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Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner; Blau, Ina; Vine, Yodfat; Billet, Amit – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
The goal of this study is to further corroborate a hypothesized population parameter for the frequencies of social presence versus the sum of teaching presence and cognitive presence as defined by the community of inquiry model in higher education asynchronous course forums. This parameter has been found across five variables: academic institution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Inquiry, Communities of Practice
Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner; Antonovsky, Avishai; Blau, Ina; Mansur, Asmahan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students' and instructors' active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Open Universities, Intellectual Disciplines, Natural Sciences
Gorsky, Paul; Blau, Ina – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
Upon completion of a graduate level course at the Open University of Israel, one instructor received very high student ratings while the other received very low ratings. We utilized this exceptional situation to perform ad hoc analyses of their course forums. The objective of this study was to map the dialogic behavior that occurred and to create…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Online Courses, Foreign Countries, Best Practices

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