E-mentoring Doctoral Dissertations: Challenges, Strategies, and Institutional Support

• In Event: DDL- E-mentoring and Learner Collaboration for Online Students

Short Description

Prior research has highlighted the importance of practices of dissertation chairs to doctoral candidates’ progress and completion of doctoral dissertations in the online environment. In this study, fifty-three faculty completed an open-ended survey regarding the strategies, and institutional support that they found most helpful in the e-mentoring of doctoral dissertations. Strategies related to communications, research process, student support, and institutional support that were most helpful will be discussed.

Authors

• Contributor: Swapna Kumar, University of Florida

• Contributor: Elizabeth Roumell, Texas A&M University

• Contributor: Doris U Bolliger, Texas Tech University