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Experts speaking: Crucial teacher attributes for implementing blended learning in higher education

While blended learning in higher education is valued for various reasons such as addressing students’ needs for flexibility, blended learning implementation remains a challenging process. Because the teacher lies at the heart of any educational change process, the current qualitative study investigates crucial teacher attributes for blended learning implementation from the perspective of experts. Experts […]

Strategic Hiring: Using Job Analysis to Effectively Select Online Faculty

Unlike training and professional development, hiring faculty for online teaching remains underexplored by scholars. It is imperative that faculty hiring be approached thoughtfully and strategically so that institutions can deliver quality online instruction in alignment with their missions, visions, and values. To address this need, this article illustrates how to use job analysis as the […]

Faculty Confidence in Online Learning Grows

Survey finds significant increases in professors’ confidence in virtual learning and their sense of support from their colleges — but continuing concerns about equity for underrepresented students. Inside Higher Ed

Advising the Online Student: A Breakout of Advising Frequency, Preferences, and Satisfaction of Online Students

This breakout study reviews the findings of a 2017 study of Penn State University’s World Campus undergraduate online students. The study surveyed students to report demographic, academic, preferences, and satisfaction information and sought to develop relationships between these variables by their levels of academic success. This breakout study focuses on the findings related to three […]

Innovators Seek Zoom University 2.0

Frustrated with Zoom’s instructional limitations, developers and entrepreneurs take matters into their own hands. Inside Higher Ed

Download Report: Delivering High-Quality Instruction Online in Response to COVID 19: Faculty Playbook

For many in the higher education community, the notion that nearly every educator would all at once be delivering their courses online seemed improbable, if not impossible. But here we are. In just the span of a few weeks, as a result of the rapidly spreading coronavirus, almost every postsecondary institution has either closed or […]

It’s Complicated: The Relationship Between Participation in Academic Coaching and Program Completion in Online Graduate Students

Among graduate students at one completely online university, it previously was found that participation in synchronous one-on-one academic coaching even once increased the odds of persistence 6 to 9 months later 2.66 times. To examine the longer-term impact of this service, this study was designed to investigate the relationship with program completion by comparing the […]

A New Pedagogy is Emerging… and Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor

One and a half billon students around the world, according to UNESCO, were engaged in remote learning at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Some students were able to access the Internet to do so, but not all. The majority of students around the world, who have access to smartphones, are able […]

Instructor Prompts and Student Engagement in Synchronous Online Nutrition Classes

The number of online courses in higher education is on the rise. However, empirical evidence elucidating best practices for synchronous online instruction is needed to best implement these courses. The research purposes were to examine synchronous online class sessions to (1) quantify interaction type, frequency, and rate, (2) quantify student engagement frequency, and (3) quantify […]

Cultivating Online Faculty Growth Through Leadership Training

Whether in business or education, leadership should always take steps to prepare employees for increasing responsibilities and future leadership roles. Continuous leadership training helps ensure employees are prepared to lead their classrooms as well as step into future leadership roles with confidence. Cultivating faculty leadership has numerous benefits for not only the faculty involved, but […]

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