Creating a Successful Online Graduate Journal: Mentoring was the Key

Mentoring online graduate students: partners in scholarship

Mentoring graduate students toward scholarly research and writing activities has become an important area of focus for faculty at the Centre for Nursing and Health Studies at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. With an emphasis on teaching excellence, instructors seek out and create experiences to involve graduate students in their own programme of research and publication. However, despit...

Creating and implementing successful online learning environments: a practitioner perspective

Introducing CMC into the Media Mix Developing CMC Competence Staged Development Creating the On-Screen Environment Ideal Numbers and timing of moderator interventions Creating Effective On-screen Environments Conclusions References Abstract This paper is about how we attempted to overcome barriers to the use of Computer Mediated Conferencing (CMC) for effective learning in Open University Busin...

Building successful mentoring relationships.

Mentoring Relationships 1 (in press). Journal of Primary Prevention Running head: Mentoring relationships Promoting successful youth mentoring relationships: A preliminary screening questionnaire

Youth mentoring programs are an increasingly popular intervention, and although successful mentoring relationships can promote a range of positive developmental outcomes, relationships that fail can lead to decrements in a youth’s functioning and selfesteem. The present research develops and validates a youth mentoring relationship quality inventory, based on data from a national evaluation of ...

Creating Online Graduate Engineering Degrees at the University of New Mexico

This paper describes the motivation, strategies, and implementation details that lead to the creation of online graduate-level degree programs in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. It also presents some of the benefits as well as the challenges encountered when designing and implementing these programs. The paper concludes with a discussion of l...