Overview
- Encourages application and reflection through hands-on practice
- Draws from theory and research to recommend strategies for success
- Aligns with widely used student learning outcomes and objectives
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- college students at differing degree levels
- online non-traditional undergraduate student
- student learning outcomes
- student enrollment in online higher education programs
- student preparedness
- mechanisms of human agency
- academic and social integration at the course level
- students' writing skills
- student success in higher education
- student persistence
- online international student
- student application of theories and research
- students' technology skills
- Information literacy skills
- critical thinking and quantitative reasoning
- academic persistence in an online course
- student readiness
- student skill development
- online learning self-efficacy
- effective study skills
About this book
This book provides higher education students with a comprehensive resource to assist them in their academic persistence in an online course or program. It addresses a wide selection of topics emphasizing a myriad of factors that impact a student’s persistence, and ultimate success, in an online program or course. The book helps students to gain insight into the skills, knowledge, and attributes needed to succeed in the autonomous nature of an online learning environment. Thus, this book helps students to proactively engage in activities to prepare for online learning. Information presented in each chapter is drawn from theory and recent research centered on persistence of online students in higher education.
It incorporates hands-on practical activities to promote application of theory and research, and encourages students to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities through the use of reflective and thought-provoking activities. Hence, this book provides online students with an up-to-date resource they can use to develop an awareness of their readiness and preparedness for online learning. Additionally, this book equips students with information and strategies aimed at helping them to address gaps in their skills and knowledge that may present them with barriers to academic success. The content of this book is aligned with widely used student learning outcomes and objectives of first-year student seminar courses and orientation programs for graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in online programs. Furthermore, it is deliberately organized and structured to support an online student’s academic journey as they navigate the online learning environment. As such, these features make it an ideal book for use by students, instructors, and academic advisors or college and university academic support staff.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jacqueline S. Stephen has over twenty years of national and international experience in higher education. She is an Assistant
Professor, Director of The Office of Distance Learning, and Instructional Designer, in the College of Professional Advancement at Mercer University, USA. She has authored, co-authored, and edited peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on topics such as undergraduate and graduate online learner persistence, instructional design, educational technology, effective practices for online educators, and virtual peer mentoring for racial and ethnic minority women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). She has served as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and a U.S. Fulbright Specialist.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Academic Success in Online Programs
Book Subtitle: A Resource for College Students
Authors: Jacqueline S. Stephen
Series Title: Springer Texts in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54439-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54438-5Published: 03 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54439-2Published: 02 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2366-7672
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Education, general, Educational Psychology, Study and Learning Skills, Personal Development, Professional & Vocational Education