Here is it almost three years later and I have a new deadline.
This week, I started the Ed.D program in Instructional Technology at Towson University. I am taking two classes: Legal Issues and Intro to Instructional Technology. My big dilemma this week was whether I should take a third course, a statistics class on Thursday evenings. The other two are both on Tuesday.
My advisor and the director of the program, who happen to be the instructors for both of my Tuesday courses, both advised against taking a third class. The reason for wanting to take a third class is to be able to finish earlier. The obvious reason against doing so is that I would be overwhelmed and not do well at any of them. So, I'm sticking with just the two classes.
My only deadline now is that any courses I might transfer from Delaware will expire ten years after I took them. So, my classes from Fall 1996 will no longer qualify for tranfer by the end of this year. And every semester I am in this program, another 9 credits will expire.
I started working on a course calendar for the next 2-3 years and I figured out that it is technically possible to finish by the end of 2008, which would allow either 6 or 9 credits from Delaware to transfer in.
But, I realized that planning that far in advance does not do me any good. If I get to 2008 and I am almost ready to graduate, then, yes, I will inquire about transferring those credits and saving a semester, but until then, I am just going to focus on doing well one semester at a time.
So, I will continue with this blog as a record of my progress through the program.
This week, I started the Ed.D program in Instructional Technology at Towson University. I am taking two classes: Legal Issues and Intro to Instructional Technology. My big dilemma this week was whether I should take a third course, a statistics class on Thursday evenings. The other two are both on Tuesday.
My advisor and the director of the program, who happen to be the instructors for both of my Tuesday courses, both advised against taking a third class. The reason for wanting to take a third class is to be able to finish earlier. The obvious reason against doing so is that I would be overwhelmed and not do well at any of them. So, I'm sticking with just the two classes.
My only deadline now is that any courses I might transfer from Delaware will expire ten years after I took them. So, my classes from Fall 1996 will no longer qualify for tranfer by the end of this year. And every semester I am in this program, another 9 credits will expire.
I started working on a course calendar for the next 2-3 years and I figured out that it is technically possible to finish by the end of 2008, which would allow either 6 or 9 credits from Delaware to transfer in.
But, I realized that planning that far in advance does not do me any good. If I get to 2008 and I am almost ready to graduate, then, yes, I will inquire about transferring those credits and saving a semester, but until then, I am just going to focus on doing well one semester at a time.
So, I will continue with this blog as a record of my progress through the program.
