Exploring Social Presence in Virtual Learning Environment
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چکیده
This study aims to investigate the extent to which social presence (as an element of Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework exists in virtual learning environments of the present study. The population of the study consisted of 107 virtual students at B.S. level at the Iran University of Science and Technology and Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology. A questionnaire was developed by the researcher based on information obtained from reviewing social element of Community of Inquiry framework. Appropriate statistical procedures for description (frequencies, percentages and means and variances) of each indicator were determined. In addition, descriptive statistics of the categories of social presence were also calculated. The results of the study indicated that (1) considering the categories of social presence, Open communication category appeared more frequently than others in virtual centers of the present study. Regarding indicators of CoI framework, Asking questions, Quoting from others’ messages, Phatics, Expressing agreement indicators were the most frequent ones respectively.
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