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It Helped Push Me Through the Class’: Community College Student Perceptions of the Role of Instructor Immediacy Behaviors in Completing an Online Course
| العنوان: | It Helped Push Me Through the Class’: Community College Student Perceptions of the Role of Instructor Immediacy Behaviors in Completing an Online Course |
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| المؤلفون: | Michelle Orcutt, Grant Jackson, Stephanie Jones |
| المصدر: | Online Learning, Vol 28, Iss 3 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Online Learning Consortium, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Theory and practice of education |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Theory and practice of education, LB5-3640 |
| الوصف: | For decades, the number of students enrolling in online courses has been increasing, and this trend toward online education has been further intensified as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The completion rate of online courses is not as high as in-person instruction, and researchers and practitioners have long been invested in identifying ways in which online education can be optimized. One dimension of online education that has received scholarly attention is the transactional distance that exists between students and instructors, which, if not appropriately minimized, can lead to a variety of negative student outcomes. Scholars have also identified a variety of verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviors that can help online instructors decrease this transactional distance and promote a variety of positive student outcomes. To date, the study of immediacy behaviors in online college courses has focused primarily on four-year institutions utilizing quantitative methods. As complement to this research, we interviewed 12 community college students to better understand how a particular set of immediacy behaviors (i.e., a “welcome” phone call, sending personalized emails, using humor, creating videos, and sending “check-in” emails) influenced students’ desire and ability to remain in and complete an online course. Implications of these findings for practice and future research are discussed. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2472-5749 2472-5730 |
| Relation: | https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/4080; https://doaj.org/toc/2472-5749; https://doaj.org/toc/2472-5730 |
| DOI: | 10.24059/olj.v28i3.4080 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/a406ed2f7d484166aa53f0427ad634a2 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.406ed2f7d484166aa53f0427ad634a2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 24725749 24725730 |
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| DOI: | 10.24059/olj.v28i3.4080 |