MEd and / or EdD programs

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  1. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator

    What online school, besides NCU, offers inexpensive 100% DL MEd and / or EdD programs?

    I was looking at Valdosta State University's EdS and I know Valdosta is mostly known as a B&M school.
     
  2. DesElms

    DesElms New Member

    This search string, when copied-and-pasted into the Google search box, should help get you started:
    • +"master of education" OR "doctor of education" +"distance learning" OR "distance education" OR online site:.edu
    Don't type it or you might get spacing or capitalization wrong. Just click-and-drag the mouse until it's highlighted, then press Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard; then click your mouse once in the Google search box; then press Ctrl-V to paste it therein; then press the [Enter] key.

    The search results should at least give you something to do 'til others chime-in with specific programs they know of.

    If you find anything you like, remember to use the two links that I provide in my signature to look-up the programs/institutions and make sure they're regionally accredited (or at least nationally- or specialized/profesionally-accredited).
     
  3. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    You can do what Gregg just suggested by simply clicking here. :)

    -=Steve=-
     
  4. mcdirector

    mcdirector New Member

    University of Illinois at Springfield has a 100% online MEd that is reasonably priced.
     
  5. DesElms

    DesElms New Member

    But then no one learns anything about how to construct more useful and refined Google search strings... not that that's DI's job, I suppose.

    Also, just so everyone knows... Google doesn't always respond well to being linked-to using finished search URLs. I mean, it mostly works... like it did this time with the link Steve provided (using the TinyURL service). But every now and then -- more often, actually, than maybe most people realize -- Google will, when linked-to as Steve has done here, just display the front page, with an empty search box... thereby forcing the user to either type-in or copy-and-paste-in the search string anyway.

    I got bit by that quite a few times a while back when I was putting finished Google search results page URLs into posts here, like Steve just did, and people PMed or emailed me and told me my link didn't work. Then I'd go back to the post and test it and, sure enough, it just took me to the Google front page. But, then, if I copied and pasted the linked-to URL directly into the "Address:" field of the browser window in which the aforementioned Google front page was displaying, and then pressed the [Enter] key, it worked. Go figure!

    Then I did some experimenting and thought, for a while, there, that it had something to do with whether the finished search results page URL in question was arrived at by typing-in the search string and then hitting the [Enter] key, or by typing it in and then clicking on the "Google Search" button. The resulting URLs are different. In addition to differences in certain characters throughout the two URL types, the one which results from clicking on the "Google Search" button has
    • &btnG=Google+Search
    appended to its end. But after several experiments over time, I realized that that probably wasn't it... though I still suspect there's a connection.

    So... anyway... I finally just gave up on trying to link to finished Google search results pages from DI posts. In addition to hoping that showing the search strings here will help people learn how to create such strings themselves, I also want to ensure that whatever I instruct them to do will actually work.
     
  6. Anthony Pina

    Anthony Pina Active Member

    The most reasonably priced doctorates in education are probably the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of South Africa (UNISA). Most of the other DL doctorates are offered by either private (e.g. Nova Southeastern, Touro UI) or private for-profit (e.g. Capella, Walden, U. of Phoenix) institutions.
     
  7. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Gosh! Can't believe I missed this thread! Following are four threadlinks with lists of DL MEd programs by price category:
    Under $10,000 http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19428
    $10,000-$15,000 http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19430
    $15,000-$20,000 http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19509
    Over $20,000 http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19517
    And here is a threadlink in which I replied to a gent who wanted to know about computer and education related doctorates: http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19247

    I, of course, leave it to the reader to interpret which, if any, of the afore-listed programs qualifies as "inexpensive."
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Dec 22, 2005
  8. bing

    bing New Member

    Vivisimo and Webcrawler

    You might want to try Gregg's search string in www.vivisimo.com and www.webcrawler.com, too. Vivisimo will give you some hierarchical choices that may help drill down to what you are looking for.

    Bing


     

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