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Exploring Factors That Help Students Feel More Connected To Their Online Instructors, Debra Austin
Exploring Factors That Help Students Feel More Connected To Their Online Instructors, Debra Austin
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
This research explores business students’ perceptions of connectedness with their online instructors in higher education. The results were analyzed to discover the basic constructs of these perceptions. The findings will help faculty understand how they can improve their connection with students in an online environment in an effort to form stronger relationships with students and better their teaching practice. Students across multiple sections of introductory level business courses at Portland Community College were asked to participate in this qualitative study. Narrative research methods were used to best understand the complexities of the students’ lived experiences. Journey maps and interviews were …
Social, Cognitive, And Teaching Presence: Impact On Hybrid And Online Graduate-Level Educational Experience And Retention, Kristi Wheaton
Social, Cognitive, And Teaching Presence: Impact On Hybrid And Online Graduate-Level Educational Experience And Retention, Kristi Wheaton
Doctor of Education (EdD)
This study sought to explore the relationship between the elements of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework and graduate-level students’ perceived educational experience. Further, it sought to determine if these elements, which include social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence, could be used to determine the likelihood of program retention. The quantitative study surveyed 384 graduate-level students from 10 programs at a small, Christian university. Using the CoI framework as a theoretical basis, this study used factor analysis to validate the CoI survey designed by Arbaugh et al. (2008), multiple regression to determine the relationship between social presence, cognitive presence, …