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Exploring the role of multimedia in enhancing social presence in an asynchronous online course
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Exploring the role of multimedia in enhancing social presence in an asynchronous online course
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Rutgers University
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The demand for online education is growing and with it there is a growing concern about the quality of online education. One of the major shortcomings of online education is the experienced social isolation. To minimize this feeling of isolation, research in the past recommends focusing on strategies that enhance social presence in an online course. However, there are many challenges to creating an online learning experience where learners experience a high degree of social presence. This is may be because the nature of the social presence construct is ambiguous and most of the research in past has measured social presence through self-report surveys. The purpose of this study was to examine the growth of social presence in a multimodal discussion forum, and understand how multimedia supports the development of social presence in an asynchronous online course. Additionally, the aim was to know the views of students and the instructor about using multimedia in an online course for various purposes. Through mixed method exploratory case study method, this study explored the role of multimedia in enhancing social presence in an online course. The study made use of three different frameworks i.e. Social constructivism, Community of Inquiry, and Social Network Analysis to understand the use of multimedia and the pattern of development of social presence. The study demonstrated various ways in which multimedia could enhance social presence in an online learning community. The findings indicated the even though some multimodal tools like VoiceThread increased the amount of interaction but it did not result in the increase of social presence. Additionally, the study revealed the inability of the social presence coding protocol developed by Rourke et al. (2001) to capture certain social presence indicators in a multimodal discussion forum. Several conjectures were developed in this study to understand the popularity of a student within a learning network.
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Education
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Computer-assisted instruction
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Interactive multimedia
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Distance education
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by Chesta Khurana
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 31st, 2018.
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