GMW 2014 Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award for “Räumchen wechsle dich – Eigenräume und Raumwechsel beim Aufbau einer Online Community of Practice”, a paper in German co-authored with Dr. Patricia Arnold at the Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft (GMW) 2014 conference in Zurich, Switzerland. This paper was about informal and formal learning spaces used to build a community…

Online program impact

Two recently published articles about measuring impact in online doctoral programs that highlight the ways in which doctoral students apply their learning to professional practice: The impact factor: A professional doctorate in Educational Technology co-authored with Dr. Kara Dawson in TechTrends, 58(4), 89-97 about the impact of an online doctoral program embedded in practice.  “A…

Journal of Online Doctoral Education

Invited article in inaugural issue of Journal of Online Doctoral Education “Quality Considerations in the Design and Implementation of Online Doctoral Programs“. The article describes one approach to designing and implementing an online doctoral program based on the Community of Inquiry framework (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000) and provides successful examples and data from the…