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Watson, F. F., Castano Bishop, M., & Ferdinand-James, D. (2017). Instructional strategies to help online students learn: Feedback from online students. TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 61(5), 420-427.

This article discusses the Top Ten Instructional Strategies preferred by master’s students who responded to a dissertation survey question - What specific things would you like your online instructors to do to help you learn successfully? - and relates these strategies to the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education and the Quality Matters Rubric.

Rodrigo, C., & Tabuenca, B. (2020). Learning ecologies in online students with disabilities. Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 28(62), 53–64.

When thinking about designing online learning experiences that engage and retain motivated adult learners, pedagogical consideration must be given to accommodating adult online learners with disabilities. The work presented in this paper highlights the need to provide multimedia elements with subtitles, text transcriptions, and the option to be downloadable and editable so that students can adapt them to their needs and learning style.

Berry, G. R. (2018). Learning from the learners: Student perception of the online classroom. Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 19(3), 39-56.

Read the student quotes offered in this study to better understand the online learning experience from the student’s perspective.

Castellanos-Reyes, D. (2020, March 24). 20 Years of the community of inquiry framework. TechTrends, 64, 557-560.

The community of inquiry framework is a collaborative-constructivist process model that describes the essential elements of a successful online higher education learning experience.