The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to explore how first-year Black American students describe the role of resilience, as expressed through the components of purposefulness, adaptability, social support, and confidence, in fostering student success in online undergraduate US higher education institutions. The main theoretical…

Strategies that have worked to offset high attrition rates and retain students in traditional institutions of higher education are not necessarily applicable within an online learning environment. As a result, not only is student attrition more likely to occur in the online environment, but traditional classroom retention strategies are less…

For the thirty-sixth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…