id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_3e66bfkgmzgefjabt3n3qfe56a Chih-Hsiung Tu The Relationship of Social Presence and Interaction in Online Classes 2002 22 .pdf application/pdf 7458 1326 60 Presence and Interaction in Online Classes, American Journal of Distance Education, The purpose of this research was to study social presence in the online learning environment. Social presence is a measure of the feeling of community that a learner experiences in an online environment. There is not a clear definition of social presence for CMC in the literature (Rafaeli 1988; Walther and Burgoon 1992; Svenning and Ruchinskas Three dimensions of social presence were proposed from previous studies: social context, online communication, and interactivity (Tu 2000, Task types influence the degree of social presence and communication However, as time passes, CMC users are driven to develop social relationships by forming impressions of others through the text-based information conveyed. Eight semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with students to explore particular concepts in social presence, such as "How do you feel when you communicate with Five factors (social context, online communication, interactivity, ./cache/work_3e66bfkgmzgefjabt3n3qfe56a.pdf ./txt/work_3e66bfkgmzgefjabt3n3qfe56a.txt