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Verifying Causal Relationships among the Presences of the Community of Inquiry Framework in the Chinese Context
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Ma, Zhiqiang; Wang, Jing; Wang, Qiyun; Kong, Lili; Wu, Yajie; Yang, Hao – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The purpose of this study was to verify a Chinese version of Community of Inquiry (CoI) instrument with learning presence and explore the causal relationships of the factors in the instrument. This study first examined the reliability and validity of the instrument. All four presences had acceptable levels of reliability (all Cronbach's a >…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Validity
Designing and Improving a Blended Synchronous Learning Environment: An Educational Design Research
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Wang, Qiyun; Lang Quek, Choon; Hu, Xiaoyong – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
In this study, a blended synchronous learning environment (BSLE) was created to support a group of graduate students when they were taking a course. Instruction was delivered to both face-to-face (F2F) and online students simultaneously. The purpose of this paper is to present how this BSLE was gradually designed, implemented, and improved by…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Synchronous Communication, Graduate Students, Educational Technology