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What is cognitive presence in distance education?

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Teaching Presence  Teaching presence  is the planning and designing  that go into building your  course  and what you do "in the moment" when interacting with the students. The parts of  teaching presence  that occur while the  course  is in session include facilitation of discourse and direct instruction. Social Presence Social presence  involves a level of connection among teachers and students that determines how motivated participants are to take an active role in their own and perceived as a real person. Transactional Presence Transactional Presence ,” refers to the degree to which a  distance  student perceives the availability of, and connectedness with, people in his/her classroom and feeling connected to his/her friends.      Cognitive Presence Cognitive presence  is the extent to which  learners  are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse.      Educational Experience The intersection part of the mind map is the effective pro

Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning

Research suggests that multimedia messages that are designed in light of how the human mind works are more likely to lead to meaningful learning. The cognitive theory of multimedia learning is based on three cognitive science principles of learning. Three instructional goals are to reduce extraneous processing, manage essential processing, and foster generative processing. Multimedia instructional messages should be designed to guide appropriate cognitive processing during learning without overloading the learner's cognitive system, according to the theory.