5 credits
Effective educational leaders are well-versed in current practices of learner-centered teaching and effective learner-centered curriculum design. In this course, educators are provided with a forum for conducting and sharing in-depth content research, sharpening their doctoral-level skills, and discovering best practices and current trends for promoting effective curricular design and evaluation in the content areas. Educators are grouped by interest area and have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues to build their content knowledge and guide their research interests. By conducting scholarly searches, evaluating dissertation and project study abstracts, and creating effective annotated bibliographies, educators will prepare for their own doctoral research and capstone project.