Research Interests

e-learning, technical communication, and the societal influence of technology on education.

Recent Research Activities

• (Accepted) Cavanagh, Thomas B. and Kelvin Thompson. “Online Education in the U.S.A.” in The SAGE Handbook of Higher Education. Eds. Safary Wa-Mbaleka, Leni Casamiro, Kelvin Thompson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “Leadership Lessons from the Pandemic.” in From Grassroots to the Highly Orchestrated: Online Leaders Share Their Stories of the Evolving Online Landscape in Higher Ed. Eds. Bettyjo Bouchey, Erin Gatz, & Shelley Kurland. Online Learning Consortium.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “From Pivot to Pirouette: An Administrative Perspective on the 2020 Migration to Remote Instruction.” The Journal of Faculty Development. (September 2020): 34(3), 39-42.
• Ragan, Lawrence, Thomas B. Cavanagh, and Kelvin Thompson. “Supporting Faculty Success in Online Learning.” in Leading the e-Learning Transformation of Higher Education, Second Edition. Ed. Gary E. Miller. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing (2020): 116-137.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B., Rachid Ait Maalem Lahcen, Baiyun Chen, and James Paradiso. “Constructing a Design Framework and Pedagogical Approach for Adaptive Learning in Higher Education: A Practitioner’s Perspective.” The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. (2020): 21(1), 172-196. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v21i1.4557
• Thompson, Kelvin, Rohan Jowallah, Thomas B. Cavanagh. “Solve the Big Problems: Leading Through Strategic Innovation in Blended Teaching & Learning”. Technology Leadership for Innovation in Higher Education. Eds. Yufeng Qian & Guiyou Huang. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing (2019): 26-48.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. and Luke Dowden. “Effectively Leading Innovation.” The Business of Innovating Online: Practical Tips and Advice from Industry Leaders. Ed. Kathryn E. Linder. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing. (2019): 69-78.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. and Kelvin Thompson. “Keeping FIRSST Things First: The Delicate Dance of Leading Online Innovation at Your Institution.” What the e-Learning Leader Needs to Know: Leading and Managing e-Learning. Eds. Anthony Pina, Victoria Walker, Bruce Harris. New York, NY. Springer Publishing Company (2017).
• Cavanagh, Thomas B., Kelvin Thompson, Linda Futch. “Supporting Institutional Hybrid Implementations.” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Hybrid Teaching and Learning. Ed. Kathryn Linder. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley. Vol. 149 (2017): 111-119
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “The LMS Selection Process: Considerations and Practices.” Research bulletin. Louisville, CO: ECAR, July 8, 2014. Available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “Knowing What to Do and Doing What You Know: Situated Technological Literacy in Hybrid Space” Journal of Information Fluency. 3.1 (2014): 22-36.
• Moskal, Patsy and Thomas B. Cavanagh. “Scaling Blended Learning Beyond the University” Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 2. Eds. Charles Graham, Charles Dziuban, Anthony Picciano. New York, NY: Routledge (2013): 34-51.
• Dziuban, Chuck, Patsy Moskal, Thomas B. Cavanagh, Andre Watts. “Analytics That Inform the University.” Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 16.3 (2012): 21-38.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “Leveraging Online University Education to Improve K-12 Science Education: The ScienceMaster Case Study” Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Applications Eds. Melody Bowdon and Russell G. Carpenter. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing (2011): 221-233. <http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/chapter.aspx?titleid=54312>
• Dziuban, Chuck, Joel Hartman, Thomas B. Cavanagh, Patsy Moskal. “Blended Courses as Drivers of Institutional Transformation.” Ed. A. Kitchenham. Blended Learning Across Disciplines: Models for Implementation, Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2011): 17-37.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “Prosthetic Gods: The Posthuman Threat of Self-Service Technology” Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies, Special Issue of Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems 9.3 (2008): 458-480.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Production” International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 4.3 (July-Sept. 2008): 27-42.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “Bridging the Academic Divide: A Collaborative Production Model for Learning Objects in Workforce Development” in Learning Objects for Instruction: Design and Evaluation. Ed. Pamela Northrup. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing (2007): 213-230.
• Cavanagh, Thomas B., Sabrina Dickinson, and Suzanne Brandt “Cooperation, Performance, and Technology: A Case Study” Journal of Interactive Instruction Development 11.3 (Winter 1999): 19-28.

• Moskal, Patsy, Thomas Cavanagh, Morgan Wang, and Jianbin Zhu. “Precision-based predictive analytics.” Companion proceedings of 10th international conference on learning analytics & knowledge (LAK20), Frankfurt, GA (and hybrid virtual during COVID-19 pandemic) (2020).
• Cavanagh, Thomas. “Developing a New Instrument to Determine Prior Online Teaching Competence.” Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. Madison, WI (2010).
• Barger, Marilyn, Thomas Cavanagh, Linda Austin, Richard Gilbert, Linda Nichols, and Ed Goolsby. “The Florida Biotechnology Curriculum Consortium.” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR (2005).
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “Eliminating Traditional Training: The New Era of Human Performance Technology.” Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL (2004).
• Tanner, Scott A., Ronald W. Tarr, and Thomas Cavanagh “SCOs Revisited: Proposing New Categories of Sharable Content Objects to Enhance the Reuse and Sharing of Content Among The Training Community” Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL, (2003)
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. and David Metcalf. “An Advanced Learning Environment for the Aerospace Industry.” Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL (2002).
• Cavanagh, Thomas B. “Propulsion Education Within the Florida Space Research Institute’s Advanced Learning Environment.” Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Joint Propulsion Conference, Indianapolis, IN (2002)
• Cavanagh, Thomas B., Sabrina Dickinson, and Suzanne Brandt “Cooperation, Performance, and Technology: A Case Study.” Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL (1998).