Greenhaus Education and Other "Effects"

I have had a bad week and was feeling a little uninspired.  I even missed my weekly #edchat, so feel disconnected from my PLN.  Which perhaps explains my very negative reaction to the article from Education Week entitled " The Ed.D. Dilemma: Why Harvard's Decision Could Harm the Quest for Teacher Professionalism".   And actually, it's not the article, it's Harvard's decision and the implication that an Ed.D. is not as worthy as a Ph.D. My thoughts - well, my thoughts are not appropriate so I will keep them to myself. Here is the line that got my ire up: "Within the field of education, Ed.D. programs had for a long time been assumed to be inferior to Ph.D. programs, and only marginally useful to the improvement of educational practice, policy, and administration."  Now, granted, past tense is used here and Ted Purinton was just stating a fact that is unfortunately, quite true. From my own personal experience, when I tell people I am getti...

Here I go again - reading articles.  This one struck me as it is totally what I am a firm believer in - online learning for adults, which includes online degrees and professional development courses. The article, Technology's Continuing Struggle to Disrupt Higher Education , basically says that online learning has the great potential of providing higher education degrees to more students, but these degrees do not earn the respect they deserve. Because "consumers of higher education use prestige as the signal of higher quality because commonly accepted measures of actual student learning do not exist" online learning is not considered as prestigious or worthy as learning from a 'brick and morter' institution. I completely agree that this IS the stigma that online institutions suffer.  Unfairly so I think.  Hopefully this will change.  Online learning is the wave of the future and, as someone who would not be finishing my doctorate degree from a 'brick and mor...