Carol Richmond

Learning Persistence and Success in Online Courses

An Appreciative Paradigm of Learning Persistence and Success in Online Courses

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Produktbeschreibung

There is a need for a better understanding of persistence in online environments from a positive perspective.The appreciative inquiry model challenges the traditional problem based paradigm with an affirmative approach to embrace challenges in a positive light.This study uses an appreciative inquiry approach to grounded theory analysis to study online learning persistence and success.The purpose of this qualitative grounded theory study was firstly to discover the themes and factors that emerge from an appreciative inquiry of online learner persistence;secondly to identify the meaning of persistence for online students;thirdly to create provocative propositions of the construct of learning persistence and success in online courses;and finaly to generate a theory of learning persistence and success in online courses.Through face-to-face and online interviews,thirty students in five online courses at Central New Mexico Community College participated in the study which led to identifying three categories,eight themes and thirty-six learning persistence and success factors.The study offers and appreciative paradigm of online persistence and online transformational learning processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9783838318721
• ISBN-10: 3838318722
• Artikelnr.: 27892511

Autorenporträt

Carol Anger Richmond received her B.A. in Sociology at the Assumption College, Worcester,Massachusetts in 1975.Shen got her M.S in Educational Leadership at the Wheelock College, Massachusetts in 1976. She also worked for a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies at the University of New Mexico in 2007.