Valdosta State EdD in Leadership

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  1. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Then you have the "not a real doctor" crowd. I'm sick of those people.
     
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  2. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    There's little explicit "philosophy" content in many PhDs. There's arguably little explicit "science" content in some MSes, and so on. For a set of traditional degree titles, everyone's used to this. Maybe the EdD is moving into that set.
     
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  3. Acolyte

    Acolyte Well-Known Member

    Well, like Steve said - "A doctorate in Leadership" sums it up nicely - and outside of this forum, I've never encountered folks that split hairs so often over these kinds of distinctions. I suppose in academic circles or maybe some specialized corporate positions these things may matter more.
     
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  4. Pugbelly2

    Pugbelly2 Active Member

    I agree. 100%.
     
  5. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    My guess is that it has to do with accreditation and the school's approved scope. It's a LOT easier to get approved for an additional specilization for a degree already approved. It is a LOT harder to get a new degree approved. Thus, getting a leadership specialization for the EdD had to be easier than getting a separate leadership degree approved. And it would take a lot more infrastructure--faculty, degree content, etc.
     
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  6. Pugbelly2

    Pugbelly2 Active Member

    I agree with you, but that sounds like laziness to me. It's a lot easier to use AI to complete assignments, and a lot faster, but I don't do it. I have always said if something is worth doing, then it's worth doing right and at the highest possible level your abilities allow. The only exception would be those things that are totally recreational, but for me, very few things are totally recreational.

    In the end I don't really care whether a given institution calls a degree this, that, or the other. It just seems lazy to create a pretty impressive DBA or PhD program, then call it an Ed.D because it's easier to roll out that way.
     
  7. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Regarding AI, my guest on my podcast today and I discussed the challenges of assessing distance students' work in the age of AI. We'll have to embrace the reality of AI (instead of miserably trying to detect its use) and evaluate what students DO with their AI generated information. In short, writing descriptively--a skill AI has developed--isn't enough. We're at the beginning of this issue, not the end.

    As for that degree and accredition, let me be clear: I'm not saying categorically that's the reason for the EdD. I'm just using what I know about accreditation as a context for that possibility. I have no information or answer.
     
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  8. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    I suppose we don't know for sure, but I think you're right because your explanation takes everything into account.
     

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