Monica Washington conversation

• We want to somehow not accommodate what we originally said we would: a fully-online PhD program. That we would support them through a longer amount of time in a part-time PhD program

• We need to find ways to support those that we said we would (and we accepted anyone who would come)

• Dr. Deborah Moore Russo

• Course: introduction to doctoral studies

• A community of learners

• Research component is potentially a time for differentiation into EDD and PhD.

• Most PhD students don’t come in with research experience

• I’d like them to see research alongside faculty members.

• Life will happen while you’re a PhD student.

• Community of practice

• Learning Sciences concentration

• A concentration would be considered an advanced certificate.

  • online students have a really hard time

• Should we have more highly-structured PhD requirements?

• Should we push students into concentrations?

• Should we push a cohort model, with staged requirements?

• How much should methods be emphasized in LAI 615?

Takeaway ideas:

• Lab group meeting
• Focus on practices in community of practice: introduce yourself as a scholar.
  • Take you into my world.
  • Deb would have them do an introduction.
  • Yes, but I need to be available to them.
• Define the Science of Learning
• Focus on Learning Sciences
• Needs to lead to something