Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.37074/jalt.2022.5.1.13

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching

Volume

5

Issue

1

Pages

27-39

Abstract

Effective online interaction is beyond interacting with whomever. The quality of social interconnectivity matters. Social presence plays a vital role in building an effective online learning community. This study empirically examined: how online social presence will predict various aspects of students’ social interconnectivities (i.e., in-degree, out-degree, betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, eigenvector centrality, reciprocated vertex pair ratio, & PageRank) in the social network of discussion board within an online course? The predictive utility of social presence for all social network interconnectivity was supported, but reciprocated vertex pair ratio, so-called two-way interconnectivity was not. Social presence serves as a strong predictor for social interaction and interconnectivity. Learners with higher social presence are more likely to play distinguished roles of influencer, liaison, transmitter, social strategist, and prestigious figure of a community of learners. The findings would support online instructors to facilitate, guide, and support their students to navigate through the convoluted social interconnectivity effectively and continuously.

Rights

© 2022 Cherng-Jyh Yen, Chih-Hsiung Tu, Moussa Tankari, Emrah Emre Ozkeskin, Hoda Harati and Alexandra Miller.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Original Publication Citation

Yen, C.-J., Tu, C.-H., Tankari, M., Ozkeskin, E. E., Harati, H., & Miller, A. (2022). A predictive study of students social presence and their interconnectivities in the social network interaction of online discussion board. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, 5(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.37074/jalt.2022.5.1.13

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