Faculty and Staff Profiles

KATRINA ANNE MEYER
Assoc Professor, Leadership
Email: kmeyer@memphis.edu
Office Location: 310 Browning Hall
Office Hours: Fall 09 -- email me for appt.
Profile

Dr. Meyer is on the editorial boards of four journals relating to technology and/or online learning:  Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, Journal of Educators Online, Teaching & Learning, and The Internet and Higher Education. Her passions include research (using any appropriate methodology) into online learning and the changes technology are driving through higher education. She just published a book on virtual universities for the New Directions in Higher Education Series and is pursuing research this year on the blogging phenomenon and other Web 2.0 tools.

  

Additional Information

For latest syllabi:  https://umdrive.memphis.edu/xythoswfs/webui/kmeyer/public

 

      

Education
  • Ph.D. Education - University of Washington - 1984

Work Experience
  • Interim Chair, Department of Leadership - College of Education, University of Memphis - Fall 08-Present
  • Associate Professor, Higher and Adult Education Program - University of Memphis - 2004-Present
Honors/Awards
  • Recipient of Fellowship, Technology Leadership Program - University of Memphis - 2005-06
  • Dean's Excellence Award for Research - College of Education, University of Memphis - 2008
  • Research of the Year Award - Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks - 2008
Books Published/Reviewed
  • Meyer, K.A. (1998).  Faculty workload studies:  Perspectives, needs, and future directions.  ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Series, 26(1). [EJ418655]
  • Meyer, K.A. (2002). Online Education: Learning and Teaching in Cyberspace by Greg Kearsley. Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry and Practice, 16(2), 28-29. [http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/ehd/journal]
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2002).  Quality in distance education:  Focus on on-line learning.  ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Series, 29(4). [ED470042]
  • Meyer, K.A. (2003). Lieberman and Wood's Inside the National Writing Project. Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry and Practice, 17(2). [http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/ehd/journal]
  • Meyer, K.A.  (August 2006).  Cost-efficiencies of online learning.  ASHE Higher Education Report Series, 32(1). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.  
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2008).  Review of Simone C. O. Conceição (Ed.) Teaching Strategies in the Online Environment. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 113. Review of Higher Education.

  • Meyer, K.A. (Ed.). (2009).  Lessons Learned from Virtual Universities.  New Directions in Higher Education, vol. 146.  San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.

     

Journal Articles
  • Meyer, K.A. (June-August 2004). The impact of competition on program quality. Planning for Higher Education, 32(4), 5-13. [http://www.scup.org]
  • Smart, K. and Meyer, K.A. (2005).  Changing course management systems: Lessons learned while converting a Blackboard course to Desire2Learn. Educause Quarterly, 28(2), 68-70. [http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm05210.pdf] 
  • Meyer, K.A. (2005).  The ebb and flow of online discussions: What Bloom can tell us about our students' conversations. JALN, 9(1), 53-63. [http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v9n1/pdf/v9n1_meyer.pdf]
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2005).  Planning for cost-efficiencies in online learning.  Planning for Higher Education, 33(3), 19-30.  [http://www.scup.org]
  • Meyer, K. A.  (2005).  Best practices in the assessment of online discussions. In Howell, S. L., & Hricko, M. (Eds.), Online Assessment and Measurement (pp. 118-130). Hershey, PA:  Idea Group, Inc. 
  • Meyer, K.A. (2005). Common metaphors and their impact on distance education: What they tell us and what they hide. Teachers College Record, 107(8).  
  • Meyer, K.A. (2005).  Critical decisions affecting the development of Western Governors University, 30(3), 177-194.
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2005).  Exploring the potential for unintended consequences in online learning.  International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2(9). [http://itdl.org/Journal/Sep_05/article01.htm]
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2006).  The closing of U.S. Open University.  Educause Quarterly, 29(2), 5-7. [http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0620.pdf]
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2006).  Planning for privatization: Beliefs that fuel the conversation.  Planning for Higher Education, 34(3), 34-44.  [Search for article at http://www.scup.org]
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2006).  Technology-driven change: Moving from theory to assertion to evaluation.  The International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 3(9). [http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Sep_06/article03.htm]

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2006).  When topics are controversial: Is it better to discuss them face-to-face or online?  Innovative Higher Education, 31(3), p. 175-186.

