Learning with Invisible Others: Perceptions of Online Presence and Their Relationship to Cognitive and Affective Learning

Tracy Russo; Spencer Benson

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 1 (2005) pp. 54–62

This study investigated the relationship between student perceptions of others in an online class and both affective and cognitive learning outcomes. Data were gathered from student survey responses and instructor evaluation of performance. Results...

Prestige, Centrality, and Learning: A Social Network Analysis of an Online Class

Tracy C. Russo; Joy Koesten

Communication Education Vol. 54, No. 3 (July 2005) pp. 254–261

This study explored relations between social network characteristics in an online graduate class and two learning outcomes: affective and cognitive learning. The social network analysis data were compiled by entering the number of one-to-one...

Perceptions of Mediated Presence in an Asynchronous Online Course: Interplay of Communication Behaviors and Medium

Tracy Callaway Russo; Scott W. Campbell

Distance Education Vol. 25, No. 2 (Oct 01, 2004) pp. 215–232

This investigation of student perceptions of mediated presence in an online college class yielded two key findings. First, perceptions of the instructor's mediated presence were significantly higher than perceptions of the other students' presence....

What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate: Social Media Best Practices for Graduate School Programs

Joshua Rosenberg; Colin Terry; John Bell; Virginia Hiltz; Tracy Russo; The EPET Social Media Council

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1340–1345

There is a need to investigate the role of, and best practices for, social media use in graduate school programs from an institutional perspective. Graduate students and faculty in the Michigan State University Educational Psychology and Educational ...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies

Design Guidelines for Graduate Program Social Media Use

Joshua M. Rosenberg; Colin A. Terry; John Bell; Virginia Hiltz; Tracy E. Russo

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 60, No. 2 (2016) pp. 167–175

Social media provides a promising platform for members of informal and formal educational communities to build community, collaborate, and support institutional goals such as student recruitment. Despite burgeoning research on the educational uses...