Online PhD Degrees in Educational Leadership

Doctor of Education - Higher Education & Adult Learning

Actively engaging adult learners requires a unique set of skills and a broad understanding of adult development. The Higher Education and Adult Learning specialization was created specifically to improve the competencies of adult educators. Whether you teach at a community college or provide training for adults in a school district or corporate setting, this specialization has the versatility to meet your professional goals.

This curriculum is uniquely designed to teach research skills within content–specific courses, allowing you to immediately apply knowledge to practice. The combination of core content, research skills, and your final doctoral study project leads to your development as an innovative and critical thinker who is prepared to examine, experiment, and reflect on practices that empower adults to be lifelong learners.

Offered by: Walden University

Ed.D. Adult and Continuing Education

The NLU doctoral program in Adult Education (ADED), offered within the College of Arts and Sciences, provides a forum for critical reflection on adult education practice. The future of our economy, and of democracy itself, rests on an informed and critical populace. Weekend and residential sessions, together with web-based support provide the resources for educators of adults-teachers, organizers, trainers and "grass-roots" activists who, through their work, seek to contribute to the emergence of a productive society grounded in equity and justice. Our curriculum is based on the role adult education plays as a means of fostering informed decision-making and democracy-building in the work place or in the community. You will help shape that curriculum through the practice of student governance; collegial, critical conversations with faculty and fellow students. The entire program, including classwork and dissertation, can be completed in three years.

Offered by: National Louis University

Other Education PhD

• PhD in Computer Teacher
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• PhD in Educational Leadership
• PhD in Elementary Teaching
• PhD in Middle School Teaching
• PhD in Paraprofessional Education
• PhD in Secondary Education
• PhD in Special Education Teaching
• PhD in Teacher Assistant
• PhD in Teacher Education
• PhD in Teaching

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