The study investigates how social presence and different tools of communication used by the students at the IT-distance programme Informatics with Focus on Systems Development at Mid Sweden University affects the quality of communication and how the quality of communication can be improved. The data for the study is collected from six semistructured interviews, the participants are students taking the sixth and last term at the programme. Parts of the questions used during interviews derive from the framework Community of Inquiry (CoI) by Randy Garrison, Terry Anderson and Walter Archer. CoI is a framework for measuring three types of presence: Cognitive presence, Teaching presence and Social presence. The purpose of the framework is to measure when deep and meaningful learning arise in education. What quality of communication is, is described by the students participating in the interviews, which means that a certain breadth of different interpretations are explained and summarized. The result of the study consists partly of quantitative data that comes from the questions received from the CoI-survey and qualitative data from questions where students responded freely. Through interviews and analysis, a number of proposals are presented on how the quality of communication can be improved.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:miun-31461 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Hörsell, Joachim |
| Publisher | Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för data- och systemvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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