Parents and students have a number of growing options to choose from when it comes to their educational settings in most states. One growing educational option is online education (Hasler-Waters et al., 2014). With distance learning growing in recent years, more research is needed involving this educational platform (Hasler-Waters, et. al. 2014).…

This capstone is an exploration of an online learning environment for teachers to receive professional learning at any time, anywhere. The focus of this capstone was to design a series of self-paced, asynchronous learning courses to help teachers implement one-to-one Chromebooks in the Fayette County Public School District. Additionally, the…

During March of 2020, a novel strain of the Coronavirus began to close college campuses across the United States. But the teaching and learning did not stop, even though faculty and students were sent home to engage in remote teaching in order to avoid accelerating the spread of the pandemic on their campuses. In this study, interviews were…

This two-part study used Ecological Systems Theory to explore college readiness of dual enrollment students across online, high school, and college campus settings. First, a causal-comparative study was used to examine if and to what extent dual enrollment students' perceptions of college readiness differed depending on course location, and a…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine teacher perception of changes in the instructional delivery and learning opportunities via technology during and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 until May 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected educational organizations. School closures in March 2020 forced teachers to…

Serious games are computer games with a primary purpose of educating or training while also entertaining. Literature has established that serious games can enhance learning in the classroom and improve student engagement. However, few studies have analyzed the factors that inhibit the adoption of serious games. The current study extends research…

This study aims to examine the students' loyalty to an online practicum course for hospitality education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Premised on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), we adopted a revised model consisting of Information System Success Model and Expectancy Confirmation Theory (ECT) to ascertain the students'…

The purpose of this study was to investigate novice undergraduate instructors' perceived readiness for online teaching in higher education. This study explored technological and pedagogical readiness and the use of university supports and resources. It broadened Martin, Budhrani, and Wang's study (2019) to include feedback on professional…

Online education is a relatively new manifestation in academia and as such, there are still many gaps in the knowledge of how to transfer face-to-face components of a classroom to the online platform. One of these gaps is how to encourage instructor-student relationships when the online platform is by nature anonymous. It can be difficult to…

This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) reviews the state of online learning at the University of Delaware (UD). UD lacks the sufficient infrastructure and resources to support online learning, despite its steady growth in online enrollments over the past decade. This growth was punctuated with a spike in online enrollments due to the pivot to…

This dissertation describes the impacts that higher education faculty members' epistemological beliefs, pedagogical approaches, and the course delivery mode of what they teach has on their use of learning management systems (LMSs). Specifically, this research reflects on how these constructs impact how often tools within the LMS, Blackboard Learn,…

This study explores the experience of Generation X women who play casual video games on mobile devices (e. g., smartphones and tablets), and draws connections to learning and literacy, particularly in the areas of New Literacies, the New Literacy Studies, and semiotic literacy. Data was gathered from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with five…

This case presents the design and assessment (at the Interaction level) of a student chronic condition e-learning module. The module is to be used by school nurses as a traditional presentation aid/slideshow to support their on-ground trainings for afterschool staff on how to manage students with chronic health conditions participating in…

The literature has shown that although, individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to be excluded from sexual health education (Davies & Dubie, 2012). A lack of adequate sex education puts them at risk for negative factors. The literature has shown that intense and proper education usually does not take place until the individual…

Understanding equivalence is fundamental to STEM disciplines, yet misunderstandings and misconceptions inhibit students from fully appreciating or leveraging the concept. Using the game-based algebraic notation system, From Here to There! (FH2T), students explore ideas of equivalence by dynamically transforming expressions or equations among…