General Information
Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) Ph.D. Program
Mission
The Ph.D. program in Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) prepares individuals to engage in advanced scholarly inquiry related to the design, development, and evaluation of effective interactive learning environments. The program is intentionally residential in nature, emphasizing mentoring in advanced research and development processes and working closely with faculty members and other graduate students. The need for full time Ph.D. study focused on research is discussed in an article titled “Reclaiming Education’s Doctorates: A Critique and a Proposal” by Lee S. Shulman, Chris M. Golde, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, and Kristen J. Garabedian published in the April 2006 issue of Educational Researcher: http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/
Educational_Researcher/3503/3592-03_Shulman_RN_C.pdf
Objectives
The program enables students to produce new knowledge, generate solutions to problems, and disseminate information through teaching, research, and publishing in the professional literature. The mission of the LDT Ph.D. program is to prepare the next generation of scholars who will lead fields such as Educational Technology and the Learning Sciences. We seek doctoral students who wish to pursue a lifetime of scholarship and innovation in these exciting fields. We seek scholars who are committed to research and development focused on enhancing actual human conditions with respect to teaching, learning, and performance. For the most part, our research agenda is designed to solve real world problems while also contributing to the theoretical foundations needed for future innovations.
Employment Opportunities
Career opportunities include teaching in higher education, K-12 instruction, instructional design consulting, and working in business, industry, government, or military training. Students may also seek Georgia certification at the S-7 level. For example, many of our graduates have assumed leadership positions at premiere research universities in the USA such as Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Virginia Tech, University of Illinois, and Utah State University as well as leading institutions of higher education in countries such as Brazil, Canada, China, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, and Taiwan.
Application Deadlines
The department only reviews application twice a year for possible admission to the Ph.D. program in the Fall (August) semester. The deadline for the first review next year is December 1 and the deadline for the second review is March 1. If at all possible, the department recommends that candidates submit their applications in time for the first review. Our doctoral program is quite competitive and we tend to get far more applications than we are able to accept.
Financial Support
Although it is difficult to do, the faculty members involved in the LDT Ph.D. program strive to provide a graduate assistantship or fellowship for every doctoral student we accept, and we have been successful in this endeavor over the past 15 years thanks to the efforts of our faculty members and other doctoral students to attract grants. The commitment to providing support for our accepted students is one of the reasons why admission to our program is quite competitive. We use a cohort model for doctoral admissions with all new students starting in the fall semester (August) of any given academic year (August through May). Typically, the cohort size is 8– 10 students. This represents an approximately 20% acceptance rate. Assistantships include a full tuition waiver as well as a living stipend and health insurance. We have graduate student housing within walking distance of Aderhold Hall where our program is located.
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