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2006).  The method (and madness) of evaluating online discussions.  Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 10(4), 83-97. http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v10n4/pdf/v10n4_meyer1.pdf]

  • Meyer, K.A., Bruwelheide, J., & Poulin, R.  (2006).  Why they stayed:  Near-perfect retention in an online certification program in library media.  Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 10(4), 99-115. http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v10n4/pdf/v10n4_meyer2.pdf] 

  • Poulin, R., & Meyer, K.A.  (2007).  Cost efficiencies:  Tools for meeting today’s challenges.  In S. Johnstone (Ed.), Advancing Campus Efficiencies:  A Companion for Campus Leaders in the Digital Era.   Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing.

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2007).  Does feedback influence student postings to online discussions? Journal of Educators Online, 4(1). [http://www.thejeo.com/Volume4Number1/MeyerFinal.pdf]

  • Xu, Y., & Meyer, K.A.  (2007).  Factors explaining faculty technology use and productivity.  The Internet and Higher Education, 10(1), 41-52.

  • Meyer, K.A., Bruwelheide, J., and Poulin, R. (2007).  Developing knowledge through practical experience:  The principles of financial sustainability for online programs.  The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 10(2). [http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/summer102/meyer102.htm]
  • Meyer, K.A. & Xu, Y. J.  (2007).  A Bayesian analysis of the institutional and individual factors influencing faculty technology use. The Internet and Higher Education, 10(3), 184-195.

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2007).  Student perceptions of face-to-face and online discussions: The advantage goes to . . . Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 11(4), 53-69. [http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v11n4/pdf/v11n4_meyer.pdf]

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2008, Winter). Online program capacity:  Limited, static, elastic, or infinite?  Planning for Higher Education, 36(2), 52-63.  
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2008)  If higher education is a right, and distance education is the answer, then who will pay? Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 12(1).  [http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v12n1/pdf/v12n1_meyer.pdf or http://www.distanceandaccesstoeducation.org/]  
  • Meyer, K.A.  (2008).  Do rewards shape online discussions? Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 7(2), 129-141.[http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/issues/showissue.cfm?volID=7&IssueID=23]  

  • Xu, Y.J., Meyer, K.A., & Morgan, D.   (2008). Piloting a blended approach to teaching statistics in a college of education:  Lessons learned.  Journal of Educators Online, 5(2). [http://www.thejeo.com/Volume5Number2/XuetalPaper.pdf]

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2008). The “virtual face” of institutions:  What do home pages reveal about higher education?  Innovative Higher Education, 33(3), 141-157.

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2008). The role of age and race in online discussions. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 5(10), 11-24. [http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Oct_08/article02.htm] 

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2008). The “virtual face” of institutions:  Why legislators and other outsiders view higher education as aloof.  The Internet and Higher Education, 11(3-4), 178-185. 

  • Xu, Y. J., Meyer, K.A., & Morgan, D.  (2009). A mixed-methods assessment of using an online commercial tutoring system to teach introductory statistics. Journal of Statistics Education, 17(2). http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v17n2/xu.html

  • Meyer, K.A.  (2009).  What’s yours is mine: An investigation of current copyright policies of education journals. Innovative Higher Education, 34(1), 3-18.

  • Meyer, K.A., Bruwelheide, J., and Poulin, R. (2009)  Planning for the sustainability of online programs: The development of financial principles.  Planning for Higher Education, 37(3), 36-55.

  • Wilson, J. L., & Meyer, K.A.  (2009).  Higher education websites: The “virtual face” of diversity.  Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2(2), 91-102.

  • Meyer, K.A., & Xu, Y.J.  (2009).  A causal model of factors influencing faculty use of technology.  Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 13(2). http://www.sloan-c.org/node/1873