Share Paper: Pedagogical Dimensions of Effective Online Asynchronous Teacher Communication in Higher Education.
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Abstract: In this research teacher behaviour in online asynchronous discussions is studied. To this end teachers’ online messages were analyzed and correlated to measures of student satisfaction. Findings show a positive relation between student satisfaction and the presence of content knowledge, multiple acknowledgement, online personality and summary of (parts of) the discussion in teacher messages. The research resulted in a scoring guideline for online teacher messages that can be used to enhance the quality of online teaching.