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Christopher Sessums
University of Florida
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...