The onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has shifted most world toward remote working and education. As continues to embrace virtual communication in post-COVID-19 era, it is crucial investigate impacts online social copresence on cognitive performance. present study investigated how videoconference presence a companion affects participants performance relational-reasoning tasks. was ei...

For K-12 teachers to improve effective teaching skills, cognitive presence (CP) integration into and learning process is of utmost value. CP strategy training can serve as a facilitating component in supporting teachers’ instructional capacity. This study presents findings teacher professional development aiming implementation at level. Following mixed-method methodology, the present research w...

This study assessed the depth of online learning, with a focus on the nature of online interaction in four distance education course designs. The Study Process Questionnaire was used to measure the shift in students’ approach to learning from the beginning to the end of the courses. Design had a significant impact on the nature of the interaction and whether students approached learning in a de...

In this paper we present the results of an exploratory study that examined the use of text mining and text classification for the automation of the content analysis of discussion transcripts within the context of distance education. We used Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework and focused on the content analysis of the cognitive presence construct given its central position within the CoI model...