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Jonathon Austen Klyng – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Building community is essential to achieving optimal learning conditions. Failure to build community in online courses is linked to higher drop-out rates, feelings of isolation, and lower academic success rate (Adams & Wilson, 2020). Although there is research on building a sense of community in online course settings, much of this work has…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Online Courses, Community Colleges, Electronic Learning
Jessica T. McCarthy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduate students are an often-overlooked student population in a traditional undergraduate institution, but these students provide significant enhancement to the culture of a college or university. This study investigated how instructional modalities and other critical factors impact graduate student experience and sense of belonging.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Sense of Community, Masters Programs, Student Attitudes
Ensmann, Suzanne; Whiteside, Aimee – Online Learning, 2022
This descriptive study offers lessons learned from students' experiences with a gamified, social media-like instructional approach in eighteen courses from spring 2021 through spring 2022. Researchers at a mid-sized university in the southeastern United States leveraged Christensen's (2011) disruptive innovation theory as a guiding framework to…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Sense of Community, Online Courses, Gamification
Waynele Emi Yu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Place-based educators recognize the importance of place in shaping learning, as our sense of place serves as a lens through which we interpret our experiences. Despite the growing prevalence of online environments in education, their impact on our sense of place remains largely unexplored. This case study employed critical case sampling to explore…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Safety
Huntington, Heidi E. – Journal of Advertising Education, 2022
Visual bookmarking app Pinterest, known for its aspirational and consumptive qualities of users' "pinning" work, has recently made concerted forays into the online advertising and marketing space. At the same time, its visual and collaborative qualities offer unique potential for application in pedagogy. This paper describes a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Advertising, Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication
Knott, Hannah; Baker, Sara – Christian Higher Education, 2023
McMillan and Chavis (1986) defined a psychological sense of community (PSC) as feelings of influence, membership, integration, and shared emotional connection. The importance of PSC to graduate student success has been established, but to date, no one has examined the extent to which PSC predicts student thriving when data is disaggregated by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sense of Community, Graduate Students, Prediction
Jeanette Abrahamsen; Glenn Gordon Smith; Vanya Tsvetkova – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2023
This interview study offers educators practical tips on using tools to improve online learning experiences. Eleven instructors, professors, and instructional designers were interviewed about the challenges they faced designing and teaching online university courses in Florida. This study aimed to explore how educators and instructional designers…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology, College Faculty
Christie Schultz; S. Anthony Thompson; Jenn de Lugt – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This article invites scholars of teaching and learning in higher education to consider the ways in which instructors can use practices of inviting inclusion to create an environment in which students can feel -- and be -- included in online classrooms, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the analogy of a "block…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Online Courses
Xi Lin; Ken Luterbach; Kristen H. Gregory; Sarah E. Sconyers – Online Learning, 2024
This study explored the impact of integrating ChatGPT into asynchronous online discussions. The analysis encompassed students' log data from Canvas and their perspectives on using ChatGPT. Results revealed a significant enhancement in overall discussion participation when ChatGPT is encouraged, emphasizing its potential as a catalyst for…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication
Erin Lavik – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2021
This paper covers teaching a graduate thermodynamics class as a seminar and using improvisational activities to foster community and discussion. The paper includes the experience of piloting improvisational activities online to help foster community for an entirely virtual version of the thermodynamics seminar class. Improvisational activities…
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, COVID-19, Pandemics, Creative Activities
Gentry, Patrick – International Journal on E-Learning, 2023
The purpose of this study was to inform other science instructors and to determine what best practices in online learning are effective in developing a sense of community and support, through quality learner to learner, and learner to instructor interactions in an asynchronous, graduate biology course. An often-stated fact of e-learning is that…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Online Courses, Sense of Community
Laura Adele Soracco – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many historically underrepresented students enroll in online classes because they need the flexibility to balance work, family, and coursework (Phirangee et al., 2016). However, community college students are less successful in online classes than they are in face-to-face classes (Xu & Jaggars, 2014). Feelings of isolation and disconnectedness…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Online Courses, Course Descriptions, Case Studies
Cridland, Caitlin; Drape, Tiffany; Marine, Sasha; Gillaspy, Glenda – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2021
Like many institutions around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted us to shift our summer 2020 in-person undergraduate experiential learning program to a remote, virtual format. Here, we present our observations, summarized in 10 best practices, for moving a STEM-focused research experience for undergraduates, experiential learning program or…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, COVID-19
Fox, Brandi; Bearman, Margaret; Bellingham, Robin; North-Samardzic, Andrea; Scarparo, Simona; Taylor, Darci; Thomas, Mathew Krehl Edward; Volkov, Michael – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
This paper presents a reflexive analysis of how university educators experience the shift to increasing online teaching in 2019. We explore what it means to be an online educator in contemporary higher education and aim to raise questions about how we approach online education and understand ourselves as educators, informed by a sociomaterial…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Online Courses, Ethnography
Chang, Wei-Lun; Benson, Vladlena – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
This study explores a jigsaw-based learning method for collaboration on cloud platforms. We implement and test the method on a Masters course with 42 students from 17 countries. Regression analysis results revealed that the jigsaw method influenced individual learning in the group, usefulness of Google Classroom and slides influenced group…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Differences, Cooperative Learning