Brandman University
Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership
TIMELINES FOR Ed.D. CURRICULUM TEAM TASK COMPLETION
During 2011-2012, the Ed.D. Curriculum Team will be working on the development of 12 courses and 5
committee projects. Courses include: Writing for Research & Publications I and II; Quantitative Inquiry I
and II: Qualitative Research Methods I and II; 21st Century Leadership; Organizational Communication
& Conflict Resolution; Team & Group Dynamics; Organizational Theory & Development; Strategic
Thinking; and Program Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability.
Committee projects include: Dissertation Handbook, Faculty Handbook, Student Handbook, Cohort
Mentor Handbook and Program Resource Center (Blackboard Shell).
Some concepts and themes will spiral through more than one course. For example, Transformational
Change will be presented initially in both the first content course, 21st Century Leadership, and the first
research course, Writing for Research and Publication. This important concept will reappear in Strategic
Thinking, Program Planning, Evaluation and Accountability, the Transformational Change Project (TCP),
and Leader as Change Agent. Both Qualitative and Quantitative Research classes will incorporate this
concept and the TCP into their planning.
Course Developers
Each course will have at least one writer and some will possibly have a second writer. One of the
signature aspects of this doctoral program will be collaboration, not only among students but also
among faculty. We intend to model for students the leadership principles we teach them. Course
developers should be communicating with each other throughout the planning process to ensure that
they are aware of what is being presented in early learning so they can build on it without going back to
introductory material. Knowing the syllabi content for courses other than your own in the first year will
help you to see where there may be content overlap or theory building blocks. These syllabi, and many
other informative, related documents, are stored on our own website,
http://organizationalleadershipct.weebly.com/ . The password is brandman (lower case b).
As course developers plan their courses, they should be sure to plan the 3 hour monthly cohort
meetings that will provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate mastery of the content, get
further coaching on the new learning and collaborate, support and dialogue with each other. Suggested
agendas, focus questions and learning strategies should be provided, while giving some latitude to
Cohort Mentors to insert their expertise into each session, as they help students to translate best theory
into best practice in the real world.
Additionally, course developers will need to be involved in planning the Immersions that precede and
follow the scheduled courses. They will work collaboratively with the Core Planning Team (Associate
Dean and CT Chair) to plan Immersions during April and May so that materials can be prepared,
speakers arranged and presentations developed for the August Immersion.
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Committees
Each of the 5 committees has a committee chair. The Chair will be responsible for calling wimba
meetings, ensuring that committee members know which tasks they are responsible for, collaboratively
reviewing the material, ensuring the work is presented professionally and in one voice, communicating
with committee members, troubleshooting problems and monitoring submission deadlines, as well as
completing their own tasks.
Once the committee project has been completed, the committee will use the remaining months to plan
a training session to introduce their handbook or resource center to the appropriate audience/s. This
will include developing a Powerpoint with voice-over and possibly some self-corrected, automatic short
quizzes frequently interspersed, that could be posted on the Blackboard Program Resource Center for
easy referral after initial introduction.
Tasks and Timelines
Date
Sept.19
Course Developers
Initial Planning Meetings
Committees
Initial Planning Meetings
Oct. 24th
AOL Documents due for CT Review
November
Course shells made available. Course
building starts.
Dec. 5th-8th
Course developers meet with Instructional
Designer
Shells should be 50% complete. Progress
will be shared with CT.
Table of Contents & 25 % of material
completed with appropriate appendices.
Feedback to Committees from Core
Planning Team incorporated while
developing the next segments.
Turn in 50% of material completed with
appendices.
Feedback will be presented to committees
from Core Planning team and incorporated
in the work while continuing to develop
the next segments with appendices.
Turn in 75% of material.
Feedback will be presented from the Core
Planning Team and incorporated in the
work while developing the next segments.
Turn in 100% of the Finished Project with
Title, Table of Contents, Appendices,
pagination, APA 6th edition, professionally
edited.
Make any final modifications requested by
the Core Planning Team and begin to plan
training modules for the appropriate
audiences/s, including Powerpoints with
voice-over that can be posted in
January
February 21st
CT Meetings to discuss and plan
Immersion Sessions
March 26th30th
Final review of course shells with
Instructional Designer and Course
Developer
April /May
Completed course shell and final AOL
document due. CT meetings to review
each course with CT.
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May
Continued CT meetings to Plan for Year 1
June
Work with CT and Committee members to
coordinate student orientation/ “boot
camp”
Blackboard shell of the Program Resource
Center.
Turn in plan for training, along with draft
of Powerpoints and scripts for voice-over.
Turn in revised plan and revised
Powerpoints and scripts for voice-over.
Receive feedback and finalize the training
materials.
September 11, 2011
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