Building modern online social presence: A review of social presence theory and its instructional design implications for future trends

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 661-685

  Cui, Guoqiang ^a   Lockee, Barbara ^a   Meng, Cuiqing ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YANTAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Instructional design; Online learning; Social presence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883050369     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-012-9192-1     Document Type: Review

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