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Social presence, embarrassment, and nonverbal behavior [PDF]
Nonverbal behaviors in response to viewing slides depicting nude males, nude females, erotic couples and neutral pictures, either alone or in the presence of two unfamiliar individuals, were studied in 22 female and 16 male university students ...
Costa, Marco +3 more
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Placing large group relations into pedestrian dynamics: psychological crowds in counterflow [PDF]
Understanding influences on pedestrian movement is important to accurately simulate crowd behaviour, yet little research has explored the psychological factors that influence interactions between large groups in counterflow scenarios.
Drury, John +2 more
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Teaching Presence in Online Education: From the Instructor's Point-of-View
Most often the topic of creating any type of presence in online education is viewed from the student perspective (Oztok & Brett, 2011). This research examines the creation of teaching presence from the vantage point of the instructor.
Kristi A. Preisman
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The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework describes three essential presences (i.e., teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence) and how these presences interact in providing an educational experience in online and blended learning ...
Florence Martin +3 more
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A tale of six fish: Achieving social presence through discussion forums in an offline learning environment [PDF]
It is widely held, through the Socratic tradition, that discussion is at the heart of learning. Moderated discussion forums have been shown to replicate the debate, argument and verbal defence of viewpoints that we have come to expect in face-to-face ...
Lloyd, Margaret
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This case study examined a team of instructors’ use of social presence, teaching presence, and attitudinal dissonance in a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on Animal Behaviour and Welfare (ABW), designed to facilitate attitudinal learning.
Sunnie Lee Watson +3 more
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Investigating design features of a computer-mediated communication system [PDF]
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is increasingly used in higher education, but it is not without problems. The effectiveness of CMC depends on many factors, including the characteristics of CMC systems themselves.
Kear, Karen Lesley
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Narrating the past: virtual environments and narrative [PDF]
This paper explores how traditional narrative language used in film and theatre can be adapted to create interactivity and a greater sense of presence in the virtual heritage environment.
Patel, R, Tuck, D
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Post-Secondary Students' Purposes For Blogging
The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was
Paul Henry Leslie, Elizabeth Murphy
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The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is a popular framework to measure meaningful engagement and communication in distance learning environments, where it is claimed that three interactive elements of presence (teaching, social, and cognitive) enhance the ...
Vidya Patwardhan +3 more
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