Global Executive Doctor of Education

Program Highlights

Drive positive change in large academic institutions and other educational settings with a flexible doctorate that equips you to lead.

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Achieve Large-Scale Improvements Across Educational Systems

The Global Executive Doctor of Education (Global EdD) program will prepare you to achieve large-scale improvements across educational systems through the strategic use of policy, innovative practice, assessment and social entrepreneurship.

The hybrid learning experience of this program combines online classes with nine one- to two-week intensive class sessions at various international destinations. The online learning experience allows you to participate in intensive class sessions virtually. Before the beginning of each term, you will have the opportunity to choose whether to enroll in the hybrid or online learning experience for that term.

Through this program, you will:

• Glean insights and solutions from a wide range of global perspectives.
• Have the option to travel to up to four countries for nine intensive class sessions.
• Remain employed while participating in live, online class sessions.
• Interact with ambitious, international leaders with a variety of professional aspirations.
• Complete a dissertation as part of a thematic dissertation group.

Curriculum

Designed for education change-makers.

Designed for change-makers, this program equips senior leaders with the skills to transform education.

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The Fundamentals of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

EDUC 620 | 2 Units

The Fundamentals of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

EDUC 620 | 2 Units

Provides an overview of the creativity sequence, and explores the genesis of creative ideas – within an individual and within an organization.

Educational Organizations: Governance and Finance I

EDUC 624 | 2 Units

Educational Organizations: Governance and Finance I

EDUC 624 | 2 Units

This two-course sequence explores the impact of global transformations on educational systems’ governance and finance.

Understanding Research that Informs Educational Leadership

EDUC 623 | 3 Units

Understanding Research that Informs Educational Leadership

EDUC 623 | 3 Units

Provides a framework for understanding, interpreting and applying education research. Specific topics include: publication venues; basic research designs (experiments, modeling); reading research studies critically; understanding validity, reliability and other related constructs, and an introduction to evaluation research.

Evaluating and Assessing Educational System Outcomes

EDUC 723 | 3 Units

Evaluating and Assessing Educational System Outcomes

EDUC 723 | 3 Units

Addresses the often-overlooked step in creating educational reform: evaluating impact. It introduces basic assessment concepts and strategies, and instructs students in the planning, design, implementation and application of an evaluation approach for a “real time” initiative.

“You need to leave the box in order to think outside it”

USC Rossier’s Global EdD program takes students to South Africa and other global destinations to observe and learn from international education leaders.

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Faculty

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Robert A. Filback

Professor of Clinical Education

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Alan G. Green

Professor of Clinical Education

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Cathy Krop

Professor of Clinical Education

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Anthony B. Maddox

Professor of Clinical Education and Engineering

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“If I could be a perpetual student in the Global EdD program, I would. Through the program I was able to dig into what education means to me, while also seeing education through the lens of countries and cultures across the world. This global experience had a multidimensional impact, changing how I hope to influence education in the United States and even how I plan to educate my own children.”

Allison Boxer, EdD ’20

Strategic Advisor to the Dean, University of Utah School of Business