Expertise, Complexity, and Self-Regulated Engagement: Lessons from Teacher Reflection in a Blended Learning Environment

Mark Stevens

Journal of Online Learning Research Vol. 6, No. 3 (2020) pp. 177–200

Blended learning has been touted to have substantial benefits for both teachers and learners. Enacting blended instruction with students provides data and other information sources to support teacher reflection. However, reflective accounts from...

Parents? Perceptions of Teacher Support at a Cyber Charter High School

Jered Borup; Mark Stevens

Journal of Online Learning Research Vol. 2, No. 3 (December 2016) pp. 227–246

Despite high growth rates, cyber charter schools experience higher attrition rates than their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Students? reasons for failing an online course are complex and students may require a high level of teacher support to be...

Factors Influencing Teacher Satisfaction at an Online Charter School

Jered Borup; Mark Stevens

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1534–1541

The need for qualified teachers is increasing as teachers from the baby boom generation retire and student population grows. This need is especially heightened for online learning as student online enrollments grows rapidly. Not only does there...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Virtual Schooling, Development of Future Faculty

A Case Study of a Professional Learning Community in a Highly Diverse Blended School

Mark Stevens; Mary Rice

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 485–495

This paper reports on a study of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) consisting of four general education teachers, one special education teacher, and one English as a second language (ESL) teacher in a middle school with a highly diverse...

Topics: Instructional Design, Tools & Systems, Social & Cultural Issues

Parents? Perceptions of Teacher Engagement at a Cyber Charter High School

Jered Borup; Mark Stevens

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 577–581

Despite high growth rates, cyber charter schools experience higher attrition rates than their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Students? reasons for failing an online course are complex and students may require a high level of teacher support to be...

Topics: research

Inquiring into Presence as Support for Student Learning in a Blended Learning Classroom

Mark Stevens; Mary Rice

Journal of Online Learning Research Vol. 2, No. 4 (2016) pp. 447–473

In blended learning models, students do part of their coursework online and part in small groups with teachers in classrooms. The presence (teaching, cognitive, social) that teachers need to assert in blended environments has been the subject of...

Factors Influencing Teacher Satisfaction at an Online Charter School

Jered Borup; Mark A. Stevens

Journal of Online Learning Research Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 2016) pp. 3–22

As K-12 online programs mature, it is increasingly important that they work to retain their effective teachers. However, there is little research that had examined teacher satisfaction in K-12 online learning environments. Our analysis of 22...

Using student voice to examine teacher practices at a cyber charter high school

Jered Borup; Mark A. Stevens

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 48, No. 5 (September 2017) pp. 1119–1130

Efforts to identify K-12 online instructional best practices and standards have been limited because they largely ignored students’ voice—the primary stakeholder in any educational context. In this case study, we conducted 20 interviews among 10...

Preparing Social Studies Teachers and Librarians for Blended Teaching

Mark Stevens; Jered Borup; Michael K. Barbour

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 18, No. 4 (December 2018) pp. 648–669

Blended learning has grown rapidly in K-12 schools and is commonly seen as a potential vehicle to make learning more student centered by providing students with some level of control over their learning pace and path. As a result, blended learning...

Examining Parental Engagement at a Cyber High School

Jered Borup; Mark Stevens; Lisa Hasler Waters

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) p. 826

As enrollments in full-time online charter schools grow, it becomes increasingly important to understand how parents are engaging in their students’ learning. In this case study we addressed this gap using parent and student interviews at a full...

Topics: K-12 Online Learning

Parent and Student Perceptions of Parent Engagement at a Cyber Charter High School

Jered Borup; Mark A. Stevens; Lisa Hasler Waters

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 19, No. 5 (2015) pp. 69–91

As enrollments in cyber charter schools grow, it becomes increasingly important to understand how parents engage in their students' learning. Researchers have hypothesized that parental engagement is even more critical when online students learn...