Curriculum and Instruction graduate Leanna Archambault and current faculty member, Kent Crippen recently published a study looking at online educators in the United States. The study, K–12 Distance Educators at Work: Who's Teaching Online Across the United States, is published in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE). The study describes a number of characteristics typically found in online educators including demographics and motivations.

Leanna Archambault earned a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction in 2008 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University.