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Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 Numerous studies have shown the potential benefits of collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) for distributed teams. However, there are few longitudinal studies on collaboration in immersive virtual environments, and existing studies mostly examine how
Negar Khojasteh, Andrea Stevenson Won
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Online Learning, 2022 During the COVID-19 pandemic, from early 2020 onwards, the adoption of synchronous online learning increased rapidly. It offers students a unique learning experience, utilizing communication modes from both in-person and asynchronous online classes ...
Ying Cai +4 more
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International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2009 Adult learners value the flexibility and convenience offered to them as online learners, and many learners are required to absent themselves from their online classes during courses in order to accommodate demanding schedules.
Dianne Conrad
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Social facilitation has been researched for decades, but in the face of the development of virtual reality technology, new questions arise regarding the possibility of its occurrence in this environment —in the presence of computer-generated agents. Past
Paweł M. Strojny +7 more
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Creating a Social Presence Measure: Self-Rated Behaviors that Indicate Mediated Presence
Online Learning, 2022 This study involved the creation and validation of a self-rated social presence measure. Study 1 utilized focus groups to create items. The focus group participants were presented with a set of items based upon past literature; through discussion of ...
Scott Christen +2 more
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An item response theory analysis of the Community of Inquiry Scale
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015 The aim of this study is to examine validity and reliability of Community of Inquiry Scale commonly used in online learning by the means of Item Response Theory.
Mehmet Barış Horzum +1 more
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Scaffolding Social Presence in MOOCs
Asian CHI Symposium 2021, 2021 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) often lack valuable social presences that provide learners opportunities to interact and to be feel as a real person. This subjective experience of being present with a “real” person and having access to their thoughts and emotions increase the learning experience. Although MOOCs provide forums for such interactions,
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Teacher Presence and Social Presence in Virtual and Blended Courses [PDF]
Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2018 Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between teacher presence and social presence on one hand, and feelings of challenge and threat, self-efficacy, and motivation among students studying in virtual and blended courses on the other. Background: Physical separation between teacher and learners may lead to transactional
Gila Cohen Zilka +2 more
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International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016 This study examines a MOOC instructor’s use of social presence, teaching presence, and dissonance for attitudinal change in a MOOC on Human Trafficking, designed to promote attitudinal change.
Sunnie Lee Watson +3 more
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Designing an Adjusted Model for Evaluating Electronic Learning Strategies’ Efficiency on Students’ Academic Achievement [PDF]
Fanāvarī-i āmūzish, 2013 : The main purpose of this research was to examine the model of evaluating efficiency of electronic learning strategies on students’ academic achievement. The methodology of research was correlation.
F. Shafiepour Motlagh, H. Nazari
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