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- Title
KNOWLEDGE RICH, RELATIONSHIP POOR: Improving Online Doctoral Education for Faculty Career Preparation.
- Authors
Thacker, Russell
- Abstract
The need for online education continues to grow in many fields and disciplines driven by convenience and public health and safety concerns. Little is known about how online doctoral education affects the readiness of future faculty members to work and teach in university settings. This autoethnographic study explores the intentional socialization and training of one online doctoral student for a faculty career and the role of online education in acquiring skills required in future faculty workforce. It uses an emerging framework of entropy and negentropy from thermodynamics to understand how energy loss occurs in online education and what deliberate actions can be undertaken to restore energy loss. A three-phase model of online doctoral preparation for a faculty career is proposed with implications for matching students and advisers, creating consistent forms of interaction, and designing intentional learning experiences to complement doctoral education.
- Publication
Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 4, p69
- ISSN
1528-3518
- Publication type
Article