Author(s)

Dongping Liu, Han Chen, Yue Wang, Shuqi Li, Wan Qin

Corresponding Author

Dongping Liu

Abstract

Short educational videos have become the main way of informal learning and mobile learning for college students. It is important to explore the presence of college students learning in short educational videos. This study conducted a survey to investigate the level of cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence of learning college students learning in short educational videos and analyze the correlation between them based on COI framework. The participants are 514 college students from different universities in China. The findings of this study indicate the level of cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence was relatively high. Each dimension of COI framework has a significant positive correlation. Furthermore, the influence of demographic variables such as gender and college academic phase on cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence was also investigated. Based on these findings, suggestions for the college students learning in short educational videos were put forward.

Keywords

College Students, Short Educational Videos, Cognitive Presence, Social Presence, Teaching Presence