Share Paper: Perceptions of Achievement and Satisfaction as Related to Interactions in Online Courses

  1. Kristi Bordelon, Teacher Education University, United States
Tuesday, March 18 10:45 AM-11:15 AM City Terrace 4

Abstract: Students have been documented as achieving and reporting satisfaction in online instructional environments. However, the perception still exists that isolation from the instructor and other students reduces student satisfaction and achievement in an online class. It has been determined that student-instructor interaction, student-student interaction, and student-content interaction each exist in online classes and influence student perceived learning and satisfaction. What is problematic is that it has yet to be determined if a statistically significant degree of differences or variations in student-instructor interaction, student-student interaction, or student-content interaction are related to differences or variations in student perceived achievement or satisfaction in ...