TY - JOUR AU - Mertler, Craig A. AU - Henriksen, Danah PY - 2018/03/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Creative and Innovative Solutions to Accommodate the Growth of a Professional Practice Doctoral Program JF - Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice JA - IE VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Essays DO - 10.5195/ie.2018.55 UR - http://impactinged.pitt.edu/ojs/ImpactingEd/article/view/55 SP - AB - <p>This essay describes one institution’s struggle to grow its EdD program by adding an equivalent online version of a successful face-to-face program. One of the challenges faced was that of creating a comparable experience for online students to share their ongoing action research, an activity that had long been part of the face-to-face version of the program. An innovative, all-day, virtual doctoral research conference was developed and implemented. We describe our creative rethinking of the original event, towards a new, successful, and fully-online redesigned event. Although the event continues to be refined, the inaugural event proved to be a successful solution to the challenge of transferring all components of a face-to-face program over to its online equivalent. Feedback from students who participated in the conference is shared, and recommendations for other EdD programs is offered.</p> ER -