Dr. S. David Vaillancourt

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt

Location: houston, tx

About me

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the College of Health Care Professions based in Houston, Texas. Prior to this post he worked as an e-Learning consultant for companies across the USA. His primary research focus over the past four years has been the development of online learning Engagement Metrics. Dr. Vaillancourt's 28 years of service in education includes multiple levels of experience in both private and public educational institutions. His professional positions include; founding Online Campus President for Virginia College, National Dean of ITT's Online Division, Director of Education for Ultimate Medical Academy, College President in Utah, Certified Cisco Academy Instructor, Master Certified Novell Instructor, and K-12 public school science teacher.

Dr. Vaillancourt's BS and MS in Education were earned from Samford University and he completed his Ed.D. in Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Vaillancourt designed, founded and chaired the non-profit National Math Bee (2006-2011), which provided an online learning community for over 15,000 elementary school mathematics students in 37 states across the country. Prior to his career in education, he was a US Army soldier.

 

Website

https://www.CompuSage.com

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Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
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Freshman Retention Through Experiential Learning

Lisa,

Nice way to provide students with a challenge...engage...succeed activity. When they gain that confidence, they are less likely to give up as easily. It is also a good 'real world' prep. Very nice.

Thanks,

David

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Discussion Comment
Active Learning Methods

Games like jeopardy provide a great practice forum for many learning scenarios. There are many forms of beneficial practice. This is a tried and true principle of education in many settings.

The 'new' setting of the "flipped classroom" in the hybrid/blended model is well aligned with this principle. It adds the value of enhancing the practice with supervision of the subject matter expert. This can provide for early intervention to diminish/eliminate wrong practice and unlearning.

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Blog
Online Education – Results

In today's accountability atmosphere, the ability to provide evidence of "good teaching" in the online classroom is a prominent endeavor in distance education. In 2009, the US Department of Education published a meta-analysis reviewing 10 years of empirical data research in the online classroom. The overall finding was that generalized "best practices" by online instructors can only take you so far toward quality online education. Implementation of the generalized improvements in an already functional online learning environment rarely produced significant improvement in student success. The report indicated the statistically significant improvements resulted from leveraging the power of technology for individualizing instruction to… >>>

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Dr. S. David Vaillancourt currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the College of Health Care Professions based in Houston, Texas. Prior to this post he worked as an e-Learning consultant for companies across the USA. His primary research focus over the past four years has been the development of online learning Engagement Metrics. Dr. Vaillancourt's 28 years of service in education includes multiple levels of experience in both private and public educational institutions. His professional positions include; founding Online Campus President for Virginia College, National Dean of ITT's Online Division, Director of Education for Ultimate Medical Academy, College President in Utah, Certified Cisco Academy Instructor, Master Certified Novell Instructor, and K-12 public school science teacher.

Dr. Vaillancourt's BS and MS in Education were earned from Samford University and he completed his Ed.D. in Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Vaillancourt designed, founded and chaired the non-profit National Math Bee (2006-2011), which provided an online learning community for over 15,000 elementary school mathematics students in 37 states across the country. Prior to his career in education, he was a US Army soldier.

 

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Dr. S. David Vaillancourt

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt

Location: houston, tx

About me

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the College of Health Care Professions based in Houston, Texas. Prior to this post he worked as an e-Learning consultant for companies across the USA. His primary research focus over the past four years has been the development of online learning Engagement Metrics. Dr. Vaillancourt's 28 years of service in education includes multiple levels of experience in both private and public educational institutions. His professional positions include; founding Online Campus President for Virginia College, National Dean of ITT's Online Division, Director of Education for Ultimate Medical Academy, College President in Utah, Certified Cisco Academy Instructor, Master Certified Novell Instructor, and K-12 public school science teacher.

Dr. Vaillancourt's BS and MS in Education were earned from Samford University and he completed his Ed.D. in Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Vaillancourt designed, founded and chaired the non-profit National Math Bee (2006-2011), which provided an online learning community for over 15,000 elementary school mathematics students in 37 states across the country. Prior to his career in education, he was a US Army soldier.

 

Website

https://www.CompuSage.com

Activity

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Blog Comment
Freshman Retention Through Experiential Learning

Lisa,

Nice way to provide students with a challenge...engage...succeed activity. When they gain that confidence, they are less likely to give up as easily. It is also a good 'real world' prep. Very nice.

Thanks,

David

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Discussion Comment
Active Learning Methods

Games like jeopardy provide a great practice forum for many learning scenarios. There are many forms of beneficial practice. This is a tried and true principle of education in many settings.

The 'new' setting of the "flipped classroom" in the hybrid/blended model is well aligned with this principle. It adds the value of enhancing the practice with supervision of the subject matter expert. This can provide for early intervention to diminish/eliminate wrong practice and unlearning.

Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
Blog
Online Education – Results

In today's accountability atmosphere, the ability to provide evidence of "good teaching" in the online classroom is a prominent endeavor in distance education. In 2009, the US Department of Education published a meta-analysis reviewing 10 years of empirical data research in the online classroom. The overall finding was that generalized "best practices" by online instructors can only take you so far toward quality online education. Implementation of the generalized improvements in an already functional online learning environment rarely produced significant improvement in student success. The report indicated the statistically significant improvements resulted from leveraging the power of technology for individualizing instruction to… >>>

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Dr. S. David Vaillancourt currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the College of Health Care Professions based in Houston, Texas. Prior to this post he worked as an e-Learning consultant for companies across the USA. His primary research focus over the past four years has been the development of online learning Engagement Metrics. Dr. Vaillancourt's 28 years of service in education includes multiple levels of experience in both private and public educational institutions. His professional positions include; founding Online Campus President for Virginia College, National Dean of ITT's Online Division, Director of Education for Ultimate Medical Academy, College President in Utah, Certified Cisco Academy Instructor, Master Certified Novell Instructor, and K-12 public school science teacher.

Dr. Vaillancourt's BS and MS in Education were earned from Samford University and he completed his Ed.D. in Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Vaillancourt designed, founded and chaired the non-profit National Math Bee (2006-2011), which provided an online learning community for over 15,000 elementary school mathematics students in 37 states across the country. Prior to his career in education, he was a US Army soldier.

 

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