Raising the Bar: Encouraging High Level Thinking in Online Discussion Forums

Mary M. Christopher; Julie A. Thomas; Mary K. Tallent-Runnels

Roeper Review Vol. 26, No. 3 (2004)

More universities are offering online instruction for students though we know little about effective online learning. Some have found online instruction increases student participation while others have reported that students prefer the traditional...

A Successful Model of Collaborative Undergraduate Research: A Multi-Faculty, Multi-Project, Multi-Institution Team Approach

Julie A. Woodzicka; Thomas E. Ford; Abbie Caudill; Alyna Ohanmamooreni

Teaching of Psychology Vol. 42, No. 1 (January 2015) pp. 60–63

A collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation allowed the first two authors to provide students at primarily undergraduate institutions with a multi-faculty, multi-institution team research experience. Teams of undergraduate...

Topics: Faculty, Collaboration

The relationship between problems with technology and graduate students' evaluations of online teaching

Mary K. Tallent-Runnels; William Y. Lan; Wesley Fryer; Julie A. Thomas; Sandi Cooper; Kun Wang

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 8, No. 2 (2005) pp. 167–174

In this study the intent was to determine if the problems with technology that graduate students experience in online classes is related to their evaluations of their instructors. Participants included 131 graduate students in a College of Education....

Language: English

Teaching Courses Online: A Review of the Research

Mary K. Tallent-Runnels; Julie A. Thomas; William Y. Lan; Sandi Cooper; Terence C. Ahern; Shana M. Shaw; Xiaoming Liu

Review of Educational Research Vol. 76, No. 1 (2006) pp. 93–135

This literature review summarizes research on online teaching and learning. It is organized into four topics: course environment, learners' outcomes, learners' characteristics, and institutional and administrative factors. The authors found little...

The effect of social grounding on collaboration in a computer-mediated small group discussion

Terence C. Ahern; Julie A. Thomas; Mary K. Tallent-Runnels; William Y. Lan; Sandra Cooper; Xiaoming Lu; Jacqui Cyrus

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 9, No. 1 (2006) pp. 37–46

There is a tremendous amount of pressure on educators to incorporate highly advanced computer-mediated communication (CMC) into the classroom, but the research shows that this is not an easy task. Part of the difficulty learners experience within...

Language: English