A case study of integrating Interwise: Interaction, internet self-efficacy, and satisfaction in synchronous online learning environments
Author(s)
Kuo, Yu-Chun; Jackson State UniversityWalker, Andrew E.; Utah State University
Belland, Brian R.; Utah State University
Schroder, Kerstin E. E.; University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kuo, Yu-Tung; National Chiao Tung University
Keywords
Distance Educationlearner-learner interaction; learner-instructor interaction; Internet self-efficacy; synchronous learning; satisfaction
Full record
Show full item recordOnline Access
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1664Abstract
This paper reports research on the implementation of a web-based videoconferencing tool (Interwise) for synchronous learning sessions on an industrial technology course offered through a university in northern Taiwan. The participants included undergraduate students from the same course offered in two different semesters. We investigated students' perceptions of interactions with the instructor and fellow students, their confidence in utilizing the Internet (Internet self-efficacy), and the satisfaction level that students perceived throughout the learning process with Interwise. We also examined the effect of interactions and Internet self-efficacy on student satisfaction. Data collected through paper-based and online surveys were analyzed using correlation and multiple regression. The results revealed that overall, learners perceived Interwise as a tool that was moderately easy to use for synchronous learning. Learners seemed to prefer using the Interwise features, such as emotion icons, talk, or raise hand, to interact with their instructor. Learners had high confidence in gathering data or getting support through the Internet, but low confidence in resolving Internet related problems. Both learner-learner and learner-instructor interactions were significant predictors of student satisfaction, while Internet self-efficacy did not significantly contribute to satisfaction. Learner-instructor interaction was found to be the strongest predictor of student satisfaction.Date
2014-01-15Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/articleIdentifier
oai:www.irrodl.org:article/1664http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1664
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Student Leadership Conference Report 2010Santiago, Joseph A; Edmonds, Maxwell; Knoll, Christina (DigitalCommons@URI, 2010-02-17)This is the Student Leadership Conference Attendees Report from the retreat. This is the start of the I AM U-URI Unity in Difference group on campus.
-
The National Council for Higher Education and the Growth of the University Sub-sector in Uganda, 2002-2012Kasozi, A.B.K. (Dakar, SenegalCODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), 2019-03-25)I am very pleased to write this short forword to this book. It is clear in retrospect
 that the NCHE made considerable contributions to the development of higher
 education in Uganda in the period 2002 to 2012. In that period, a regulatory
 institution was started from scratch, its administrative structure put in place,
 benchmarks for assuring the delivery of quality higher education designed,
 higher education institutions licensed, nurtured, and monitored, research in
 universities encouraged, publications and displays of higher education ideas
 initiated through journals and public exhibitions. The NCHE supervised the
 expansion of universities from ten in 2002 to over thirty in 2012 and a growth
 of enrollment from 80,000 to 180,000 students in the same years. Above all, a
 culture of transparency and integrity in the conducting of public administration
 at the NCHE was established.
-
Special Events at BaylorBaylor UniversityThis collection documents special events at Baylor that are not otherwise captured in crawls for Student Life, Constituent Engagement, etc., such as Homecoming, Parent and Family Weekend, and Diadeloso. It also documents Baylor's response to significant events like the April 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in the nearby city of West, Texas.