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Ruonan Zhang1, Nicky Chang Bi2, Trinidee Mercado3
1Department of Communication and Theatre Auburn University at Montgomery Montgomery Alabama USA.
Background:
Online learning and teaching were globally popularized due to the impact of Covid-19. The pandemic has made both synchronous and asynchronous online learning inevitable in regions privileged with the technological affordance.
Aims:
This study was designed to examine and compare the effectiveness of both learning modes through the Community of Inquiry framework.
Materials & Methods:
Comparative analyses on a sample of N = 170 undergraduate students who took both synchronous and asynchronous online courses in Spring 2021.
Results:
The paired-sample T-tests results indicated a significant difference in social presence, cognitive presence and self-evaluated performance.
Discussion & Conclusion:
Teaching presence significantly influenced social presence and cognitive presence in both learning modes. However, under synchronous learning mode, social presence significantly impacted self-evaluation, grades and school identification. While social presence only influenced school identification under asynchronous learning mode. Theoretical and practical implications were also included.
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