Community Development within an Online Doctoral Cohort: A Qualitative Case Study

• In Event: DDL- Community Connections in Online Learning (h)

Short Description

With the increasing prevalence of online education options—from individual courses to entire graduate programs—online interactions between students have become an important area of research. This case study is an investigation of the way community developed within a doctoral cohort in an online Ed.D. program. Qualitative methods are utilized to examine the relationships that developed among members of an online doctoral program through a long-term online backchannel running in parallel to official course communications.

Author

• Presenter: Dave Mulder, Dordt University