NOTE: Currently the Eduneer Docenture program is only available to select EducateONE volunteers. We plan to open this up to the public in the future after achieving DEAC accreditation.
Eduneer Docenture is a competency-based education program designed to have qualified educators learn at a postgraduate level scholarship of learning system design appropriate for a professorship, based on an expansion of Ernest L. Boyer's forms of scholarship. The total estimated time for completion is between 2 to 5 years, depending on the student's competency and time they can dedicate. Students are encouraged to optimize their completion time by using synergies between the 5 forms of scholarship so that they gain more effect for the effort.
Alpha I Cohort Invite List
The initial pilot cohort (aka alpha cohort) will include only those who are known to have demonstrated the highest competency in education, but who unfortunately do not currently have the full academic recognition of this. The following are being invited to volunteer as fellows with EducateONE, and work towards their Docenture Certification, which we aim to have future full recognition as a doctoral degree.
- Olga Evans
- Joseph Beahm
- Tami Kacevas
- Pam Hart
- Allen Young
- Deborah “Miss Sunny” Daniels
- Brandii Grace
Curriculum
Competency-Based Education: Demonstrating Prerequisite Mastery for Docenture
Competency-Based Education is the foundation of EducateONE. It is the simple recognition that time alone does not designate mastery, and so all time-based credit systems have one of the two problems:
- Either students can complete without full competence
- Or students who are not competent "fail" and are not given the opportunity to gain competence
The time-based form of education was started in the 1800's when the assembly line was the most modern technology, and it was based on the inaccurate belief that people could be made educated like widgets in a factory. This is the model behind grade levels, which did not exist in the one-room schoolhouses. It also is partially why the Carnegie unit came to be. What is sad is that from the beginning many people recognized that this was a poor system, but it became so ingrained in our social systems, that it is hard to even think of schools without grade levels.
So the initial competence that Eduneer Docenture students must gain, is to leave the water of current educational paradigm, and understand the validity of competence mastery. Further, they will learn how to demonstrate mastery, as they only can continue in the Docenture program if they show they have mastered teaching or other eduneering. Although, to be clear, "mastery" does not mean perfection; in many ways one knows they have mastered something, when they really know how much they don't know.
- Equivalent to 10 Semester Hours/15 Quarter Hours
- Estimated Time: 2 to 6 months
Research-Driven Education: The Docenture Dissertation
Traditional doctoral programs have research at the foundation, so as the Docenture is at a doctoral level, we too start with research. And, we also gain more effect for the effort, by having docenture students learn about and via research-driven education as an education modality that not only is for doctorates; this form of education is valuable for life-long learning and often is used by autodidacts. Further, research-driven education aligns with Boyer's scholarship of discovery, which is the traditional focus of professorship preparation on quantitative and qualitative research. The Eduneering Docenture is a design science research program, and so this initial course is primarily to do the secondary research required of a thorough literature review, as well as to prepare for the following action research steps involved in design science research.
- Equivalent to 10 Semester Hours/15 Quarter Hours
- Estimated Time: 2 months to 1 year
Inquiry, Problem, and Project-Based Learning: Eduneering Curriculum
The scholarship of design is the bedrock of the docenture program, in which students will conduct design science research and write up its results in their thesis. It is recommended that this is the heart of the docenture student's work, such that the quantitative and qualitative research supports the design work, and that later this design is applied through the scholarship of application.
- Equivalent to 20 Semester Hours/30 Quarter Hours
- Estimated Time: 4 months to 2 years
Scholarship of Application
The scholarship of application is the real-world demonstration of using the knowledge gained to benefit the world via a project. To demonstrate competency, docenture students will develop and manage a project of sufficient size and rigor to demonstrate their ability to apply what they have learned. Further, in line with the EducateONE philosophy that postgraduate education must be focused on giving, this project must have benefit to the world. It is recommended that this project is an extension of the research to optimize the synergy and time to complete the program
- Equivalent to 10 Semester Hours/15 Quarter Hours
- Estimated Time: 2 months to 1 year
Scholarship of Integration
The scholarship of integration is breaking down the silos of academia and ensuring that interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary work can be done by the docenture student. To demonstrate this competency the docenture student will work with one or more researchers or other professionals from different disciplines, to support research and/or a project being conducted by them, so as to help expand the knowledge of the docenture student and better integrate their discipline with the whole. This may be part of their project, or it may be separate, depending upon what is appropriate and desired by the student.
- Equivalent to 10 Semester Hours/15 Quarter Hours
- Estimated Time: 2 months to 1 year
Scholarship of Teaching
The root of "docenture" and "doctorate" come from the Latin "docēre" meaning "to teach"; thus, we ensure that the scholarship of teaching is part of our program.
- Equivalent to 10 Semester Hours/15 Quarter Hours
- Estimated Time: 6 months to 1 year
