Paper Info
Title
A Study of the Predictive Relationship Between Online Social Presence and ONLE Interaction
Abstract
Open Network Learning Environments ONLE are online networks that afford learners the opportunity to participate in creative content endeavors, personalized identity projections, networked mechanism management, and effective collaborative community integration by applying Web 2.0 tools in open environments. It supports social interaction by integrating User-Generated Content, Participatory Web, digital identities, social and networking linkages, and collaborative learning community to allow learners manage and tailor their social presence. The purposes of this study were to assess the predictive relationship between online social presence and overall ONLE's social interaction and examine the predictive relationships between online social presence and four dimensions of ONLE's interaction i.e., cognitive, social, networking, and integration. The results of this study did not support the role of online social presence as a predictor for overall ONLE's social interaction. Although social presence can serve as a predictor for networking and integration dimensions, social presence cannot serve as a predictor for cognitive and social dimensions. This study suggests CMC and ONLE have different dynamics in social interaction. ONLE focuses on "social and "networking" linkages to transform online learners into "network learners" to project their ideal and preferred "network social presence" rather than online social presence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.4018/jdet.2012070104
IJDET
Keywords
DocType
Volume
online social presence,social presence,network social presence,social interaction,online network,overall ONLE,online learner,ONLE Interaction,social dimension,Predictive Relationship,networking linkage,predictive relationship,Online Social Presence
Journal
10
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Michael Blocher100.34
Chih-hsiung Tu2537.36
Cherng-Jyh Yen3495.61
Junn-Yih Chan420.77