Designing Social Presence in an Online MIS Course: Constructing Collaborative Knowledge with Google+ Community

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dc.contributor.affiliation Claire Ikumi Hitosugi - University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahu
dc.contributor.author Hitosugi, Claire Ikumi
dc.date.accessioned 2020-07-30T22:20:15Z
dc.date.available 2020-07-30T22:20:15Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/69172
dc.title Designing Social Presence in an Online MIS Course: Constructing Collaborative Knowledge with Google+ Community
dc.type Conference Paper
dcterms.abstract This study was conducted at a public regional undergraduate college that offered 35% of its courses entirely online in Fall 2014 and projected offering more online courses in the future. The author explored, based on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 1999), how best a Management Information Systems (MIS) course could be designed and delivered entirely online. The CoI model stipulates that social presence – participants’ ability to project themselves socially and emotionally as “real” people through the medium of communication used – is a critical component for an online course to be a success, along with cognitive and teaching presences. In order to facilitate meaningful multi-media interactions among participants, multiple web platforms including Google+ community were integrated into the course. Many students had not been familiar with Google+, nor had they created a website, before this class. Students’ feedback indicated their perception that using Google+ community and creating their own websites created a positive synergic effect and clearly established their social presence in the online course.
dcterms.extent 7 pages
dcterms.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dcterms.type Text
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