
Mary I. DereshiwskyNorthern Arizona University | NAU
Mary I. Dereshiwsky
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Abstract: Deans, associate deans, and department chairs in higher education institutions manage not
only their departments’ course offerings but also faculty and students who teach and learn both in
person and online. Possessing a good understanding of how to plan, supervise, and evaluate online
degree programs for maximum efficiency, optimum stude...
Online learning communities are an important aspect of successful virtual learning experiences. They bring opportunities for peer collaboration and sharing of ideas in a globally based classroom unrestricted by time and space. At the same time, online learning community participants may face some challenges of effective communication and collaborat...
Resilience is a key life success trait that can spell the distinction in success or failure of learning experiences for students. The online classroom is characterized by some unique challenges regarding student resilience. These challenges, as well as prospective strategies to overcome them, will be specifically discussed in the areas of technolog...
Online learning communities are an important aspect of successful virtual learning experiences. They bring opportunities for peer collaboration and sharing of ideas in a globally based classroom unrestricted by time and space. At the same time, online learning community participants may face some challenges of effective communication and collaborat...
Online learning has become a ubiquitous feature of instructional programming in institutions from middle school through post-secondary education. As of 2013, over 80% of U.S. research institutions offered online coursework.
Few readers would argue that online learning provides some benefits over in-person instruction, both for the learner, and fo...
Online learning communities are an important aspect of successful virtual learning experiences. They bring opportunities for peer collaboration and sharing of ideas in a globally based classroom unrestricted by time and space. At the same time, online learning community participants may face some challenges of effective communication and collaborat...
Resilience is a key life success trait that can spell the distinction in success or failure of learning experiences for students. The online classroom is characterized by some unique challenges regarding student resilience. These challenges, as well as prospective strategies to overcome them, will be specifically discussed in the areas of technolog...
This chapter focuses on issues of equity of access, participation, and performance assessment of adult learners in the online classroom. Areas of focus include enrollment, discussion participation, collaborative peer activities, evaluation of assignments, and meeting the needs of students with disabilities. Specific current inequities in the tradit...
The online classroom is arguably the defi ning innovation of twenty-fi rst century instruction. It allows for maximum fl exibility in the learning experience. No longer are teachers and students tied down to the same fi xed day, time and place to all study together as in the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom. Instead, students have far more di...
This paper presents the results of a study assessing the comparative effectiveness of teaching an undergraduate intermediate accounting course in the online classroom format. Students in a large state university were offered an opportunity to complete the first course in intermediate accounting either online or on-campus. Students were required to...
During the decade of the 1990s, the rapidly changing ethnic composition of our schools and workplace, especially in the hospitality industry, required that attention be given to curriculum content and methods of instruction to accommodate increasing numbers of minority students and employees. Most institutions, including hospitality programs, imple...
Teaching online is relatively new at Chicago State University (CSU). In this paper, twenty-four instructors who taught web-based, or web-enhanced courses during the spring and fall 2003 semesters CSU were surveyed about issues that they and their students had experienced in online communication. It was found that online learning was quickly develop...
Classroom teachers have the best possible vantage point for constructing locally appropriate surveys and tests; the fact is, however, that teachers tend to rely on nationally mass-produced and marketed test packages. The purpose of this paper is to present a procedure for developing and refining teacher-made surveys and tests, which would be valid...
The purpose of this study was to Investigate client factors related to the success or failure of American Indians in the Navajo Vocational Rehabilitation Project (NVRP). Previous information from rehabilitation service providers, including both state and Indian vocational rehabilitation project staff, indicated that there were barriers to service d...
This report on the third year of evaluation of the Arizona career ladder research and evaluation project indicates that to a high degree, project requirements are being realized; the study is clearly determining if teachers' professional careers and instructional performance activities are enhanced by the system, and what effects these developments...
This study investigated both quantitative and qualitative differences between subjects with and without learning disabilities (LD) across three grade levels on two tasks requiring active processing of story grammar. There was no evidence, for either task, of developmental differences in relation to either story comprehension or production. However,...
The focus-group interview format was used to investigate the existence, interrelationship, perceived strengths, and indicators of insufficiency in the implementation of the Career Ladders (CL) teacher-incentive program in a rural Arizona school district. Two interviews were planned for each of the following groups: school board members; CL Steering...
This document reports on an assessment of the 5-year Arizona Career Ladders Pilot-Test Teacher Incentive Program. Research and evaluation of the program were conducted in the 14 presently participating districts. A model was developed of essential organizational components which must be functioning at healthy levels for effective operation. The com...
This paper presents research findings concerning the Career Ladder pilot test program in Arizona. The program is designed to reward and motivate teachers based on performance. One of the program's key features is the flexibility and innovation allowed to participating districts in their individual development of program designs and structures. An e...
Reprint of the 1985 ed. Publisher's no.: 8517097. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts, 1985. Includes bibliographical references.