| Summary: | 碩士 === 南台科技大學 === 資訊管理系 === 92 === This study intends to explore the relationship among students’ perceived social presence, teaching presence, satisfaction and reported learning in an online learning environment. Social presence is defined as the degree to which another people feel a person who is perceived as “real” in mediated communication. It is an index of interactions between teacher and students. Teaching presence consists of instruction design and organization, facilitation discourse and direct instruction. It is an index of teacher instruction.
There are two surveys of questionnaire used in this study. Students who enrolled an online course at Southern Taiwan University of Technology during second semester of year 2003 and first semester of year 2004 were selected to form research sample. Questionnaires were administered to sample students to collect data about their perceptions of social presence, teaching presence, reported learning and satisfaction with instructor. The results indicated:
1. Student’s perception of social presence and teaching presence in overall course is significantly related to satisfaction with their instructor and perceived learning.
2. Student’s perception of social presence for individual course activities is significantly related to perceived learning.
3. Students’ perception of teaching presence is significantly related to satisfaction with their instructor and their reported learning.
4. Students’ perceived instructional design and organization, direct instruction and social presence are three important indicators to predict their reported learning.
5. Students’ perceived instructional design and organization, facilitating discourse and social presence are three important indicators to predict their satisfaction with instructor.
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