Open AccessAn Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals
Author(s) -
Tolulope Ajayi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of interdisciplinary studies in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2690-0408
pISSN - 2166-2681
DOI - 10.32674/jise.v9i1.1947
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , professional development , continuing education , medical education , online learning , continuing professional development , pedagogy , higher education , sociology , engineering ethics , psychology , political science , engineering , medicine , computer science , multimedia , artificial intelligence , law
An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals was written with the view of using new perspective in expanding the horizon of PhD students in higher education. The authors considered the development of online programs to meet the needs of the working professionals. This became necessary because the traditional PhD programs in education was not enough to meet the desires of the working professionals in combining the furthering of their education and carrying out applied research skills with continuing full-time employment. The authors presented their model that focused on an online professional doctorate program which combined theory research and practice.