TY - JOUR
T1 - Online teaching effectiveness
T2 - A tale of two instructors
AU - Gorsky, Paul
AU - Blau, Ina
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Upon completion of a graduate level course at the Open University of Israel, one instructor received very high student ratings while the other received very low ratings. We utilized this exceptional situation to perform ad hoc analyses of their course forums. The objective of this study was to map the dialogic behavior that occurred and to create suggestions for best practice and for worst practice in terms of active and passive participation, instructor response time, and the extent of teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence.
AB - Upon completion of a graduate level course at the Open University of Israel, one instructor received very high student ratings while the other received very low ratings. We utilized this exceptional situation to perform ad hoc analyses of their course forums. The objective of this study was to map the dialogic behavior that occurred and to create suggestions for best practice and for worst practice in terms of active and passive participation, instructor response time, and the extent of teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence.
KW - Best practice
KW - Community of inquiry model
KW - Dialogic behavior
KW - Effective online teaching
KW - Role of online instructor
KW - Virtual learning community
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349406458&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.19173/irrodl.v10i3.712
DO - 10.19173/irrodl.v10i3.712
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AN - SCOPUS:70349406458
SN - 1492-3831
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 27
JO - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
JF - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
IS - 3
ER -