EDUCATION

Ph.D., Communication Studies (media studies/effects), Regent University, College of Communication & the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA.

M.A., Education, Regent University School of Education.

M.A., Counseling, Regent University School of Counseling.

M.A., Communication, Regent University, College of Communication.

J.D., Juris Doctor, Regent University School of Law.

B.A., Communication, (Minor: Psychology) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS (2001-04)

Alban, D.A., Woods, R.H., & Daigle-Williamson, M. (2005, Summer, in press). The Writings Of William Carey: Journalism As Mission In A Modern Age. Journal of Mission Studies, 22(1).

Walrath, B.D., & Woods, R.H. (2005, in press). Free Methodist worship in America: An historical-critical analysis. Wesleyan Theological Journal, 40 (1). 

Woods, R.H., & Baker, J.D. (2004). Interaction and immediacy in online learning. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 5(2), Available at http://www.irrodl.org/content/v5.2/index.html.

Baker, J.B., & Woods, R.H. (2004). Immediacy, cohesiveness, and the online classroom. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 15 (2), 133-151. 

Woods, R. H., Jindra, M., & Baker, J.D. (2004). The audience responds to The Passion. In S. Brent Plate (Ed.), Re-Viewing the Passion: Mel Gibson's film and its critics (pp. 163-180). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Christians, C.G., Fackler, M., Rotzoll, K.B., McKee, K.B., & Woods, Jr., R.H. (2004). Media ethics: Cases and moral reasoning (7th ed). Boston : Allyn Bacon.

Woods, R.H., Baker, J.B., & Hopper, D. (2004, Winter, in press).  Hybrid structures: Faculty use and perception of web-based courseware as a supplement to face-to-face instruction. The Internet and Higher Education, 7(4). 

Woods, R.H., & Baker, J.D. (2005, in press). The pedagogy of social development in online learning. In Patricia L. Rodgers (Ed.), Encyclopedia of dist ance learning: Distance learning technologies and applications (vol. 1) (pp. xx-xx).  Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc.

Baker, J.D., & Woods, R.H. (Eds.) (in press). Encyclopedia of electronic surveys and measurements. Hershey, PA: The Idea Group.

Baker, J.D., Woods, R.H., & Grooms, L. (in press). Online social dynamics. Hershey, PA: The Idea Group.

Bohus, S., Woods, R.H., & Chan, C. (2004, in press). Factors contributing to the psychological sense of community on religious collegiate campuses in the Christian Evangelical tradition. Christian Higher Education.

Knight, D.A., Woods, R.H., & Jindra, I. (in press). Gender and Christian conversion narratives: The relationship between gender and how one communicates his or her Christian conversion narrative. Review of Religious Research.

Woods, R.H., & Ebersole, S. (2003). Using non-subject matter specific discussion board to build connectedness in online learning. American Journal of Distance Education, 17( 2), 99-118.

Woods, R.H., & Ebersole, S. (2003). Becoming a communal architect in the online classroom: Integrating cognitive and affective learning for maximum effect in web-based education. Journal of Distance Learning, 7 (1), 52-67.

Woods, R.H., & Ebersole, S. (2003).  Social Networks in the Online Classroom: Foundations of Effective Online Learning. E-Journal, 12/13 (1), Available at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/ejournal/archive/v12-13/v12-13n1Contents.html

Woods, R.H., & Moore-Jumonville (2003): A Role Taking Theory of Praying the Psalms: Using the Psalms as a Model for Structuring the Life of Prayer, Journal of Biblical Studies, 3 (2), http://journalofbiblicalstudies.org/issue7.htm

Woods, R. & Ebersole, S. (2003). Becoming a Communal Architect in the Online Classroom - Integrating Cognitive and Affective Learning for Maximum Effect in Web-Based Learning. The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 6 (1), 
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring2003/woods61.html .

Woods, Robert H., & Ebersole, Samuel (2003). "Online Again, Offline Again Relationships -- Connecting for Success in the Virtual Classroom." [Book Chapter]. In J. Baker, et al. eds., The Online Learning Guide. Allyn & Bacon, Publishers.

Ebersole, Samuel, & Woods, Robert (2001, Winter). Virtual Community: Koinonia or Compromise?: Theological Implications of Community in Cyberspace. Christian Scholars Review, 185-216.

Woods, Robert, & Keeler, John (2001, November). The Effect of Instructor's Use of Audio E-mail Messages on Student Participation in and Perceptions of Online Learning: A Preliminary Case Study. Open Learning, 16 (3), 263-278.

Woods, Robert H. (2002). How Much Communication is Enough in Online Courses?—Exploring the Relationship Between Frequency of Instructor-initiated Personal Email and Learners' Perceptions of and Participation in Online Learning.” International Journal of Instructional Media, 29 (4), 377-394.

Brauch, Jeffrey & Woods, Robert (2001). Faith, Learning and Justice in Alan Dershowitz's, The Genesis of Justice: Toward a Proper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Bible and Modern Justice. Valparaiso University Law Review, 36(1), 1-79.

Woods, Robert H. (2001). Order in the Virtual Law Classroom . . . Order in the Virtual Law Classroom—A Closer Look at U.S. Law Schools in Cyberspace: Constructing Multiple Instructional Strategies for Effective Internet-based Legal Education. Journal of Information, Law and Technology (3), Available at http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt

Paper/Conference Presentation, Robert Woods, "Hybrid structures: Faculty use and perception of web-based courseware as a supplement to face-to-face instruction." SALT (Society for Applied Learning Technology), Arlington, VA, August 2004.

Paper/Conference Presentation, Robert Woods & David Hopper, "Hybrid Structures: A Study of the Use of a Learning Management System (LMS) to Augment Face-to-face Instruction – Faculty Use and Perception of Web-based Support of Face-to-face Course Delivery." CCCU Technology Conference-- Partnering for Success, Calvin College, 2004, June 2-5.

Paper/Conference Presentation, Robert Woods & Samuel Ebersole, "The Communal Scaffold.” Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Spring 2003.

Paper/Conference Presentation, Robert Woods & Jason Baker, "Social Networks and Community-Building in Online Learning," International Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education, Fall 2003, Purdue University.

Paper/Conference Presentation, Robert Woods & Samuel Ebersole, “Building the Communal Scaffold in Online Distance Education--Toward a Social Pedagogy of Online Learning," International Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education, Fall 2002, Purdue University.  

Paper/Conference Presentation, Robert Woods & Samuel Ebersole, “Connecting for Success: Effective Strategies for Building Online Community in the Cyber-classroom,” International Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education: Synthesizing Online Teaching Strategies, Fall 2001, Purdue University.

Information Session/Conference Presentation, Robert Woods & Jason Baker, "Social Dynamics of Online Learning: Pedagogical Imperatives and Practical Applications," 18th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning, Fall, 2002, University of Wisconsin.