Webinar: A Collective Approach to Mentoring and Advising Online EdD Students

Through discussion of one online EdD program’s approach to doctoral advising, we aim to engage participants in a sharing of and learning from experiences with mentoring and advising EdD students. Specifically, we will discuss and share strategies specific to virtual dissertation advising.

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About the Presenters

Yolanda Abel 

Yolanda Abel is an Associate Professor and chair of the Department of Advanced Studies in Education at Johns Hopkins University School of Education. She is also a faculty affiliate with Center for Social Organization of Schools and the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools. Her publications appear in American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Negro Education, Education and Urban Society, and School Science and Mathematics Journal.

Carey Borkoski

Carey Borkoski is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University where she holds a faculty appointment with the School of Education and teaches research methods and advises doctoral students in the online EdD program. Her research explores the role of communities, bridging media like podcasts and TedTalks, and storytelling in facilitating student onboarding, promoting deeper learning, and mitigating anxiety around learning and engaging in often unfamiliar academic spaces.

Her research focuses on understanding the barriers and supports for cultivating our personal and communal sense of belonging. In particular she works to identify strategies that most effectively cultivate belonging in our learning communities and is currently working on research to understand the onboarding and development of first-year doctoral students in online programs.

Carey has shared her work in a variety of publications and at several national conferences. She has been invited to share her own journey to belonging as well as her research and teaching related to community building and belonging with audiences of students, teachers, community members, and leaders. 

Sherri Kay Prosser

Sherri is an assistant professor and the EdD coordinator at Austin Peay State University. She has been an advisor/chair with Johns Hopkins University since the 2015 Cohort, where she taught in their online EdD program from 2016-2019. Many of her research interests are related online teaching and learning. Sherri was recently awarded a grant contract to create an online, job-embedded, mentoring-based principal preparation program for 100 aspiring assistant principals across Tennessee.

Read her full bio here.