Distance Education

As a working professional in agriculture, extension, education or a related career area, it may seem impossible to continue graduate study. The department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Leadership has designed an online degree program that enables working professionals to achieve either the Master of Science or Master of Agriculture degree. All courses are delivered via Desire 2 Learn or Moodle and are completely asynchronous.

Enrollment Form for Courses. After completion, FAX to Elizabeth Whitfield at (405) 744-5176
Drop Course Form

Schedule of Online AGED Course Offerings
Degree Requirements
Student Advising
Program Admission
Cost/Financial Aid
More Information
Graduate Student Handbook
Helpful Graduate Student Web Sites
Suggested Plans of Study for Distance Students


Schedule of Online AGED Course Offerings
The following courses will be delivered using Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Blackboard and Moodle and are completely asynchronous:

Spring 2008
AGLD 5353:603 Leadership in agriculture by Dr. Cindy Blackwell
AGED 6223:603 Program evaluation in agriculture and education by Kathleen Kelsey

AGED 5823: 603 Advanced Methods of Teaching Agriculture (Dr. Shane Robinson)

Summer 2008
AGED 5202-603 Grantseeking (Dr. Kelsey, 2 credit hours) Summer session 2 (June 2 - July 25, 2008)

Fall 2008
AGED 6100-603 Developments in Agriculture and Extension Education (Dr. Kelsey)
AGED 6103-603 History and philosophical foundations of agricultural and extension education (Dr. Bill Weeks)
AGLE 5303-603 Foundations of leadership theory (Dr. Penny Weeks)

HDFS 5470-601 Management of Volunteer Programs (Dr. Hirschlein) - Please contact Anne Mahoney anne.mahoney@okstate.edu for registration information at(405) 744-9386

AGED 5102-603 Creative Component (Dr. Kathleen Kelsey and Dr. Bill Weeks)

Spring 2009
AGLE 5353-603 Leadership in Agriculture (Dr. Penny Weeks)
AGED 5823-603
(*Please note that the tuition for this 501 section course is $145.50/hour for in-state students and $515.50/hour for out-of-state students. You can register for this course using the Student Information System) Advanced Methods of Teaching Agriculture (Dr. Shane Robinson)
AGED 5983-603 Research Methods in Agricultural Education (Dr. Kathleen Kelsey)
AGED 6223-603 Program Evaluation in Agriculture and Education (Dr. Kathleen Kelsey)

Additional courses offered at a distance from Oklahoma State University can be found at http://ieo.okstate.edu/.

Click on the College Outreach hotlinks for each college to view distance course offerings. The College of Education offers a variety of graduate level courses relevant to agricultural education graduate degrees. COE courses can be found at http://www.okstate.edu/education/outreach/syllabi/index.htm

You may transfer up to 9 credit hours of graduate-level course work from other accredited universities toward your graduate degree at OSU. The following universities offer agricultural education course work at a distance:
National Universities Degree Consortium www.nudc.org

Iowa State University http://www.agde.iastate.edu/

North Carolina State University http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/courses/courses.html 
Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance http://www.gpidea.org/prospective/youthdev/ydProgram.html

Texas Tech Plant and Soil Science courses


Degree Requirements

Master of Science in Agricultural Education
http://aged.okstate.edu/agedms.html

Master of Agriculture in Agriculture Education
http://aged.okstate.edu/agedmag.html

AGED Graduate Courses
http://aged.okstate.edu/courses.html


Student Advising
Graduate students work closely with a graduate advisory committee consisting of three faculty members who provide guidance and mentoring. Students, in consultation with their graduate committee, develop an individual program of study leading to the graduate degree of choice.
Plan of study must be filed before completion of 17 credit hours.

Program Admission
Students obtaining graduate degrees by distance are admitted as regular graduate students. Prospective students can download the graduate admission application from the Graduate College Web site or request an admission application from the department. Full admission requires a baccalaureate degree in agriculture, agricultural education or related major with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.8 or 3.0 in the last 30 hours. Students must also submit a resume, three letters of recommendation, and a one-page statement of purpose to
Dr. Dwayne Cartmell
436 Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078.
Acceptable GRE scores are required for admission to the Master of Science program.

All official transcripts must be sent to the Graduate College
Oklahoma State University
202B Whitehurst Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-1019

No facsimiles are acceptable. For transcripts of transfer hours, please send them to the attention of Mr. Patrick Anderson at the same address.


Cost/Financial Aid
All 600 section distance-delivered courses are $280 per credit hour (in-state and out-of-state). 500 and 001 section courses follow university-established rates. For more information on tuition rates for in-state and out-of-state students visit the following web site: http://osu.okstate.edu/tuitionrates/

Grants and loans are available through the Office of Scholarships Financial Aid on the Stillwater campus. http://www.okstate.edu/finaid/


More Information
For more information about the Master of Science or Master of Agriculture distance-delivered graduate degrees, please contact:

Dr. Kathleen D. Kelsey
Distance Learning Coordinator
466 Agricultural Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
405-744-8137
kathleen.kelsey@okstate.edu

Dr. Dwayne Cartmell
Graduate Coordinator
436 Agricultural Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
405-744-0461
dwayne.cartmell@okstate.edu

Office fax number: (405) 744-5176


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