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This exploratory study examined how teaching, social and cognitive presences would relate to cognitive load in a fully online learning environment. Teaching, social and cognitive presences were hypothesized to help keeping cognitive load at an optimal level thereby relating to it. 121graduate students were asked to complete a presence and cognitive load survey in addition to a demographics survey. Spearman`s rank correlation results indicated that (a) cognitive presence relates positively to intrinsic and germane load while relating negatively to extraneous load; (b) teaching presence relates negatively to extraneous load and positively to germane load; and (c) social presence relates positively to germane load only. These warrant further research focusing on the extent to which the presences can optimize cognitive load.