Using Quality Assurance Strategies for Online Programs

Judy Lee; Charles Dziuban

AACE Journal Vol. 10, No. 2 (2002) pp. 69–78

Quality assurance strategies in university distance education programs are fundamental if those initiatives are to succeed. This article organizes a quality assessment design around five components: administrative leadership and support, ongoing ...

Topics: Distance Education

A course is a course is a course: Factor invariance in student evaluation of online, blended and face-to-face learning environments

Charles Dziuban; Patsy Moskal

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 14, No. 4 (September 2011) pp. 236–241

The authors compared the underlying student response patterns to an end-of-course rating instrument for large student samples in online, blended and face-to-face courses. For each modality, the solution produced a single factor that accounted for...

Language: English

Technology: Servant or Master of the Online Teacher?

Ransford C. Pyle; Charles D. Dziuban

Library Trends Vol. 50, No. 1 (2001) pp. 130–44

Discusses the necessity for making teaching and learning needs take precedence over being driven by technological advances on the Internet and the World Wide Web and proposes three different formats for utilizing the Web in online and classroom...

The Sloan-C Pillars and Boundary Objects As a Framework for Evaluating Blended Learning

Mark Laumakis; Charles Graham; Chuck Dziuban

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 13, No. 1 (April 2009) pp. 75–87

The authors contend that blended learning represents a boundary object; a construct that brings together constituencies from a variety of backgrounds with each of these cohorts defining the object somewhat differently. The Sloan-C Pillars (learning ...

Blended learning: A dangerous idea?

Patsy Moskal; Charles Dziuban; Joel Hartman

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 18, No. 1 (July 2013) pp. 15–23

The authors make the case that implementation of a successful blended learning program requires alignment of institutional, faculty, and student goals. Reliable and robust infrastructure must be in place to support students and faculty. Continuous...

Language: English

How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy

George Lorenzo; Diana Oblinger; Charles Dziuban

Educause Quarterly Vol. 30, No. 1 (2007) pp. 6–12

The vast amount of readily available information is just one reason for transforming the way in conducting research and acquiring knowledge. The nature of information itself has changed. In text and other formats, information is not just created by...

The Unknown Unknowns: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations for Graduate Students from the Perspective of Postsecondary Administration

Debbie Hahs-Vaughn; Charles Dziuban; Cynthia Young

International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology Vol. 6, No. 4 (October 2015) pp. 19–29

Graduate education is influenced by trends and events that are political, economic, social, technological, and demographic. These materialize into challenges and opportunities for graduate students, an overview of these is provided in the paper...

Student satisfaction with online learning in the presence of ambivalence: Looking for the will-o'-the-wisp

Charles Dziuban; Patsy Moskal; Lauren Kramer; Jessica Thompson

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 17, No. 1 (April 2013) pp. 1–8

The authors contend that ambivalence students feel toward online courses modifies the dimensionality by which they evaluate their learning experiences. The data from this study show that as student ambivalence increases, so do the number of elements ...

Language: English

Student Satisfaction with Asynchronous Learning

Charles Dziuban; Patsy Moskal; Jay Brophy; Peter Shea

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 11, No. 1 (April 2007) pp. 87–95

The authors discuss elements that potentially impact student satisfaction with asynchronous learning: the media culture, digital, personal and mobile technologies, student learning preferences, pedagogy, complexities of measurement, and the digital...

Adaptive Learning in Psychology: Wayfinding in the Digital Age

Charles D. Dziuban; Patsy D. Moskal; Jeffrey Cassisi; Alexis Fawcett

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 20, No. 3 (2016) pp. 74–96

This paper presents the results of a pilot study investigating the use of the Realizeit adaptive learning platform to deliver a fully online General Psychology course across two semesters. Through mutual cooperation, UCF and vendor (CCKF)...

The People Unite: Learning Meaningful Civics Online

Annette Boyd Pitts; Charles Dziuban; Jeffrey W. Cornett

Social Education Vol. 75, No. 3 (2011) pp. 160–163

Throughout the world, today's students are being characterized as digital natives, the "net generation." This twenty-first-century student cohort is adept at multi-tasking and at using a variety of tools and resources including electronic search...

Analytics that Inform the University: Using Data You Already Have

Charles Dziuban; Patsy Moskal; Thomas Cavanagh; Andre Watts

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 16, No. 3 (June 2012) pp. 21–38

The authors describe the University of Central Florida's top-down/bottom-up action analytics approach to using data to inform decision-making at the University of Central Florida. The top-down approach utilizes information about programs, modalities,...

Adaptive Learning in Psychology: Wayfinding in the Digital Age

Charles Dziuban; Patsy Moskal; Jeffrey Cassisi; Alexis Fawcett

Online Learning Journal Vol. 20, No. 3 (Jul 08, 2016)

This paper presents the results of a pilot study investigating the use of the Realizeit adaptive learning platform to deliver a fully online General Psychology course across two semesters. Through mutual cooperation, UCF and vendor (CCKF)...

Faculty 2.0

Joel L. Hartman; Charles Dziuban; James Brophy-Ellison

EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 42, No. 5 (2007) pp. 62–64

Much has been written recently about the Net Generation--the generation (roughly twelve to twenty-five years old) that makes up the majority of students attending U.S. colleges and universities--but relatively little attention has been given to the...

A Web-Based Survey System for Distributed Learning Impact Evaluation

Morgan C Wang; Charles D Dziuban; Patsy D Moskal

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 2, No. 4 (2000) pp. 211–220

The authors describe a Web-based survey system developed for evaluating distributed learning at the University of Central Florida. Results from data collection, data validation, and survey results analyses are incorporated into a participation...

Language: English

Student Satisfaction with Online Learning: Is It a Psychological Contract?

Charles Dziuban; Patsy Moskal; Jessica Thompson; Lauren Kramer; Genevieve DeCantis; Andrea Hermsdorfer

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 19, No. 2 (March 2015)

The authors explore the possible relationship between student satisfaction with online learning and the theory of psychological contracts. The study incorporates latent trait models using the image analysis procedure and computation of Anderson and...

Adaptive Learning: A Stabilizing Influence across Disciplines and Universities

Charles Dziuban; Patsy Moskal; Liza Parker; Maria Campbell; Colm Howlin; Connie Johnson

Online Learning Vol. 22, No. 3 (2018) pp. 7–39

This study represents an adaptive learning partnership among the University of Central Florida, Colorado Technical University, and the adaptive learning provider Realizeit. A 13-variable learning domain for students forms the basis of a component...

Student Satisfaction with Online Learning: Is it a Psychological Contract?

Charles Dziuban; Patsy Moskal; Jessica Thompson; Lauren Kramer; Genevieve DeCantis; Andrea Hermsdorfer

Online Learning Journal Vol. 19, No. 2 (Feb 13, 2015)

The authors explore the possible relationship between student satisfaction with online learning and the theory of psychological contracts. The study incorporates latent trait models using the image analysis procedure and computation of Anderson and...