1. Get Your Masters or Doctorate
in Your PJs
Lamar University
Cynthia Cummings, Ed.D.
Diane Mason, Ph.D.
Kay Abernathy, Ed.D.
Sheryl Abshire, Ph. D.

2. Why Online?

3. Why Online?
• 6.1 million students
took at least one
online course in 2010
and there was an
additional reported
increase of 560,000 in
2011 (Allen & Seaman,
2011)
• Prediction of 27.34
million higher Source: 2011 Survey of Online Learning,
education students in Babson Survey research Group
the United States by
2014 (Ambient Insight
Research, 2009)

4. National Online Learning Facts
Higher Ed
• Bacow, Bowen, Guthrie, Lack, and Long (2012) reported that
elearning is being offered at almost every college or university
• -31percent of the students in higher education reported having
taken at least one online course (Allen & Seaman, 2011).
-12.8 percent will complete all of their coursework online, 18.65
million (68.2 percent) will take some online courses (Allen&
Seaman, 2011)
• -According to a survey of 4,523 United States higher education
institutions conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group,
data from 2,512 respondents revealed over 6.1 million students
took at least one online course in 2010 and there was an
additional reported increase of 560,000 in 2011 (Allen &
Seaman, 2011).

5. National Online Learning Facts
K-12 (iNACOL - 2012)
• 27 states have virtual schools
• 31 states including Washington, D.C. offer fully
online school
• Estimated 1,816,400 enrolled in online
courses with 74% of the enrollments in high
school
• 270,000 students enrolled in fully online
schools 2011-2012 up from 2,000 in 2000

6. Online Learning Demand:
Students and Parents
• Forty percent of all middle and high school students
are interested in taking online courses
– NACOL (2007)
• Sixty-nine percent of parents surveyed said they
would be willing to let their child take a high school
course online for credit
- Education Next and Harvard study (2008)

7. “...on average, students in
online learning conditions
performed better than those
receiving face-to-face classes.”
Evidence Based Practices of Online
Learning, 2009

8. “Forget Harvard and think
Lamar University.”

9. Online Master’s of Education students at
Lamar University who took the state
principal exam in the spring and summer of
2012 averaged 10 percentage points higher
than students statewide and also scored
higher than most campus-based students
who have taken the same exam.

10. Results correlate well with the
findings of a June 2009 U.S.
Department of Education study,
entitled Evaluation of Evidence-Based
Practices in Online Learning
(www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evid
ence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf)
that found that students who
participate in part or all of their
instruction online perform as well as
or in some cases outperform students
enrolled in the same on-campus
classes.

11. “Using the Internet to deliver courses
seems to contain great disruptive
potential. It could allow a radical
transformation to happen in an
incremental, rational way.” -Clayton
Christensen, Harvard Business School
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive
Innovation Will Change the Way
the World Learns predicts that
the growth in computer-based
delivery of education will
accelerate swiftly until, by 2019,
half of all high school classes will
be taught over the Internet.

12. One University’s Response to Higher
Ed Online Learning

13. M.Ed
• Educational Administration
• Educational Technology Leadership
with Principal Certification
• Teacher Leadership
• Counseling and Special Populations

14. Ed.D. in Educational Leadership
Concentrations in:
–Effective Schooling
–Diversity/Multiculturalism
–Higher Education
–Technology

15. Ed.D. in Educational Leadership
Course Requirements
• 60 semester hours:
– 21 hours core
– 15 hours in selected concentration/electives
– 12 hours in research
– 12 hours of dissertation

16. First Hand Experiences
Educational Leadership and Technology Graduates

17. Sign Me Up!
• Graduate Programs
• Admission Requirements
• Lamar Application

18. Questions and Answers
Link to presentation at slideshare:
http://tinyurl.com/axsygkx

19. Contact Information
Sheryl Abshire, Ph.D. Cynthia Cummings, Ed.D.
sheryl.abshire@lamar.edu cdcummings@lamar.edu
Diane Mason, Ph.D. Kay Abernathy, Ed.D.
diane.mason@lamar.edu lkayabernathy@lamar.edu