Established in December 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education was charged with identifying the challenges of and highlighting best practices in postsecondary data science education. Convening quarterly for 3 years, representatives from academia, industry, and…

Purpose: The paper comprises an extended discussion of the possibilities that Web 2.0 applications offer to doctoral researchers, and where such applications fit in the early twenty-first century in the research environment. It explores the main issues associated with their use by doctoral researchers, and how these factors have influenced the…

Information is presented on 63 doctoral programs and more than 150 master's degree and 6-year programs in the fields of educational and instructional technology and 82 graduate programs in educational computing. A brief description of each program includes the mailing address, a contact person, degrees offered, and information on faculty and…

With the changing demographics of the American workforce, the National Science Foundation, along with the U.S. Department of Commerce, has highlighted the shortage of minorities in information technology (IT) careers (http://www.ta.doc.gov/Reports/itsw/itsw.pdf). Using data from a 6-year period and the psychology Involvement-Regimen-Self…

One of 10 publications from a long-range vocational education planning project, this report presents the results of exploring the feasibility and need for a doctoral program in education planning. Three models were developed: (1) The first is based on a competency approach, designed to use those professional experiences that would help bring the…