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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
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Dennis Beck is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His research focuses on educational practices and strategies within immersive learning environments, including the use of the metaverse. Beck has investigated conceptual frameworks for mapping knowledge and tools in this field, and developed recommendation tools for utilizing immersive learning environments. His work also examines the relationships between student interaction and achievement in cyber schools, including enrollment trends during the COVID-19 pandemic and the factors influencing student choices to attend cyber schools. Beck has a publication record of 127 items, with 1,163 citations and an h-index of 18. He has collaborated on multiple publications with Robert Maranto and Martha Bradley-Dorsey.
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- h-index: 18
- Publications: 127
- Citations: 1,163
Selected Publications
- An Explosion of the Uses of Immersive Learning Environments: A Mapping of Reviews Update (2025) DOI
- The Ethical Choices with Educational Technology (ECET) Immersive Technologies Decision Support Framework (2025) DOI
- Bridging the gaps: an updated mapping of the uses of immersive learning environments (2025) DOI
- The Role of Test Anxiety in Virtual School Performance: Impacts of Testing Context and Implications for Equity (2025) DOI
- How marginalized identities are related to cyber charter school enrollment (2025) DOI
- Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cube and the Immersive Learning Brain (2025) DOI
- Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Cyber Schooling: An Exploratory Study (2024) DOI
- Tutorial–Authoring a Personal GPT for Your Research and Practice: How We Created the QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper (2024) DOI
- At-Risk and Online: Parent Perceptions of At-Risk learner’s Choice to Attend and Experiences in a Fully Online School (2024) DOI
- At-risk and online: parent perceptions of at-risk learner’s supports in a fully online school (2024) DOI
- Guest editorial: Special issue on “disruption, innovation and resiliency in immersive learning” (2024) DOI
- Companion dataset for paper "Immersive Learning Environments for Self-Regulation of Learning: A Literature Review" (2023) DOI
- Companion dataset for paper "Immersive Learning Environments for Self-Regulation of Learning: A Literature Review" (2023) DOI
- Virtual school students and state testing: A story of fatigue, irrelevant thoughts and anxiety (2023) DOI
- Immersive Learning Research from the Perspective of Its Researchers and Practitioners: Questionnaire Validation and Early Results from a Survey on a Conceptual Framework for the Field (2023) DOI
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