Future research interests include enhancing reading comprehension and self-regulation skills through generative learning strategies in computer-based learning environments, and mobile learning. He is currently designing a study for his doctoral dissertation on the use of embedded generative learning strategies and metacognitive feedback in digital text and the implications for reading comprehension and self-regulation. He has co-authored two book chapters: “Integrating Twitter into a two-year community college” and “Online behavior of the social media student,” both of which deal with faculty and student attitudes and perceptions of social media in academia.

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