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Is The Quality Of (Online) Courses Significantly Improved Through Professional Development Of Faculty? Student Perceptions
Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; David Freitas
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 199–203
The Digital Learning Faculty Certificate Program at Purdue University Calumet is a cohort-based mentoring program designed to support and assist faculty as they develop an online or a digitally-enhanced course. Results from previous research studies ...
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Mentoring University Faculty to become High Quality Online Educators: A Program Evaluation
Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Janet Buckenmeyer; Lori Feldman
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 14, No. 4 (2011)
This study summarizes the results of a program evaluation of the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP), an ongoing initiative at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana (USA) designed to enhance the development of online courses by mentoring...
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The Impact of Previous Online Course Experience RN Students' Perceptions of Quality
Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Penny Ralston-Berg; Janet Buckenmeyer
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 20, No. 1 (2016) pp. 25–40
The purpose of this paper is to explore whether experienced online students (who have completed seven or more online courses) perceive the quality of their courses differently than novice online students (who have completed three or fewer online...
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Assessing the Impact of Faculty Development for Online Instructors
Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 672–681
This study summarizes the results of a program evaluation of the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP), an ongoing initiative at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana (USA) designed to enhance the development of online courses by mentoring...
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Does Participating in an Online Course Development Program
Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2387–2390
There seems to be much anecdotal evidence that many faculty members do experience shifts in pedagogical beliefs after successfully developing and teaching an online course. Some anecdotal accounts have been published in the professional literature; ...
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Wanted: Quality Online Instructors and Courses? Try this Successful Mentoring Model
Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman; David Freitas
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 921–926
If you are looking to design and implement a program that produces successful online faculty teaching effective online courses, then this session is for you. A proven, four-stage model for preparing and certifying higher education faculty to create...
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Online Course Quality: What Do Nontraditional Students Value?
Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Penny Ralston-Berg; Janet Buckenmeyer
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 19, No. 4 (2016)
This study analyzes nontraditional students' perceptions of online course quality. Students were categorized into three groups: traditional, moderately nontraditional, and highly nontraditional. A survey instrument designed to assess online course...
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Does Participation In A Faculty Distance Education Mentoring Program Comprehensively Improve Teaching Methods?
Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 12, No. 2 (March 2013) pp. 139–152
The Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP) is an initiative designed to assist faculty in learning the technology and instructional design principles necessary to develop and teach quality online courses. This paper describes the results of a...
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Beyond the early adopters of online instruction: Motivating the reluctant majority
Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman; Heather Zamojski
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 15, No. 2 (March 2012) pp. 102–107
Now that most of the innovators and early adopters of online instruction are comfortably teaching online, many institutions are facing challenges as they prepare the next wave of online instructors. This research study examines how faculty in this ...
Language: English
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Assessment of a University-Based Distance Education Mentoring Program from a Quality Management Perspective
Casimir Barczyk; Janet Buckenmeyer; Lori Feldman; Emily Hixon
Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2011) pp. 5–24
This study describes assessment results from the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP) at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana, USA. The program, sponsored by the university's Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, was made available to all...
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Technology's Role in Learning at a Commuter Campus: The Student Perspective
Janet A. Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Emily Hixon; Heather Zamojski; Annette Tomory
Journal of Further and Higher Education Vol. 40, No. 3 (2016) pp. 412–431
Patterns of technology ownership and usage, as well as skills with and preferences for various technologies, affect the college experience (Educause 2012). Students at a commuter campus of a large Midwestern public university were surveyed about...