Teaching Presence, Social Presence, and Cognitive Presence as Predictors of Students' Satisfaction in an Online Program at a Saudi University
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study aimed to examine whether cognitive, social, and teaching presence were significant predictors of the overall students' satisfaction of the online program in one of the largest Saudi universities.The used research design was non-experimental and correlational in nature.Multiple regression analysis was used to determine to what extent did cognitive, social, and teaching presence predict the overall students' satisfaction.The data in this quantitative study was collected using a self-report survey.The target population was students who joined the online program, the developed Entesab program, in one of the largest Saudi universities in the eastern region.The findings of this study showed that overall regression, which had social and teaching presence, was statistically significant, F(2, 811) = 180.291,p < .05.Social presence and teaching presence both were found to explain 31.4% of the variance in students' satisfaction.The overall regression, which predicted students' satisfaction from social presence, teaching presence, and cognitive presence, was statistically significant, F(2, 811) = 166.18,p < .05,R 2 = .38.The three presences together explained 38% of the variance in students' satisfaction.Cognitive presence was found to have the largest Descriptive Statistics ................
Author: Lamees Abdulrahman Alaulamie
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Topic: Online and Blended Learning
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2297792468