I am a doctoral student who is working on a two part study (casual comparative and true experimental design) exploring how the use of synchronous audio/visual CMC systems such as Wimba, as a complement to asynchronous CMC systems, in online courses enhances or detracts from students’ sense of presence and learning. Results should be released in August 2009.
I am still currently seeking faculty willing and able to assist me in collecting data for my significant and timely dissertation study. Specifically, I am seeking faculty across the country who are teaching online counseling, human service, psychology, social work , or highly related courses (delivered asynchronously or both asynchronously and synchronously) to participate. During the final two to three weeks of their courses, I am asking faculty to take a few minutes to send a participation letter to their students that requests students’ voluntary and anonymous participation in an online survey (about 60 questions). If you know a colleague who would be interested, able, and willing to participate in the casual comparative part of this study in Spring 2009 (16-week; 8-week ;5-week, etc.), please feel free to contact me at amanroc@regent.edu.
P.S. Someone on this forum asked about research regarding Wimba and blended courses; thus far, in my research, I have found limited studies on this topic. Bonk and Park (2007) and Wang & Chen (2007) have published on similar topics.