1. Designing an Out-of-School Learning EdD Program
Charlene Trovato
Tom Akiva
Marijke Hecht

2. EdD Program at Pitt Our School-wide program:
Prepares working professionals to become scholarly practitioners to develop the knowledge and skills to address and mitigate enduring problems affecting children, families, and communities.

3. EdD Program at Pitt Our School-wide program:
Prepares transformational leaders across education sectors
Education Leadership (P-12)
Health and Physical Activity (2016)
Higher Education Management
Language, Literacy and Culture
Social and Comparative Analysis in Education
Special Education Education
STEM Education
Out-of-School Learning (2017)

4. EdD Program at Pitt Our School-wide program:
Serves approximately 60 students in each of four cohorts for a total of 240 students in eight AREAS of CONCENTRATION
P-12 schools
Institutions of higher education in the U.S. and abroad,
Ministers of education and health,
International nongovernmental agencies, community based organizations,
Research and development institutes,
Health and human service organizations, and government

5. EdD Program at Pitt Let’s begin our tour of the Pitt program
Look in your welcoming folder for the “EdD At-A-Glance”

6. Why an out-of-school learning EdD?
Enormous growth in afterschool, informal learning, & connected programs
New potential for lifewide & lifelong, & connected learning & school-program partnership
Increasing need for professional leaders

7. 1. Three big challenges We need to recruit nationally.
How do we add a distance option without killing the face-to-face program?

8. 1. 2. Three big challenges We need to recruit nationally.
How do we add a distance option without killing the face-to-face program? 2.
We have a mighty- but-small OSL faculty team
How do we support EdD, PhD, & MS without watering down?

9. 1. 2. 3. Three big challenges We need to recruit nationally.
How do we add a distance option without killing the face-to-face program? 2.
We have a mighty- but-small OSL faculty team
How do we support EdD, PhD, & MS without watering down? 3.
OSL is mad diverse!
How can we support this diversity and advance the field?

10. 1. 2. 3. Three big challenges We need to recruit nationally.
How do we add a distance option without killing the face-to-face program? 2.
We have a mighty- but-small OSL faculty team
How do we support EdD, PhD, & MS without watering down? 3.
OSL is mad diverse!
How can we support this diversity and advance the field?

11. Iterative design process
Collected data
Developed course activities
Reviewed evaluation of existing EdD +
Surveyed OSL professionals
Tested prototypes of course structure and activities +
Refined timeline and syllabus

12. Design Principles
Cohort Building
Problematization
Adaptation

13. Blending synchronous and asynchronous interactions
“I love the idea of an online course for informal education, but I also value being in touch with peers who are practicing and studying the same concepts. So I would benefit from occasional online meetings via zoom or skype.” 1.
Blending synchronous and asynchronous interactions

14. Blending synchronous and asynchronous interactions1.
Blending synchronous and asynchronous interactions
Skype, Zoom, etc.
Telepresence
Recording live meetings
Apps like FlipGrid, multimedia

15. Learner-centered program capitalizing on cohort talent
“I'd like to see it centered on sharing information, experiences, practices among the participants with the instructor/facilitator filling in where information is needed…” 2.
Learner-centered program capitalizing on cohort talent

16. 3. Opportunity for Research-Practice Partnership experience
Part-time EdD students
Opportunity for Research-Practice Partnership experience
Full-time PhD students 3.
Supporting needs + defining appropriate expectations

17. Unit 1: Exploring Informal Learning
Innovative reflective journaling
Students ID problems of practice
Weeks 1-6

18. Unit 2: RPP Capacity Building
Design Project
RPP teams gather evidence of problem of practice
RPP teams develop activity, e.g. museum exhibit or afterschool science activity
Weeks 7-10

19. Unit 3: Conference Paper or Grant Proposal
RPP teams refine activities + connect to learning sciences
Present final activity as conference paper or grant proposal
Weeks 11-15

20. Onward! We launched our first OSL cohort this summer with 7 students!
Informal learning course this fall
Managing the distance
We will keep iterating