id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_fbjexfufrrfclget72fcmg57zu Craig Locatis An exploratory study of co-location as a factor in synchronous, collaborative medical informatics distance education 2010 6 .pdf application/pdf 3989 467 58 interaction when videoconferencing was used to deliver instruction on telemedicine to medical students in condition where they were located in different rooms to receive the presentation and collaborate online using the teaching and technology, with the exception that more students in the dispersed condition felt more interaction instruction and technology, and interaction when students participated in a collaborative distance learning synchronous distance learning (defined as having students in class and others simultaneously participating each other in real time may increase sense of social presence and reduce transactional distance in communication, factors that are known to affect student satisfaction In the dispersed condition, students were physically separated in different rooms at the university and Table 1 Ratings of Instruction for Co-located and Dispersed Students The students in the dispersed condition rated the lecturer's encouraging interaction significantly higher than Table 2 Ratings of Communication/Technology for Co-located and Dispersed Students Table 4 Communication/Technology Ratings T-Test Results for Co-located and Dispersed Students ./cache/work_fbjexfufrrfclget72fcmg57zu.pdf ./txt/work_fbjexfufrrfclget72fcmg57zu.txt