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Student & Instructor Perceptions

Students and instructors appreciate the access provided by online learning, but they also identify particular challenges of online teaching and learning.
Orona, Li, McPartlan, Bartek, & Xu (2020).  Surveying online interaction: Relating college instructor characteristics and perceptions to online practices. [paper]

​Zhou, X., Li., Q., & Xu, D. What Makes a Successful Online Learner?:  Community College Students’ Perceptions of Online Learning Strategies. (Working paper)

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Li, Q., Zhou, X., Bostian, B., & Xu, D. How Can We Improve Online Learning at Community Colleges?: Voices from Online Instructors and Students. [paper] 

Umarji, O., McPartlan, P., Li, Q., & Eccles, J. (2019). The carrot or the stick: The role of regret, satisfaction, and motivation in pursuit of daily academic goals in an online course. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. [paper]

Zhou, N., Fischer, C., Rodriguez, F., Warschauer, M, & King, S. (2019). Exploring how enrolling in an online organic chemistry preparation course relates to students' self-efficacy. Journal of Computing in Higher Education. [paper]

Choi, H., Dowell, N. M., Brooks, C., & Teasley, S. D. (2019). Social comparison in MOOCs: Perceived SES, opinion, and message formality. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Learning Analytics & Knowledge (pp. 160-169). [link][paper]

McPartlan, P., & Rutherford, T. (2018, April). Are our measures offline? Critiquing measures of motivation in online courses. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY. [paper]

Choi, H., Dowell, N. M., & Brooks, C. (2018). Social comparison theory as applied to MOOC student writing: Constructs for opinion and ability. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference for the Learning Sciences. [link]

McPartlan, P., Rutherford, T., Rodriguez, F., Shaffer, J. (2017, August). Modality motivation: Assessing motivational differences in online and face-to-face students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association Conference. Washington, DC. (Best Graduate Student Poster) [paper]
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