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Tracia Forman and Jessica Sanchez, UTRGV
Presentation given at the Texas Digital Learning Annual Association Conference 2022, Galveston, TX
Increased online enrollment has results in the use of supplementary instructional support to enhance effective course delivery. Use of an instructional team approach plays an invaluable role in student success.
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Academic Coaches and Student Success in Higher Education.
Published in the Journal for Distance Education. May 31, 2023.
(2023) Academic Coaches and Student Success in Higher Education, American Journal of Distance Education, DOI: 10.1080/08923647.2023.2210491
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08923647.2023.2210491
Here is a .pdf of the partial findings of this research that were presented at the North American Management Society virtual conference. The principle investigators are completing their research study and we will supply a full report in Q4 2021.
Dr. Suyoung Park and her colleague Dr. Petra Robinson at Louisiana State University researched the performance levels of graduate students and the support that graduate students receive when they interact with academic coaches in intensive online courses. They looked at students in three different online courses. Among their findings was the overarching ethos that academic coaches provide an effective framework for student support.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette recently had an article published in the Journal of Teaching and Learning in Nursing, entitled “Determining roles and best practices when using Academic Coaches in online learning.” The article acknowledges the continued growth of online learning and identifies the role that academic coaches maintain in an online learning environment, and highlights best practices when using academic coaches in an accelerated online course.
Teaching and Learning in Nursing. Official Journal of the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing. Volume 15, Issue 4. In progress (October 2020). This issue is in progress but contains articles that are final and fully citable.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1557308720300482?via%3Dihub
Louisiana State University Shreveport, presents early research findings on academic coaching at international ICONSES Conference. https://www.2019.iconses.net/fulltext/pdf/IConSES050.pdf
The peer reviewed Journal of Nursing Education recently published an article from the University of Texas at Arlington regarding the characteristics of coaches in accelerated online courses. The article researches the demographic composition of academic coaches in RN-to-BSN programs and examines the associations between coaching experience, years of licensure, and level of education and evaluations by faculty and students. The results were positive showing that academic coaches assist in providing a high quality educational experience for students and support to faculty.
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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette recently had an article published in the Journal of Teaching and Learning in Nursing, entitled “Use of academic coaches to promote student success in online nursing programs.” The article highlights the benefits of using academic coaches in courses to meet the needs of students in their nursing program.
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