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This PhD can be completed either in-person or entirely online. This degree is housed in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies (SISLT).

Overview

As a doctoral student in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, you can follow interdisciplinary paths. Approaches to inquiry include technical, cognitive, epistemological, cultural, political, and economic aspects of informing and learning. Interest areas include:

Engineering education

Educational gaming and simulation

Information organization, access, and dissemination

Information seeking and use

Interactive learning environments including VR, embodied and augmented learning

Learner-centered design, interface design, instructional design

Libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions

Reading, gaming, and other immersive experiences

User Experience (UX) and Human computer interaction (HCI)

The completion of the program will prepare you for career tracks in higher education, public policy, public and private research in various fields including but not limited to interaction design, instructional design, library and information science.

Doctoral students are required to complete a minimum of 9 credits of ISLT Doctoral seminars where they will become fluent in current research in our field and develop writing skills.

Career prospects

Drive the next generation of online learning and information retrieval in research and development, academia, industry or government. Based upon their dissertation, previous experience or goals, our Ph.D. students advance or launch their careers in higher education, public policy or private research, focusing on interactive design, instructional design, or library and information systems.

Potential paths include:

Professor of information science and learning technologies

Educational administration

Library administration

Research and development

Developing corporate training programs or information systems