The Relationships among Social Presence, Cognitive Process, and Knowledge Construction in Asynchronous Online Discussions (AODs)

• In Event: DDL- Self-Direction & Social Presence in Online Learning (v)

Short Description

This correlational study investigates the relationships among three constructs in terms of higher-ed students’ performance in asynchronous online discussions. The three constructs include students’ ability of socially interacting with others (i.e., social presence), their process of developing meaningful discourses (i.e., cognitive process), and the knowledge types they contribute to the discussion group (i.e., knowledge construction). A quantitative content analysis is applied to transforming students’ postings into descriptive and inferential statistics for explaining the relationships.

Authors

• Presenter: Tianxiao Yang, Syracuse University

• Presenter: Zhijuan Niu, Syracuse University

• Presenter: Jing Lei, Syracuse University