Popularity of the metaverse: Embodied social presence theory perspective [PDF]
With Facebook’s name changing to Meta, the metaverse concept has become popular again. There are many indications that the current fashionableness of the metaverse is not driven by technical factors, rather related to the public hype.
Guihua Zhang +4 more
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Extending social presence theory: social presence divergence and interaction integration in online distance learning. [PDF]
AbstractSocial presence is an important concept for understanding psychosocial processes in learning scenarios that make extensive use of mediated communication like online distance learning. Despite this centrality, a coherent and nuanced theory of social presence is yet to emerge from the literature.
Weidlich J, Göksün DO, Kreijns K.
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Social Presence: Conceptualization and Measurement. [PDF]
Social presence is an important construct in online group learning. It influences the way how social interaction unfolds online and affects learning and social outcomes. However, what precisely social presence is has been under debate, as presently a plethora of different definitions and measures exist preventing the development of a coherent research ...
Kreijns K, Xu K, Weidlich J.
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Presence of Social Presence during Disasters [PDF]
During emergencies, affected people use social media platforms for interaction and collaboration. Social media is used to ask for help, provide moral support, and to help each other, without direct face-to-face interactions. From a social presence point of view, we analyzed Twitter messages to understand how people cooperate and collaborate with each ...
Mukkamala, Alivelu Manga, Beck, Roman
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Investigating the effectiveness of the flipped classroom on the learners’ perceived teaching, social and cognitive presence in online courses [PDF]
Background and Objectives: With the increasing use of information technologies in the field of education, it is now possible to create flexible learning environments without temporal and spatial barriers on the Internet.
A. Taghizadeh
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Introduction: Although virtual reality (VR) is most popularly known for its applications to gaming, other entertainment applications are increasingly being explored including in the sports media industry, but little research has so far examined the ...
Andrew Vincent, Paul Frewen, Paul Frewen
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Investigating the Level of Teaching Presence, Cognitive Presence and Social Presence at Web - Based Courses: The Case Study of Shahid Beheshti University [PDF]
When teaching in an e-learning environment, we are faced with a different and new environment compared to the face-to-face. Lack of teacher and learner physical presence in e-learning environments can turn into major problem in such courses, since, it ...
soraya khazai, mahboobe arefi
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Students' Perceptions of Interactions from Instructor Presence, Cognitive Presence, and Social Presence in Online Lessons [PDF]
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns across the globe, many English Language Teaching (ELT) practitioners swiftly switched to teaching fully online.
Misty So-Sum Wai-COOK
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A subjective study of the presence experience phenomenon [PDF]
Background. Presence phenomenon is aт important component of human interaction using virtual reality. Virtual reality is used actively in such spheres as Education, Research, Psychotherapy, Surgery, Entertainment and Games.
Nataliya V. Averbukh
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Little is known about how peers’ mere presence may, in itself, affect academic learning and achievement. The present study addresses this issue by exploring whether and how the presence of a familiar peer affects performance in a task assessing basic ...
Leslie Tricoche +6 more
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