This piece looks at the use of Twitter to share good practice among education professionals responding to the so-called 'pivot online': the sudden shift to online learning necessitated by the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. It presents a general overview on how Twitter provided a source of advice, ideas, and resources and how teachers shared…

Dental hygiene programs are challenging, and admission into the programs are competitive. Dental hygiene program admission committees utilize different mechanisms to select qualified student candidates. Many dental hygiene programs utilize in-person interviews, grade point average (GPA) from pre-requisite classes, and performance in science-based…

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of an online beginning yoga activity course on college students' well-being, specifically concerning their perceived stress, self-compassion, mindful awareness, and somatic awareness. The research questions were investigated through a quasi-experimental one-group embedded mixed-methods study.…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how a high school counselor's perceived self-efficacy impacts high school student advising sessions as it pertains to the student's program of study and course selection. The foundation of this study was grounded in Bandura's (1986) Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). This single case study was…

This dissertation examines how instructional designers navigate the daily challenges of their work as a group; how do they successfully respond to the changing demands of designing instruction for online learning; and replicate their work and practices in higher education context. This is accomplished by investigating the role of instructional…

Online education continues to grow exponentially, yet faculty acceptance of online teaching and learning has not. Decades of qualitative study indicate that a majority of faculty continue to regard online education as inferior to traditional classroom learning (Butler & Sellbom, 2002; Wilson & Stacey, 2004; Lloyd, et al., 2012; Ubell,…

Service-Learning is a form of experiential education and a teaching tool that can both enhance student learning outcomes and contribute to community goals. When this type of learning intersects with social justice education, or liberatory education, different types of student outcomes may arise; specifically, those contributing to the development…

In this study, the researcher explored how doctoral-level faculty engaged students in online courses. Institutions of higher education are incorporating online degree programs in their strategies and should understand how to prepare faculty, especially new faculty, for facilitating online courses for nontraditional students using the learning…

The purpose of this study was two-fold: to assess the current status of ethics education and to create a model ethics education curriculum for dental hygiene programs to address issues with current thinking in ethics education. To this end, the structure and sequence of randomly selected dental hygiene programs' ethics education curricula were…

Exploring student experiences at an online-only college after they had completed an undergraduate course facilitated by a teaching assistant (TA) was the purpose of this study. Specifically, this study asks "How do undergraduate students, studying at an online-only institution, describe their experiences in an online-only course that was…

Online learning in higher education has been increasing over the last two decades (NCES, 2016). Previous research has highlighted the importance of student engagement for academic achievement and performance (Fuller, Wilson, & Tobin, 2011; Northey et al., 2018). The current study aims to further understand students' perceptions of peer…

Understanding the factors that affect the professionalism for pharmacy students can enable pharmacy schools to make changes necessary to improve the professionalism performance of their students on APPE rotations. The changes can include what is taught during the didactic portion of the pharmacy program, through the offerings of interprofessional…

Gamification is an innovative teaching strategy that uses game elements in a non-game context. A gap in the literature existed regarding nurse educators' experiences implementing gamification in their online courses in Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs. The purpose of this basic qualitative inquiry was to explore the experiences of nurse…

Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced institutions of higher education into emergency remote teaching, journalism and mass communication schools were seeing increased enrollment in online courses. The professional nature of education in journalism and mass communication fields can create challenges for instructors to provide rigorous experiential…

In this study, I examine the integration of aesthetic education, specifically the visual arts and music, into secondary education history courses. Through aesthetic education, I argue, students can become emotionally connected to the past and can develop their historical literacy, which has implications for academic achievement in high school…