The Open University will be able to submit for the approval of the MLA an application to conduct studies for a Ph.D. degree in education - technologies and learning systems, this in light of its uniqueness in the development and use of learning technologies, a subject that is of great importance in the current era. Once the application is submitted it will be reviewed by an international committee of experts
MLA approved for the first time the Open University to submit to MLA a study program for a third degree: Doctor of Education - in the field of technologies and learning systems (Ph.D.).
The Open University's request to submit the application was approved by the MLA in light of the institution's compliance with the threshold conditions established in the MLA's decision regarding the submission and opening of programs for a third degree (doctorate) in specified fields in institutions of higher education that do not have permission to award doctorates independently.
The MLA approved the submission of the plan, among other things, because the field of technologies and learning systems is a developing field in recent years and is of great importance in general, and in the current Corona era especially when it comes to online learning. The Open University is an institution with a reputation for the development and use of learning technologies, and therefore the MLA sees importance in the existence of a program of this kind.
The Open University is a unique institution in the landscape of higher education. It was established in 1974 and in 1980 it received recognition and authorization to award a graduate degree.
From the beginning of the 90s until the end of the first decade of the 13,000s, the number of students at the Open University (in all degrees) increased from about 1990 students in 43,000 to more than 2019 in 2017. In 120, a master's degree program was opened for the first time at the OP with 2,000 students who studied computer science, and today over XNUMX students are studying at the OP in a variety of master's degree programs, including a master's degree program without a thesis and with a thesis in the field of technologies and learning systems .
It should be noted that the approval given to the institution is the first step in the accreditation process, in which approval is given to submit an application to hold a study program for a PhD in an institution that does not have such permission, and in the next step the detailed application submitted by the institution will be examined through an international committee of experts in the field, which will be asked to examine, among other things, The institution's ability to hold a PhD in terms of the academic and research strength of the field in which the program was submitted.
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