Dr. Pam Kocher Brown
The Ed.D. in kinesiology is actually one of the programs that our Department has had for quite some time. We only transitioned it in 2014 to an online program mainly because we had a growing and incredibly diverse group of students who couldn’t actually get to the campus. Our program is designed for practicing professionals–people who are currently employed in the field who can bring that knowledge and experience with them to generate ideas in classes and work towards their dissertation.
Our program is designed for practicing professionals–people who are currently employed in the field who can bring that knowledge and experience with them to generate ideas in classes and work towards their dissertation… Our curriculum is designed so that students can take the information and skills they are learning in classes and apply it immediately.
That is one of the things that is important to us–to have this diverse group of people who are coming in with real world experience. Our hope is that by coming in with that experience, we can work with, our students to help them collaborate and connect with each other, explore research scholarship, and find ways to put it into action. Our curriculum is designed so that students can take the information and skills they are learning in classes and apply it immediately.
Then from a dissertation perspective, we want students to consider problems of practice they face in their workplace and in their professional discipline, with the aim of examining this problem in order to find ways to overcome it and improve their profession. So the mission of our program is to take the expertise of our students and their experience, and couple that with the research, scholarship, and course work so that they can pull that all together to have positive, real-world impact.