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Effectively Incorporate Civic Education in the Online Environment: Findings from a Research Study
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, , College of Education, The University of Alabama, United States

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Las Vegas, NV, United States ISBN 978-1-939797-13-1 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA

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The importance of civic education in higher education curriculum has been a constant through many educational reforms. With academia moving into the 21st century and online education increasing to about 34% of all enrollment (Allen & Seaman, 2014) it is imperative that new pedagogical methods be developed to provide quality civic education to higher education students. This paper and subsequent presentation detail the results of a dissertation research study, which sought to discover descriptive data on practical applications of effective civic education pedagogy in the online environment. Additionally it provides implications and recommendations for how these descriptive data can be used to transform and improve the incorporation of civic education into the online environment.

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Odom-Bartel, R. & Wright, V. (2015). Effectively Incorporate Civic Education in the Online Environment: Findings from a Research Study. In D. Rutledge & D. Slykhuis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2015--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 428-435). Las Vegas, NV, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved January 29, 2023 from .

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