Upcoming Presentations

2025 Innovations Conference

Month 9–12, 2025
San Antonio, TX

Beyond Engagement: Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Learning Online

March 11, 2025 | 10:15–11:15 AM CT
Grand Hyatt San Antonio Riverwalk; Republic A-C, Fourth Floor

Students and faculty both encounter challenges in the online environment. These challenges frequently manifest and are understood in terms of low student engagement. In this session, researchers and community college faculty will present a specific and actionable framework to bolster students’ abilities to remain motivated and manage their learning processes in online courses. The presenters refer to these mutually reinforcing mindsets and behaviors as self-directed learning (SDL) skills and they include motivational processes (e.g., self-efficacy), metacognitive processes (e.g., planning), and applied learning processes (e.g., help seeking). Presenters will describe a set of evidence-based instructional strategies to support SDL developed in collaboration with instructors at broad-access institutions. Speakers will share research findings on how the strategies have been implemented in postsecondary online STEM courses and their effect on student outcomes. A community college faculty member will share their experience implementing the strategies in an online biology course.

Presenters

Ellen Wasserman, Research Associate, CCRC

Allystair Jones, Department Chair, Science & Professor of Biology, Odessa College

Hannah Cheever, Technical Assistance Provider and Education Researcher, SRI Education

From “Additive” to “Integrative”: Research on Designing and Teaching Integrated Reading and Writing

Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education (CADE)
June 15, 2017
Denver, CO

This presentation featured findings from research on the experiences of faculty members in the midst of a statewide reform effort to integrate developmental reading and writing. Two approaches to course design were discussed, as well as their implications for faculty professional development and selecting curricular materials.

Associated Papers

Participants

Research Associate
Community College Research Center

Associated Project(s)