Online Professional Skills Workshops: Perspectives from Distance Education Graduate Students

While many online graduate students are gaining academic and scholarly knowledge, the opportunities for students to develop and hone professional skills essential for the workplace are lacking. Given the virtual environment of distance learning, graduate students are often expected to glean professi...

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Autores principales:	Sarah Anne Gauvreau, Deborah Hurst, Martha Cleveland-Innes, Pamela Hawranik
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2016
Materias:	professional skills development synchronous online workshops distance education online graduate student Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:126782e3d9984910928efc29f60d03e82021-12-02T19:25:49ZOnline Professional Skills Workshops: Perspectives from Distance Education Graduate Students10.19173/irrodl.v17i5.20241492-3831https://doaj.org/article/126782e3d9984910928efc29f60d03e82016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2024https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831While many online graduate students are gaining academic and scholarly knowledge, the opportunities for students to develop and hone professional skills essential for the workplace are lacking. Given the virtual environment of distance learning, graduate students are often expected to glean professional skills such as analytical thinking, self-awareness, flexibility, team-building, and problem-solving inherently through informal means (Cleveland-Innes & Ally, 2012). The goal of this study was to evaluate the experiences of online graduate students participating in synchronous online professional skills workshops. Students attended the sessions from the various graduate programs at an online Canadian university. The discussions from the focus group held at the end of the project were used to achieve the research goals. This paper used a phenomenological lens to accomplish its research goals. The participants reported that they experienced a “sense of community” and learned skills that were not included in their academic programs. Sarah Anne GauvreauDeborah HurstMartha Cleveland-InnesPamela HawranikAthabasca University Pressarticleprofessional skills developmentsynchronous online workshopsdistance educationonline graduate studentSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 17, Iss 5 (2016)
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description	While many online graduate students are gaining academic and scholarly knowledge, the opportunities for students to develop and hone professional skills essential for the workplace are lacking. Given the virtual environment of distance learning, graduate students are often expected to glean professional skills such as analytical thinking, self-awareness, flexibility, team-building, and problem-solving inherently through informal means (Cleveland-Innes & Ally, 2012). The goal of this study was to evaluate the experiences of online graduate students participating in synchronous online professional skills workshops. Students attended the sessions from the various graduate programs at an online Canadian university. The discussions from the focus group held at the end of the project were used to achieve the research goals. This paper used a phenomenological lens to accomplish its research goals. The participants reported that they experienced a “sense of community” and learned skills that were not included in their academic programs.
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