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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Teacher Immediacy Behaviors and Participation in Computer Mediated Communication - Mestan Kucuk, TOJDE
Online learning courses and degree programs give opportunities to a wide and diverse population of learners to participate in educational programs in which social, psychological, or geographical constraints once may have been key limiting factors in furthering one’s education. However, a major challenge in distance online courses is to develop an effective learning environment where both instructors and students feel connected and responsible for learning. The literature reveals that one of the most important factors of student motivation and achievement is to contact with the instructor and to interact with peers. At this point, professionals stress the important role of teachers’ communication behaviors. One of those communication behaviors is “teacher immediacy”. Teacher immediacy received unsurpassed scholarly attention in the field of instructional communication over the past three decades (Richmond, Lane, & McCroskey, 2006).
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