Peter Shea

Peter Shea is currently serving as a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has been the recipient of multiple grants to research and develop online learning environments for both higher education and K-12 settings. Shea previously served as the Director for the SUNY Learning Network, a learning management system that provides online resources for the State of University of New York's many colleges. He has received numerous honors and awards for his work in online learning.

Shea's main areas of research focus on online teaching and learning in higher education. His most cited works include:

• Shea, P., & Bidjerano, T. (2010). Learning presence: Towards a theory of self-efficacy, self-regulation, and the development of a communities of inquiry in online and blended learning environments. Computers & Education, 55(4), 1721-1731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2010.07.017

• Shea, P., Li, C. S., & Pickett, A. (2006). A study of teaching presence and student sense of learning community in fully online and web-enhanced college courses. The Internet and higher education, 9(3), 175-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2006.06.005

• Shea, P., & Bidjerano, T. (2009). Community of inquiry as a theoretical framework to foster "epistemic engagement" and "cognitive presence" in online education. Computers & Education, 52(3), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2008.10.007

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