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Joshua Weidlich; Jane Yau; Karel Kreijns – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Online distance learning presents unique psychosocial characteristics due to the inherent distance between learners. Social presence --the sense of being with others-- is key to mitigating this distance. However, our understanding of social presence remains limited, despite its potential to reduce social isolation and cultivate a conducive social…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Psychological Patterns, Social Isolation
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Jayoung Song; Juhee Lee – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study addresses the necessity of comprehending the remote learning environment for improving online course design and delivery. The primary objective is to investigate the impact of teaching, cognitive, and social presence, along with learner motivation from the Community of Inquiry framework, on students' learning satisfaction in both…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education
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Ana L. S. Lopes; Marili M. S. Vieira – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2023
Contemporary educational practices impose challenges and necessary changes in teaching and learning processes in which cyberspace and virtual contexts become places of learning. Affection, emotion, perception, and imagination compose the construction of meaningful adult knowledge. Such theoretical assumptions become fundamental for teaching and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Educational Environment, Affective Behavior
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Nazarana Mather; Liesl Scheepers – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
Feedback is one of the most powerful tools for teaching and learning. Providing meaningful feedback to students is of particular importance in an online context as it is a direct way for the facilitator to engage with their students and to provide them with individual, tailored support. This study sought to explore the perceptions of online…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Private Colleges, Facilitators (Individuals), Online Courses
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Katai, Zoltan; Iclanzan, David – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, many higher education programs had to switch to synchronous online teaching. Teachers suddenly faced pressing unaddressed challenges, such as how to better transfer their "presence" from the traditional classroom to the online space in a way that keeps students engaged. This paper explores new…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Agustí Canals; Josep Cobarsí-Morales; Eva Ortoll – Online Learning, 2025
The idea of social capital as the value obtainable from an individual's social relationships has been used to study many organizational and social settings, but rarely virtual environments. We used data from an online higher education institution to examine how an individual's social capital derived from her position in the social structure…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Capital, Academic Achievement, Social Structure
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Joni Tzuchen Tang; Dejun Mo – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study aims to explore the application of Transactional Distance theory in distance teaching in the post-epidemic era. COVID-19 has brought us unprecedented challenges in all schools in the world. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can solve the technical problems of distance learning, but cannot bring efficient learning just…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Analisa Flores; Lauren Parker Cappiello; Isaac Quintanilla Salinas – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in early months of 2020, education at all levels was pushed to emergency fully remote, online formats. This emergency shift affected all aspects of teaching and learning with very little notice and often with limited resources. Educators were required to convert entire courses online and shift to remote…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Distance Education
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Chen, Julian; Bogachenko, Tatiana – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This pilot study explores and documents online students' and their lecturer's debut experiences of utilising VoiceThread (VT), a digital multimodal platform, as an alternative discussion space via Open Universities Australia (OUA). Feedback from the lecturer's teaching log and interview was corroborated with his OUA students' survey responses, and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Education, Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication
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Presley, Regina; Cumberland, Denise M.; Rose, Kevin – Online Learning, 2023
Over the last decade, the prevalence of online courses has continued to grow, and students in higher education are being offered increased access to technology and communication tools in online learning programs. This action research study analyzed the impact of two distinct types of online course instruction (100% asynchronous and weekly online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Graduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
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Maisoon Samara; Abdallah Algdah; Yahya Nassar; Shahla Abu Zahra; Mona Halim; Refka Makram Megli Barsom – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2023
COVID-19 has changed the landscape of education forever. Online education has become the new normal for many graduate students with the pandemic outbreak. While online education is more cost-effective, there is little research on how online education has impacted graduate students academically. This study aimed to assess graduate students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses
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Gunawardhana, L. K. Pulasthi Dhananjaya – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
E-learning is the best platform for distance learning as it is a cost-efficient technology. Distance learning through an E-Learning platform offers enormous opportunity for Sri Lanka, because it can open doors to everybody without hassle. Distance learning with E-Learning focuses on delivering education to students without a traditional classroom.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication
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Ebubekir Kaba; Engin Kursun; Alper Aslan; Yigit Emrah Turgut – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2024
This action research aims to investigate the determinants of asynchronous interaction among students, interaction between students and instructors, and interaction with course content in an online learning environment. The study involves fifteen graduate students from a state university as participants. The research employed multiple data…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Sarma, Anna Marina; Gkila, Pinelopi; Armakolas, Stefanos – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2023
This qualitative survey studies the perceptions of adult students enrolled in a teacher training programme in Greece. It examines synchronous distance education, the Microsoft Teams platform, and the prospect of strengthening and establishing this type of education after the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey used the semi-structured interview as a…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education
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Huang, Yan – College Student Journal, 2021
Higher education institutions are increasingly offering online courses, forcing a growing number of faculty members, who are accustomed to the traditional face-to-face method of teaching, to adapt to the rigors of the new technology. Although students demonstrate more positive attitudes and superior academic performance when engaging in highly…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Online Courses, Health Promotion, Electronic Learning
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