CPED January Wednesday Webinar

Invitations and Engagements for Deepening Connectivity and Perseverance of Online, Asynchronous Doctoral Students: A Comparative Examination Across Four Cohorts

Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET 

This session will share the results of three IRB-approved research studies that investigated the technological integrations, specific verbiage, frequency of communications, types of messaging, interactions, and approaches that best embolden doctoral students to help them build and sustain their learning communities. The opinions and beliefs of part-time doctoral students in a new thriving EdD program were critical to understanding their perceptions of our efforts and their investment in community building in the program. While the planned live virtual engagements were not mandatory in the EdD program of interest, students who did participate expressed a greater sense of belonging, affinity for their work, and desire to persevere.

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Presenter:

Shannon Melideo

Dr. Shannon Melideo has dedicated her entire career to the education profession. Dr. Melideo is a professor of practice in the School of Education in the College of Health and Education at Marymount University in Virginia, USA. She currently serves as a teaching faculty member and a Lead Doctoral Faculty Mentor for students in the EdD program. Throughout her career, she has presented and collaborated extensively on schoolwide, districtwide, campuswide, statewide, national, and international committees, research projects, and task forces. She taught grades 1, 3, 4, 5, ESOL grades K-5, music grades K-8, and 7th-12th grade biology in high needs schools. She has served as a mentor teacher, cooperating teacher, elementary administrator, and district coordinator of ESOL. On the university level, she has served as university department chairperson, supervisor, and associate dean. She recently returned to the elementary classroom as a lead teacher, and was nominated as teacher of the year thrice at her school.

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