View our EdD Early Childhood specialization completion requirements
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
- Core courses (50 cr.)
- Capstone (10 cr.)
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
Courses
In the EdD Early Childhood Education specialization, you’ll build skills and progress toward your final capstone project in every course.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
PhD completion program courses help you return to doctoral work, match with an advisor, and stay on track to finishing your dissertation.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
Develop the skills and confidence you need to tackle complex managerial challenges, contribute new knowledge, or teach at the graduate level.
Courses
Develop the skills and confidence needed for complex managerial challenges and research with Walden’s ACBSP-accredited PhD program.
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With Walden University since 2007. Areas of expertise are Teaching & Learning, specifically in the areas of: 1) Research Methods & Statistics, 2) Foundations of Education, and 3)Educational Testing & Evaluation. Over 25 years of experience in Teaching & Learning, including quality control, operations research, and modeling & simulation, as well as Instructional Systems Design and distance learning management systems expertise including Blackboard™, Canvas, and Desire2Learn™. My experience includes over 22 years of college and university instructional experience at the graduate level in statistics and education and over 15 years of program management. This includes over 20 years of experience in statistical analysis, both quantitative and qualitative, with medical school faculty, staff, and students, dissertation students as chair and second chair as their methodologist, to also include combining, cleaning, and analyzing large multivariate data sets for the US Air Force. I have over 12 years of experience in clinical trials and grant application and participation including experience performing study design in clinical research with physicians, nurses, and medical students at Boonshoft School of Medicine as the Associate Director of Medical Education and other institutions. I am recognized as a member of the Society for Military Engineers with additional experience including three years at AFIT’s Center for Cyberspace Research as well as the development of cybersecurity curriculum for local area college and university programs. And most recently as a Statistician with the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL).
PhD, University of North Dakota
MS, University of North Dakota
BS, Trenton State College
Postbaccalaureate Certificate, Wright State Research Institute – Wright State University
NASA Space Grant Fellow, NASA, 1991
Air Force STEM Awards: AF Outstanding Engineer, , 2013
Finalist for the (ISC) 2 GISL Award (US Government I), , 2012
Otto, D., Conway, K. (2018). Hands on experience with Practice Based Learning and Improvement in the third year clerkship setting.. Wright State University Booshoft School of Medicine
Otto, D., Conway, K. (2018). The Who, What, When, and Why of synchronous and asynchronous delivery methods in the third year clerkship setting. Wright State University Booshoft School of Medicine
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