Examining the Teaching Styles of Online Instructors: A Proposed Research Study of Online Instructors At The University of Florida

Christopher Sessums

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 597–600

Because strategies, methods, and activities associated with learner-centered teaching style are lauded in distance education research, studies that assess the degree to which practitioners utilize this teaching style are significant. The purpose of...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Distance Education, Research Methods

The path from insight to action: The case of an online learning community in support of collaborative teacher inquiry

Christopher Davis Sessums

The path from insight to action: The case of an online@learning@community in support of collaborative teacher@inquiry (2009) pp. 1–163

Teacher professional development is a complex enterprise (Sprinthall, Reiman, and Thies-Sprinthall, 1996). While many online professional development programs have been introduced over the past several years that provide continuous, job-embedded...

Powerpoints to Podcasts: Students' Use of Web 2.0 in Course Assessments in Higher Education

Swapna Kumar; Christopher Sessums

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 2766–2771

Web 2.0 technologies are being increasingly used by faculty in higher education courses to engage a new generation of students. Course assessments, however, often comprise papers and exams, and course projects end with traditional presentations by...

A Call to Action for Research in Digital Learning: Learning without Limits of Time, Place, Path, Pace…or Evidence

Cathy Cavanaugh; Christopher Sessums; Wendy Drexler

Journal of Online Learning Research Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 2015) pp. 9–15

This essay is a call for rethinking our approach to research in digital learning. It plots a path founded in social trends and advances in education. A brief review of these trends and advances is followed by discussion of what flattened research...

Applying the community of inquiry framework to an online professional practice doctoral program

Swapna Kumar; Kara Dawson; Erik Black; Catherine Cavanaugh; Christopher Sessums

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 12, No. 6 (Sep 22, 2011) pp. 126–142

The community of inquiry (CoI) framework has commonly been used to study teaching and learning in online courses (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer 2000). This paper describes the implementation of the CoI framework in a cohort-based online EdD...