Abstract
All educational journeys lead to successful personal and professional conclusions. Online doctoral students face numerous challenges from cultural, academic, and technological challenges throughout their doctoral journey. The doctoral journey requires the completion of a dissertation, a sign of scholarly achievement and success. With technology, online doctoral students enter a doctoral program looking for motivation to be successful and enhance their online doctoral journey. Mentoring plays a significant role in an online doctoral student’s journey through the doctoral study and research process. The doctoral mentor’s role is to advise and motivate online doctoral students through the dissertation process. Doctoral mentors guide their doctoral mentees as they climb the doctoral mountain to prepare them to become scholars, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and responsible leaders. A doctoral mentor’s collaboration and communication style set the pace for the doctoral student’s successful climb up the doctoral mountain. This paper focuses on the techniques that doctoral mentors and online doctoral students use as they travel up the doctoral mountain summit and graduate.
Recommended Citation
Black, R. (2024). Climbing the Doctoral Mountain to Success. The Journal of Advancing Education Practice, 5(1). https://openriver.winona.edu/jaep/vol5/iss1/2
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