College Directory

Area of Expertise

• Online learning
• Distance education
• Leadership
• Liberatory pedagogy

Highlighted Publications

• Johnston, J. P. (2021). Higher E-Learning: Guiding Values for Online Education. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration.
• Johnston, J. P. (2021). Distance Education Administrators Starting Online Programs in Higher Education: A Case Study of the Tasks, Processes, and Challenges of Change to E-Learning. UKnowledge Theses and Dissertations–Education Sciences.
• Johnston, J. P. (2021). Freedom for the (distance education) people: Ten practical ways to bring liberatory pedagogy to your online class. Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings. 
• Johnston, J. P. (2020). Creating better definitions of distance education. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 23(2).

Current Projects

• Johnston, J. P. & Benner, K. (in preparation). Launching three online programs in three years: Academic and administrative lessons learned.
• In B. Bouchey, E. Gratz, & S. Kurland (Eds.). From grassroots to the highly orchestrated: Online leaders share their stories of the evolving online landscape in higher ed. Online Learning Consortium.

Alma Mater

• University of Kentucky