Capstone Seminar I

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

The Ed.D. in Leadership and Learning in Organizations is designed to prepare students to skillfully combine people and resources to facilitate organizational learning and improvement. As the culminating academic experience in the LLO program, the capstone project challenges students to integrate what they have learned in Ed.D. coursework, to demonstrate mastery of content, and to apply it in a disciplined way to an organizational context. As part of the capstone project, students establish a relationship with an organization, other than their own, to address questions or problems of practice related to organizational performance and improvement. In Capstone Seminar I, the first part of students' final capstone paper will be completed. In this seminar and in capstone paper part I, students will identify, introduce, and analyze a problem of practice, a challenge, or a complex phenomenon in an external organization identified by the student. The problem, challenge, or phenomenon will be framed in the relevant literature and will serve as the basis for the capstone investigation. Students will bring multiple forms of evidence to bear that frames and provides the rationale and need to focus on the problem, challenge, or phenomenon in the particular organizational context. Based on the organizational analysis and literature review, students will then design an intervention or process targeted to learning, improvement, or change. Students will draw upon LLO coursework and their own independent research to identify a viable intervention or approach aligned with the organization's needs. [3]