Health & Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

10-2025

Abstract

As online education grows, instructional teams with academic coaches have become increasingly valuable in higher education. Coaches play crucial roles in fostering student engagement, supporting active learning, and delivering timely feedback, particularly in large online courses. Recent mixed-method research examined effective coach integration into online instructional teams by analyzing faculty characteristics, behaviors, preferences, attitudes, and knowledge. The study identified successful strategies and best practices for faculty-coach collaboration, providing actionable insights for instructors. This research expands our understanding of how team-based approaches can enhance educational quality in virtual environments, contributing meaningfully to ongoing discussions about online teaching effectiveness and the strategic deployment of academic coaches. The findings suggest that academic coach integration creates more responsive learning environments while distributing instructional responsibilities to maximize student support and outcomes in the online educational environment.

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This chapter is published as an Open Access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and production in any medium, provided the author of the original work and original publication source are properly credited. Use of this chapter to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license its use for generative AI training and machine learning model development

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Publication Title

Academic Coaching in Modern Online Education

DOI

10.4018/979-8-3373-2582-8.ch013

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