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Garrison, D. R. – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2007
This paper explores four issues that have emerged from the research on social, cognitive and teaching presence in an online community of inquiry. The early research in the area of online communities of inquiry has raised several issues with regard to the creation and maintenance of social, cognitive and teaching presence that require further…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Educational Technology, Internet
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Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
This investigation reviews published empirical studies that attempted to support or to validate transactional distance theory (Moore, 1993). It was found that either data only partially supported the theory or, that if they apparently did so, the studies lacked reliability, construct validity, or both. It was concluded that the basic propositions…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Construct Validity, Validity, Criticism