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Staci L. Hunt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study intended to assess the overall effectiveness of online student services at Northern Kentucky University as perceived by students in the online accelerated RN-BSN program. The awareness, ease of access, utilization, and perceived value of academic advising, tutoring, and technological (IT) services were specifically…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Virtual Universities, Student Attitudes, Academic Advising
Yolanda Louie – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem that was addressed through this study is that online undergraduate adult students, 25 years of age or older, do not persist to graduation at Caring University, a pseudonym for an online university. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the perceptions of online adult undergraduate alumni about what motivated them to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Adult Students, Academic Persistence, Virtual Universities
Michael Messer Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dating back to 1998, researchers established that adults learn differently than younger, recent high school graduates. Even with decades of research on the topic, approximately 39 million American adults have attended college but left school without obtaining a degree. The research questions addressed the purpose of this qualitative exploratory…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Electronic Learning
Heather Fauland – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of online graduate degree programs. However, there are few informal opportunities for students online to connect with one another and learn about the field outside of their coursework. It is important to understand who these online graduate students are, as well as their…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Virtual Universities, Peer Relationship
Maricel Lawrence – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The unpredictability of the 21st century presents a challenge for higher education institutions, requiring them to develop the capacity to navigate an increasingly unpredictable environment. This study aimed to examine how faculty, administrators, and leaders at a four-year, public, fully online university in the United States start to embed…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Virtual Universities, Change Strategies, Capacity Building
Faqryza Ab Latif – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate how a virtual mentored research program, the National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP), affects sense of belonging among underserved students in science fields. Examining the effects of virtual research programs can contribute to the body of research on ways to instill sense of belonging…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Sense of Community, STEM Education, Electronic Learning