Social Presence Visualizer: Development of the Collaboration Facilitation Module on CSCL

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Abstract

This study aims to develop and evaluate a visualization function of CSCL that is based on social presence. This function automatically categorizes the postings from learners and visually presents social interaction following a social presence indicator. Furthermore, this function seems to enhance social presence and encourage learning behavior, such as active discussion. In order to investigate the validity of auto-categorization, the inter-rater agreement rate and the ability to predict the quality of the discussion were analyzed and compared to the human-categorized data. The results demonstrated that there are several social presence indicators that have high and low inter-rater agreement, but the categorization of the function developed in this study had more prediction power than the human-conducted categorization.

Keywords

Community of inquiry Social interaction Social presence Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Visualization 
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Acknowledgement

This research is financially supported by Grant-in-Aids for Young Scientist A (25702008) and for Scientific Research (B) (16H03080)

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Faculty of Arts and ScienceKyushu UniversityFukuokaJapan
  2. 2.Cyber Security CenterKyushu UniversityFukuokaJapan
  3. 3.Graduate School of Instructional SystemsKumamoto UniversityKumamotoJapan

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