Conference Presentations

Arnold, P., Kumar, S., Thillosen, A. & Ebner, M. (2014). Offering cMOOCs collaboratively: The COER13 experience from the convenors’ perspective. European Stakeholders MOOC Summit 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Kumar, S., Hart, M. & Kenney, J. (November 2013). A student-driven online community of practice: Facebook Friends. Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, FL.

Kumar, S. & Johnson, M. L. (November 2013). Online Mentoring: Strategies for Mentoring Dissertations at a Distance. Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, FL.

Kumar, S. (August 2013). Social Media in Teacher Education: Preservice teachers learn from inservice teacher experience. European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI) conference, Munich, Germany.

Kumar, S. & Hart, M. (August 2013). Social Presence: Informal On-task Interactions in learner-driven online environments. Symposium ‘Social presence revisited: fostering sustainable online learning’ at European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI) conference, Munich, Germany.

Kumar, S. & Dawson, K. (April 2013). Best practice and program-based research in an online professional practice doctorate for educational technologists. International Conference for Doctoral Education 2013, Orlando, FL.

Kumar, S. (October 2012). Adapting the Community of Inquiry Survey for Online Programs. Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando.

Kumar, S. (October 2012). Quality Online Doctoral Programs: An Oxymoron? Presidential Panel. Association of Educational and Communication Technologies, AECT, Louisville, KY.

Kumar, S. & Kenney, J. (September 2012). Assessing Student Learning using Social Media in Higher Education: Strategies and Challenges. Paper at symposium E-Learning 2.0: Online Participation in Higher Education. European Educational Research Association, ECER, Cadiz, Spain.

Kumar, S. ( April 2012). Examining Multiple Approaches to Blended Learning in a Graduate Educational Technology Course. Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference, Milwaukee.

Coughlin, M., Fernandez, H., Johnson, A., Kenney, J., Kumar, S., Wells, T. & Wolfe Sharp, F. (April 2012). Balancing Personal, Professional, and Academic Commitments: Challenges Experienced by Online Doctoral Students. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver.

Kumar, S. (November 2011). Building a Community of Educational Practitioners in a Blended Doctoral Program: Lessons Learned. Sloan-C International Online Learning Conference, Orlando.

Ochoa, M. N. & Kumar, S. (November 2011). A Program Integrated Approach to Online Information Literacy Instruction. Sloan-C International Online Learning Conference, Orlando.

Kumar, S. & Ochoa, M. N. (October 2011). Student-Centered Library Instruction: An Assessment of Online Graduate Students’ Information Literacy Skills and Needs. E-learn. Hawaii. Outstanding Paper Award.

Kumar, S. & Buraphadeja, V. (April 2011). Graduate Student Perceptions of Giving and Receiving Peer Feedback in an Online Teacher Inquiry Course. American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans.

Kumar, S., Cavanaugh, C., Black, E. W., Dawson, K., Sessums, C. D. (April, 2011). Preliminary Impact of a Professional Practice Doctorate on Students’ Professional Growth. American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans.

Drexler, W., Kumar, S. & Sessums, C. D (February, 2011). Kicking it up a Notch: Facilitation as a Value Proposition in Open Learning. Educause Learning Initiative conference (ELI), Washington D.C.

Kumar, S. & Vigil, K. (October, 2010). Pre-service Teachers’ Perspectives on Web 2.0 Integration in Teacher Education Courses. E-learn. Orlando.

Kumar, S., Edwards, M. E. & Ochoa, M. N. (October, 2010). Analysis of Online Students’ Use of Embedded Library Instruction in a Graduate Educational Technology Course. E-learn. Orlando.

Risner, M. & Kumar, S. (September, 2010). A Blended Professional Development Community – Modeling new technologies for the 5C’s in foreign language education. European Conference for Computer-Assisted Language Learning, France.

Kumar, S. & Schumann, J. (September, 2010). Informal language learning online – exploring learner behaviors and preferences using book2 in 50 languages. European Conference for Computer-Assisted Language Learning, France.

Kumar, S. & Sessums, C. D. (June, 2010). PowerPoints to Podcasts: Digital Natives’ Use of Web 2.0 in Course Assessments. Virtual Presentation at World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Toronto, Canada.

Kumar, S. & Deese, R. S. (June, 2010). Teaching History with Blogs: A case study of student engagement. Virtual Presentation at World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Toronto, Canada.

Kumar, S. & Buraphadeja, V. (April, 2010) Student Knowledge Construction in Educational Wikis: Challenges for Interaction Analysis. Symposium: Comparing Approaches to Content Analysis in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver.

Kumar, S. (March, 2010). Helping instructors make the initial transition to online teaching. Panel presentation at the Dortmund Spring School for Academic Staff Developers, Technische Universitaet, Dortmund, Germany.

Kumar, S. (October, 2009). Undergraduate perceptions of the usefulness of Web 2.0 in higher education: Survey Development. 8th European Conference on E-learning, Italy.

Kumar, S. (June, 2009). Wiki Design for Connectedness and Learning: Measuring Graduate Students’ Sense of Community. Virtual Presentation at World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Hawaii.

Kumar, S. (June, 2009). Designing wikis for collaborative learning and knowledge-building in higher education. Poster presented at 8th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Rhodes, Greece.

Kumar, S. (March, 2009). Students’ use of wikis for repository and reflection in a graduate educational technology course. 1st Instructional Innovations Conference, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University, MA.

Kumar, S. (March, 2009). Building a Learning Community using Wikis in Educational Technology Courses. Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) International Conference, Charleston, USA.

Cavanaugh, T., Cavanaugh, C. & Kumar, S. (March, 2009). Class Map for Community in Online Education Course. Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) International Conference, Charleston, USA.

Kumar, S. (July, 2008). Using the Web to present: Web 2.0 use by students. Poster presented at Campus Technology Conference, Boston, USA.

Araullo, J. J. & Kumar, S. (July, 2008). Decision-making in online courses – How much is too much? Poster presented at Campus Technology Conference, Boston, USA.

Kumar, S. (July, 2008). Strategies for integrating and evaluating online discussions in face-to-face courses. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Vienna, Austria.

Kumar, S. (July, 2008). Online Course Development – Where do we Start? World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Vienna, Austria.

Kumar, S. (March, 2008). Using Asynchronous Online Discussions to Enhance Classroom Discussion in Teacher Education Courses. Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) International Conference, Las Vegas, USA.

Kumar, S. (March, 2008). Can We Model Wiki Use in Technology Courses to Help Teachers Use Wikis in their Classrooms? Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) International Conference, Las Vegas, USA.

Kumar, S. (June, 2007). Professor use, facilitation, and assessment of asynchronous online discussions in on-campus courses. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Vancouver, Canada.

Kumar, S. (June, 2007). Student and professor perceptions of course Web site use in web- enhanced instruction. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Vancouver, Canada.