The document provides an agenda for a workshop on exploiting rapid changes in technology to enhance post-graduate learning. The agenda includes sections on starting with the present moment, backward mapping timelines, and new ideas for 2017. It encourages participants to consider all aspects of their lives in planning, protect dissertation time, and learn from past mistakes. Participants are given homework to develop 2-month and 6-week plans for 2017 and consider accountability structures to stay on track. Resource links are also provided.

1. Exploiting Rapid
Change in Technology
Enhanced Learning
… for Post Graduate Education
Doctoral Organization for 2017:
Considering ALL parts of your life in your plans

2. “Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are
self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than
their eyes can already see.”
― Criss Jami
“The future is never just one choice. It's a thousand. And they
never stop. You will choose your future every day of your life.
And should you wake up one day to find that you regret the
choice you made the day before, then make a new one. Don't
worry about whether you might be wrong someday. Worry
about whether you're right now. Tomorrow can wait.”
― Cora Carmack,

3. Agenda
1. Starting with NOW – our story and a few questions
1. Four slides of questions for you to answer for
yourself.
2. Backwards map – Remember each phase takes a year
for most students
3. New extra fine tuning for 2017
4. Homework /Resources

4. NOW WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THEM?
What are the boring moments of your
life that come up regularly – like a
commute, or waiting for your kids, or
riding a bus to work/school? Or? Or?
Podcasts, recordings of webinars, lit review work,
? ? ?

5. NOW WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THEM?
Delegate? Share responsibility?
How can you protect your thesis/dissertation time?
Who are the members of your personal team who you can
rely on to help?
Now…
List the top five events that happen
semi regularly to regularly that throw
off your time management

6. What are your deadlines?
NOW RANK THEM ACCORDING TO HOW MUCH TIME THEY MAY TAKE
1. Writing a chapter… 4 weeks X 20 hours a week = 80
hours
2. Rewriting after review – 2 weeks x 10-20 = 20-40 hours
3. Seeing the company from whom you want data –
4 days x2-3 hours – thinking, writing a good one pager,
being clear on benefits and risks, confidentiality,
organizing materials, practicing
4. Ethical review – 1 week X 20 hours – materials organized,
reviewed and then turned in + waiting time
5. Supervisors meeting – same as #3 above?

7. What tasks have you NOT given
enough time to and, as a result, fell in
a hole?
What do you commit now to plan differently in 2017?
Who will hold you accountable?
How will you measure / evaluate / celebrate your successes?
THE SECRET IS, OF COURSE, TO LEARN FROM MISTAKES…

8. Part Two : Backwards Mapping _
Looking ahead

9. Phase One – Research Design
MONTH BY SECOND MONTH
1. Nov – Dec – docs turned in for preliminary work
2. Sept – Oct – write prospectus/proposal, what is needed
3. July – Aug – begin to write – you have continued to read
this whole time so you have 70 or more refs
4. May – June – revise take to supervisor again – at some
unis you may do prospectus here
5. Mar – April – plan, read – take ideas to supervisor
6. Jan - Feb – You are reading, about your topic, making a
chart of methods others are using, discussing what may
be possible in your scope of options

10. Phase Two – in US writing, in EU may
collect data to write in Phase 3
MONTH BY SECOND MONTH
1. Nov – Dec – Proposal defense and Ethical Review
2. Sept – Oct – Review of docs pre defense
3. July – Aug – Writing/reviewing/editing/writing/reviewing
4. May – June – Second chapter reviewed, third written
5. Mar – April – First chapter reviewed, second written
6. Jan - Feb – First chapter written

11. Phase Three – in US data collecting
/analysis writing, in EU may collect
data to write in Phase 3
MONTH BY SECOND MONTH
1. Nov – Dec – Final review/edit/review/edit - submission
2. Sept – Oct – Discussion drafted, resulted edited/redone,
Discussion reviewed, rest of document brought current
3. July – Aug – analysis finished, writing results finished and
under review
4. May – June – data finished, analysis continued, start
writing
5. Mar – April – data collection, analysis begun
6. Jan - Feb – data collection

12. New Ideas for 2017!
With a little help from our friends…
1. Use of Kabanflow.com – merging Pomodoro with
agile planning and (with premium)…
2. Plan 6 weeks out and every week on Friday
revisit your plans

13. Homework
To Bring if you wish to Webinar Tuesday Jan 10th
1. First, do a two month by two month plan for 2017
2. Second, do a six week, week by week plan to get you there.
3. Third, consider your answers to the first four questions
4. Fourth, make commitments/set up accountability structures
you will impose to keep you on target.
5. Fifth, bring these to the meeting on the 10th where we will
analyze what has gone wrong in the past and how to avoid
those in 2017

14. Resource Links
Found in Search on DN sites…
• Pdf BackwardsMappingJan2014 – slides with usual timings
• What Does It Take to Graduate This Year? Part One: Backward-
Mapping – general discussion as per Elmore (1979)
• Finish Your Dissertation in Two Years – Year One
• Finish Your Dissertation in Two Years – Year Two – part two of
article above
• Academic Marathons: The Fifth and Last Discussion
• Comic on Revisions

15. What’s Up at DoctoralNet?
1. Webinars and grouped planned and up in draft form for January and February –
sign up now and be sure to be able to see all the recordings you wanted.
2. Groups! – alternate Tuesdays – Read Listen Comment (Improve Your Writing &
4 Lingerers (Get Your Thesis Moving Again)
3. LET’S PARTY! DEC 14TH – WHAT WILL YOU BRING?

16. Extra people

17. Extra People