Teaching Academic Success Strategies to Online and Distance Education Transfer Students

Session Description
Undergraduate transfer students are those that transition from one institution of higher education to another before earning their bachelor’s degree. Transfer students are often non-traditional in terms of their age, race, veteran status, family, and employment status. They also see higher attrition rates in distance learning programs. This presentation will describe a Ph.D. (instructional systems & learning technologies) student’s efforts to teach and develop an online 1-credit course on academic success for online and distance learning transfer students that are struggling academically at a 4-year institution. This online course features both asynchronous and synchronous activities such as video-based lectures, teacher-student conferences, discussion boards, journal writing activities and more.
Presenter(s)
Dawn Adolfson
Dawn Adolfson, Florida State University, FL
Dawn Adolfson is a doctoral student at Florida State University studying instructional systems and learning technologies. Her research interests are in transfer student success, distance education, and transactional distance.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
Novice, Intermediate

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Exploring Emojis in Higher Education: A Meta-Synthesis

Session Description
Emojis have become a standard way to express tone and intention when communicating digitally. The use of emojis has become so prevalent in digital culture that, in the United States, you can order a pizza by texting an emoji to Dominos (“Anyware,” 2019). Emjois are a new form of digital literacy students must learn to read and use effectively in all areas of their lives. How then, have emojis seeped into higher education, specifically, online higher education? This session presents a meta-synthesis of the research on how emojis are used in higher education. It also covers how emojis potentially affect communication between student and professor. Lastly, it will discuss how professors can prepare students for appropriate use of emojis in their professional lives.
Presenter(s)
Jessica Love
Jessica Love, Purdue University Global, IO

Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
Intermediate

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