Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses

Blended learning is a hybrid of classroom and online learning that includes some of the conveniences of online courses without the complete loss of face-to-face contact. The present study used a causal-comparative design to examine the relationship of sense of community between traditional classroom...

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Autores principales: Alfred P. Rovai, Hope Jordan
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Publicado: Athabasca University Press 2004
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:40a2a365198f4deba3cddd5c27ae1eaf2021-12-02T19:26:01ZBlended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses10.19173/irrodl.v5i2.1921492-3831https://doaj.org/article/40a2a365198f4deba3cddd5c27ae1eaf2004-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/192https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Blended learning is a hybrid of classroom and online learning that includes some of the conveniences of online courses without the complete loss of face-to-face contact. The present study used a causal-comparative design to examine the relationship of sense of community between traditional classroom, blended, and fully online higher education learning environments. Evidence is provided to suggest that blended courses produce a stronger sense of community among students than either traditional or fully online courses. Keywords: Blended learning, sense of community, higher education, online learning, computer-mediated communication, faculty trainingAlfred P. RovaiHope JordanAthabasca University PressarticleSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 5, Iss 2 (2004)
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Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses
description Blended learning is a hybrid of classroom and online learning that includes some of the conveniences of online courses without the complete loss of face-to-face contact. The present study used a causal-comparative design to examine the relationship of sense of community between traditional classroom, blended, and fully online higher education learning environments. Evidence is provided to suggest that blended courses produce a stronger sense of community among students than either traditional or fully online courses. Keywords: Blended learning, sense of community, higher education, online learning, computer-mediated communication, faculty training
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title Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses
title_short Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses
title_full Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses
title_fullStr Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses
title_full_unstemmed Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional and Fully Online Graduate Courses
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