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• TITLE: A Higher Education Leadership Distance Ph.D. Program: An Assessment Using Blocher’s Ecological Learning Theory

  AUTHORS: Linda Kuk, James H. Banning

  KEYWORDS: Distance Ph.D Program, Distance Learning, Leadership Education, Virtual Learning

  JOURNAL NAME: Creative Education, Vol.5 No.9, May 26, 2014

  ABSTRACT: This study utilized a case study approach to discuss the issues of distance education in the delivery of doctoral education. The case study provided abroad background to the issues of distance education graduate programs and an assessment of the case. Blocher’s (1974) Ecological Learning Theory is applied to the case to provide for analytical generalization. The results support the need for distance delivery of academic programs to consider both the content and the program’s delivery structure as important components in realizing student success.