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Faculty Leadership in Online Education: Structuring Courses to Impact Student Satisfaction and Persistence
With an increasing number of online courses, many faculty members who are inexperienced in online teaching are being asked to teach in an online environment. This author's position is that faculty leadership through curriculum structuring can have a significant impact on student motivation, satisfaction, and persistence in online courses. After a discussion of what initially motivates students in online courses and a discussion of factors that maintain motivation, the topic of online community is examined. Ways in which faculty can purposely design curriculum to encourage student motivation and facilitate student involvement in the online community are discussed.
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Journal-Article
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 16, 2014
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- July 16, 2014
- Author:
- Jeannine Kranzow, Azusa Pacific University
- Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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- Adobe reader or web browser
- Language:
- English
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- No
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
