Software Engineering Docenture

NOTE: Currently the Software Engineering Docenture program is only available to EducateONE volunteers. We plan to open this up to the public in the future after achieving DEAC accreditation.

Software Engineering Docenture is a competency-based education program designed to have qualified developers learn at a postgraduate level scholarship of software engineering 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.

Scholarship of Discovery

The scholarship of discovery is the traditional focus of professorship preparation on quantitative and qualitative research. In completing the program, all docenture students will complete research projects that demonstrate competence in both these forms of research at a level that can pass journal peer-review scrutiny. While these may be done separately, it is generally encouraged that students conduct this research as part of their full design science thesis, to gain the most synergistic benefit.

• Equivalent to 10 Semester Hours/15 Quarter Hours
• Estimated Time: 2 months to 1 year

Scholarship of Design

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