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Online Learning at Higher Education

The Mediating Role of the Fear of COVID-19 Between Students’ Sustainable Engagement and Their Social Presence

Authors
Farhat Munir1, Iqra Saeed1, *, Aleena Shuja1
1University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
*Corresponding author. Email: ikrasaeed23@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Iqra Saeed
Available Online 31 August 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-098-5_33How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Online Learning; Students Engagement; Social Presence; Fear of COVID-19
Abstract

Students’ engagement and social presence are the most critical components for effective online learning. Despite all technological advancements online teaching and learning is still a challenge, especially during emergencies. The pandemic COVID-19 situation has unlocked new dimensions of research in online teaching and learning to explore better engagement and interaction strategies, especially at higher education. Therefore, keeping in consideration the significance of the area this cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted through simple random sampling of a total of 422 university students by using the explanatory research design to explore the relationships between student engagement (SE) and social presence. The findings of this study revealed that the six dimensions of students’ engagement is significantly associated with the social presence in online learning. Teacher-student interaction enhances social presence and student engagement, accumulates trust and associations, and communication through teachers’ answers in online learning. While fear of COVID-19 has insignificant mediated effects on students’ engagement as well as on their social presence in online learning.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication and Media 2022 (i-COME 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 August 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-098-5_33
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-098-5_33How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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