Measuring perceived social presence in distributed learning groups

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 365-381

  Kreijns, Karel ^a,b   Kirschner, Paul A ^a   Jochems, Wim ^c   van Buuren, Hans ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Applied Physics and Science Education   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Sociability; Social affordances; Social presence; Social presence scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051687078     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-010-9135-7     Document Type: Article

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