Educational Administration Students' Perceptions of Traditional vs. Online Instructional Delivery Formats

Paul E. Chapman; Sebastian R. Diaz; Lucas C. Moore; Pamela R. Deering

Journal on Excellence in College Teaching Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009) pp. 7–26

The authors investigated the perceptions of instructional delivery formats held by graduate students enrolled in a public school principal-preparation program. Two main research questions guided the study: How do students perceive the relative value ...

An Exploration of the Relationship between Indicators of the Community of Inquiry Framework and Retention in Online Programs

Wally Boston; Sebastian R. Diaz; Angela M. Gibson; Phil Ice; Jennifer Richardson; Karen Swan

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2010) pp. 3–19

As the growth of online programs continues to rapidly accelerate, concern over retention is increasing. Models for understanding student persistence in the face-to-face environment are well established, however, the many of the variables in these...

An Exploration of the Relationship between Indicators of the Community of Inquiry Framework and Retention in Online Programs

Wally Boston; Sebastian R. Diaz; Angela M. Gibson; Phil Ice; Jennifer Richardson; Karen Swan

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 13, No. 3 (October 2009) pp. 67–83

As the growth of online programs continues to rapidly accelerate, concern over retention is increasing. Models for understanding student persistence in the face-to-face environment are well established, however, the many of the variables in these...

Developing a community of inquiry instrument: Testing a measure of the Community of Inquiry framework using a multi-institutional sample

J.B. Arbaugh; Martha Cleveland-Innes; Sebastian R. Diaz; D. Randy Garrison; Philip Ice; Jennifer C. Richardson; Karen P. Swan

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) pp. 133–136

This article reports on the multi-institutional development and validation of an instrument that attempts to operationalize Garrison, Anderson and Archer's Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (2000). The results of the study suggest that the...

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