research Sources
â12 The Supervisory Dissertation Committee
â13 Presenting and Defending Your Dissertation
â14 Publishing Your Dissertation: A New Adventure
â15 Final Words
6 Stayinâ Alive: Your Emotional Health and Wellness
â1 The Hidden and Nuanced Stressors
â2 Staying Alive and Well
â3 Forming Community Online
â4 Helping Learners Help Themselves
â5 Helping Hands from Faculty and Administrative Personnel
â6 Things Online Teaching Faculty Can Do to Help
â7 Things Administrative Personnel Can Do to Help You
â8 Final Words
7 Hoops, Gates, Joining the Club, and Then What?
â1 Academic Excellence
â2 Joining the Club
â3 Respect the Club
â4 And Then What to Do â¦
8 From the Trenches: Studentsâ Reflections on Their Online Doctoral Programs
â1 Program Shape and Highlights
â2 Other Voices
â3 Final Words
9 The Next Step: Finding Your Fit in Academe
â1 The Professoriate
â2 Focus on Teaching: The Teacher
â3 Focus on Administration: The Administrator
â4 Focus on Institutional Loyalty: The Soldier/Stalwart
â5 Focus on Collegial and Social Connection: The Networker
â6 Focus on Institutional Politics: The Politico
â7 Focus on Recognition: The Star
â8 Focus on Intellectual Productivity: The Dogged Scholar
â9 Final Thoughts
10 âThe World Is Too Much with Usâ: COVID-19 Changes the Game
â1 Adjustment of Space and Place
â2 Adjustment to Social and Personal Anxiety
â3 Adjustment to Post-Pandemic Society
â4 The Path Forward: The Digital Scholar
â5 But Wait, Thereâs More
â6 Final Words
11 Concluding Thoughts and Some Seasoned Advice
â1 What Next? Advice for the New Dr
â2 What Next? Advice for the New Academic Hire
References
Index
1 Introduction: A Foundational Landscape of Academia and Online Doctoral Learning
â1 The Importance of Language
â2 My Own Relationship to Doctoral Studies and Online Learning
â3 A Broader Context
â4 Final Words
2 Can I? Should I? Making the Big Commitment
â1 Is There a Case for NOT Entering a Doctoral Program?
â2 Some Anecdotal Observations from a Long-Time Academic and Lifelong Learner
â3 Who Engages in Online Doctoral Study?
â4 How Does an Online Degree Differ from a Face-to-Face Degree in These Respects?
â5 What the Learners Say
â6 Whatâs the Big Deal?
â7 Burning Questions Posed by Doctoral Students as They Consider Entering an Online Program
â8 Are You Ready for Online? A Case for Online Readiness
â9 Final Words
3 Program Orientation and Residency: What and Why?
â1 Program Models and Their Relationship to Orientation
â2 The Cohort Model and Its Relationship to Orientation
â3 An Example of an On-site Orientation
â4 What an Orientation Canât Do
â5 Final Words
4 Learning Online in a Doctoral Program
â1 The Language of Distance Education (DE)
â2 A Short History of Distance Education
â3 Adult Education, Philosophy, and the Beauty of Online Learning
â4 Your Presentation of Yourself
â5 Synchronous Presentations
â6 Asynchronous Presentations
â7 Assessment of Online Presence
â8 Assessment of Learning Activities
â9 Final Words
5 Your Dissertation: The Tour de Force
â1 The Nature of Research
â2 How Does the Online Doctoral Dissertation Differ from the Traditional Dissertation?
â3 Supervisors: Choosing Them, Co-existing, Liking, and Communicating with Them, Being Mentored
â4 Shop for Your Supervisor from the Get-Go
â5 Getting along with Your Supervisor
â6 Enjoying a Mentored Relationship with Your Supervisor
â7 Types of Supervisor Relationships: Good, Bad, and Ugly?
â8 When the Supervisory Relationship Breaks Down
â9 How to Start: Tackling the Dissertation
â10 The Long and Winding Road: Writing the Dissertation as an Online Learner
â11 Choosing and Using Your Research Sources
â12 The Supervisory Dissertation Committee
â13 Presenting and Defending Your Dissertation
â14 Publishing Your Dissertation: A New Adventure
â15 Final Words
6 Stayinâ Alive: Your Emotional Health and Wellness
â1 The Hidden and Nuanced Stressors
â2 Staying Alive and Well
â3 Forming Community Online
â4 Helping Learners Help Themselves
â5 Helping Hands from Faculty and Administrative Personnel
â6 Things Online Teaching Faculty Can Do to Help
â7 Things Administrative Personnel Can Do to Help You
â8 Final Words
7 Hoops, Gates, Joining the Club, and Then What?
â1 Academic Excellence
â2 Joining the Club
â3 Respect the Club
â4 And Then What to Do â¦
8 From the Trenches: Studentsâ Reflections on Their Online Doctoral Programs
â1 Program Shape and Highlights
â2 Other Voices
â3 Final Words
9 The Next Step: Finding Your Fit in Academe
â1 The Professoriate
â2 Focus on Teaching: The Teacher
â3 Focus on Administration: The Administrator
â4 Focus on Institutional Loyalty: The Soldier/Stalwart
â5 Focus on Collegial and Social Connection: The Networker
â6 Focus on Institutional Politics: The Politico
â7 Focus on Recognition: The Star
â8 Focus on Intellectual Productivity: The Dogged Scholar
â9 Final Thoughts
10 âThe World Is Too Much with Usâ: COVID-19 Changes the Game
â1 Adjustment of Space and Place
â2 Adjustment to Social and Personal Anxiety
â3 Adjustment to Post-Pandemic Society
â4 The Path Forward: The Digital Scholar
â5 But Wait, Thereâs More
â6 Final Words
11 Concluding Thoughts and Some Seasoned Advice
â1 What Next? Advice for the New Dr
â2 What Next? Advice for the New Academic Hire
References
Index
This text, with its frank and fresh information, will interest many levels of post-secondary educators, students, and administrators, especially those engaged in distance education policy, provision or studentship.