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Effects of online teaching presence on students' interactions and collaborative knowledge construction
Author(s) -
Wang Yang,
Liu Qingtang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.583
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2729
pISSN - 0266-4909
DOI - 10.1111/jcal.12408
Subject(s) - centrality , negotiation , knowledge building , collaborative learning , computer science , knowledge sharing , online teaching , mathematics education , teaching method , social network analysis , mechanism (biology) , knowledge management , psychology , social media , world wide web , sociology , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , combinatorics , social science
This study analysed the instructors' teaching presence of three courses conducted by an instructor to explore the effects of the instructors' online teaching presence on students' interactions and collaborative knowledge constructions. Content analysis, social network analysis, and lag sequential analysis were used to explore the mechanism of teaching presence on students' interactions and collaborative knowledge construction. Results demonstrate that the design and organization, as well as facilitating discourse, can facilitate students' interaction, reduce the number of peripheral students, and facilitate students' collaborative knowledge construction, especially in the knowledge sharing, discovery, discussion, and application, whereas direct instruction has positive effects on teachers' centrality and negative effects on knowledge negotiation and testing. The result can give the instructors some guidance on online teaching practices.