from [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Dear Keah, The answer is: it depends. It depends on the combined education, experience and skills that the person brings to the position, and it depends on the priorities for the language lab, and for the position. It sometimes also even depends on the culture, by which I mean how much the faculty with whom this person will work care about the person having an advanced degree or not. In our context, I have given as much and sometimes more credence to significant and especially *relevant* work experience - experience working with faculty and students, experience identifying and deploying technology solutions to end users (preferably for learning and teaching), management and project management experience. Also, until now, the candidates with the M.Ed. Tech degrees whom we've interviewed relied almost exclusively on the theory they learned, and had a hard time applying that to real-world examples. As for advanced degrees in other fields, it depends. We often find that candidates with MA's or "ABD's" in language fields make good candidates, largely because they have had to both learn and teach a foreign language, and understand the challenges that instructors and students would want technology to help them with. In the end, think about what you need that can't be taught (e.g., good customer service skills, able to relate to faculty, organized) and what you can teach (e.g., technology). Best, Annelie ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) **************************************************************************