Latest! 2012 Academic Partnerships Faculty Research Grant Award Winners
Submitted by Academic Partnerships on October 8, 2012 – 5:29 pmNo Comment
Academic Partnerships is very pleased by the overwhelming response to our grant notice and we celebrate the quality of proposals that were submitted. We are happy to announce the recipients of the grants below. Congratulations!
A special thanks to our grant selection committee:
Dr. Kenneth Craycraft
Dr. Jeri Nowakowski
Dr. Dick Ferguson
Dr. Charles Green
Dr. Les Wyatt
Dr. Melissa Kaulbach
Dr. Karen Anderson
| University | Recipients |
AP Course/Program | Title of Proposal |
| Arkansas State University | Dr. Po-Lin Pan | Communications/BSIS | Examining Perceived Teacher Confirmation in online classroom in relation to online student resistance strategies and learning outcomes |
| Augusta State University |
Dr. Olajide Agunloye, Dr. Samuel Hardy and Dr. Paulette Harris | Education | “A Comparative Study of the Instructional Effectiveness of Traditional vs. Online Course Delivery” |
| Florida International University |
Dr. Krishnan Dandapani, Dr. Deanne Butchey, Dr. Edward Lawrence | Finance/MBA | Efficacy of standards from accrediting perspective: Evaluation of online MBA program |
| Lamar University |
Dr. Ordene Edwards | Education | Practicing Teachers’ Perceptions of Social Presence and Future Success: The Value of Online Learning |
| Lamar University |
Dr. Stefan Andrei | Programming Fundamentals/BAAS | Building an online computer science course with embedded signing avatars useful for deaf and hard of hearing students |
| Lamar University |
Dr. Lynn Godkin Dr. Vivek Natarajan |
Marketing/Management | Technology readiness and learning goals as antecedents to student satisfaction and learning outcomes in online and traditional settings: an empirical investigation |
| Purdue University Calumet |
Dr. Pam Frampton Anastasia M. Trekles |
Education | Learning at the speed of light: Deep learning and accelerated online graduate courses |
| Texas A&M University Commerce | Dr. Casey Graham Brown | Education | The Impact of Online Learning: Student Persistence and Attrition |
| Texas A&M University Commerce | Dr. Maria Hinojosa Dr. Rusty Waller |
Education | Diversity at Work: TAMU – Commerce and Academic Partnerships (Demographics of online Master M. Ed. Students) |
| Texas A&M University Commerce | Dr. Raghu N. Singh |
Criminal Justice | Toward developing ideas on evaluating the effectiveness of teaching online graduate courses in criminal justice program |
| University of Texas at Arlington |
Dr. Kimberly Breuer |
History | Comparing the use of weekly journals and discussions to improve critical thinking and writing skills in face to face and online courses |
| University of Texas at Arlington |
Dr. Beth Mancini Jean Ashwill |
Nursing | A comparative analysis of demographic and academic success characteristics of 2,355 online RN to BSN students |
| University of Texas at Arlington | Dr. Joohi Lee | Education | Factors of effective online learning: Assessing satisfaction levels of graduate students of mathematics education associated with human and design factors of an online course. |
| University of Texas at Pan Am | Dr. Dave Jackson, Dr. Joo Jung, Dr. David Sturges | Business | Implementation of new online programs with Quality Matters development: Variables to make it more effective and efficient |
| University of Texas at Permian Basin | Dr. Raj Desai |
Management/Business | Applying Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints to Increase Enrollment |
| University of Texas at Permian Basin | Dr. Dian Jordan-Werhane | Sociology/BAAS | Social Dynamics of online discussions pertaining to family dysfunction and substance abuse |