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Li Xu; Sheena Brown – Online Learning, 2024
Online education has grown and continues to expand, driven by innovative information and communication technologies that facilitate effective interactions both within and outside the online classroom. Post-traditional students with diverse and complex identities face unique challenges in establishing connections within online learning environments…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, Self Concept
Antionette Marie Stith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In cyber charter schools, middle-school students face many barriers to developing STEM identity. My theory of improvement was to address sense of belonging in a large virtual classroom to develop STEM identity in my students. By utilizing diverse STEM role models that reflected my students' racial or ethnic identities and an inquiry-based approach…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Role Models, Self Concept, Charter Schools
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Ahran Koo; Kyungeun Lim; Borim Song – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2024
This study examines belonging pedagogy as an effective, culturally respectful intervention in art education. Art education faculty members at three institutions collaborated and organized virtual workshops to broaden the scope of diversity and promote online community building. Culturally sensitive and inclusive education and pedagogy of belonging…
Descriptors: Art Education, Sense of Community, Educational Practices, Electronic Learning
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Staci Ann Gilpin; Stephanie Rollag Yoon; Jana LoBello Miller – Online Learning, 2023
This qualitative study aims to improve accessibility and equity in digital spaces by identifying the prevalent mismatch between online course design, student culture, and its connection to instructional design for teacher preparation programs. Utilizing feminist theory, we explore the intersection between community, identity, and learning within…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Teacher Education, Community
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McLay, Katherine Frances; Renshaw, Peter David – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article examines young people's sense of self and collective identity in relation to their use of specific digital tools available at their school. We use membership categorisation analysis (MCA) to explore how a group of young people produce a collective identity-in-interaction as captured in concrete relational speech acts. Fine-grained MCA…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Self Concept, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices
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Jillian L. Wendt; Vivian O. Jones – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2024
Purpose: Racially and ethnically minoritized (REM) women continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs and careers. Peer mentoring is one strategy that can support their participation. This study explores the experiences of Black women peer mentors in an online peer mentoring program at two…
Descriptors: College Students, Blacks, African American Students, Females
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Nathan A. Quarderer; Leah Wasser; Anne U. Gold; Patricia Montaño; Lauren Herwehe; Katherine Halama; Emily Biggane; Jessica Logan; David Parr; Sylvia Brady; James Sanovia; Charles Jason Tinant; Elisha Yellow Thunder; Justina White Eyes; LaShell Poor Bear/Bagola; Madison Phelps; Trey Orion Phelps; Brett Alberts; Michela Johnson; Nathan Korinek; William Travis; Naomi Jacquez; Kaiea Rohlehr; Emily Ward; Elsa Culler; R. Chelsea Nagy; Jennifer Balch – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2025
Today's data-driven world requires earth and environmental scientists to have skills at the intersection of domain and data science. These skills are imperative to harness information contained in a growing volume of complex data to solve the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Despite the importance of these skills, Earth and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Earth Science, Environmental Education, Science Education
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Gao, Jie; Zhao, Bo; Xiong, Ying; Gan, Jianhou – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
The emotional participation of online learning is a process-oriented emotional indicator that measures learners' learning effects. Existing studies have shown there is little research on online-learning emotional participation, and even fewer have studied the online learning participation of ethnic college students. In order to study the online…
Descriptors: Design, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Minority Group Students
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Amy K. Dunbar-Wallis; Jennifer Katcher; Wendy Moore; Lisa A. Corwin – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
"Bee the CURE" is a Power-of-Place course-based undergraduate research experience (PoP-CUREs; Jaeger et al., 2024) that combines place-based education (Demarest, 2014; Gruenewald, 2014) with CUREs, emphasizing student "scientific" civic engagement where research is relevant to the community where the research is taking place.…
Descriptors: Student Research, Self Efficacy, Science Education, Self Concept
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Jeremy Price; Je' Nobia Smith; Alexandria Fox – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2023
Drawing on transformative, critical, and culturally responsive and sustaining traditions of pedagogy and instructional design, we present a technology-focused framework for decentering normative forces along the lines of race, ethnicity, class, language, religion, ability, sex, and gender in online higher education learning spaces that honors each…
Descriptors: Models, Diversity, Transformative Learning, Instructional Design
Rene F. Kizilcec – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Psychological threats to people's social identity and sense of belonging can undermine motivation and performance in in-person learning environments. I argue that these social psychological processes can also apply in technology-mediated environments and limit the potential of online environments to provide more affordable, personalized, and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Electronic Learning, Inclusion, Self Concept
Na Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2019
With the advancement of technology, more and more degree programs are available in the form of online education. Despite its top ranking in online bachelor's degree programs, Pennsylvania State University's World Campus presents a variety of challenges and opportunities related to students' experiences, feelings, and operation as a…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Educational Environment
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Delaney, Lorraine; Brown, Mark – Distance Education, 2018
This paper argues that dual mode provision has a critical role to play in widening participation. The mixed methods study drew on institutional records, an online survey (n = 126) and 17 semi-structured interviews to explore the participation experience of a group of distance graduates (n = 268) from a dual mode university. Derived from the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Universities, Blended Learning