In order to get the valid and complete feedback, the writer should have included both the experienced as well as novice students in this study. The reason is that experienced students may not be able to point out the real problems as compared to novice students, who are much more aware of their surrounding and notice things more. The correct approach would have been to take feedback from both the experienced as well as the new student, in order to synthesize the correct result. Choosing old student would not make this research very authenticated. One more thing that is worth point out is that social presence can be felt by student if they experience any feedback from fellow students, but in case of online education which does not contain interaction between students, so how will social presence be judged there.
The concept discussed in this article reflects the work of many well-known educationalists. For example, the idea of social presence in learning was also presented by Dewey when he called education as a 'social continuity of life' (Dewey, 1930). For him the process of education starts from the day the child is born and ends when his or her life ends. From this meaning of education, it is much clear that there is a strong connection between social life, society as well as education. Similarly the concept of online education is quite similar to the concept presented by Kirkpatrick, in which he believed that a teacher should act as a guide, not as a leader or a commander, the whole concept of online education reflected this concept in which the teacher has a role of acting as an instructor and a guide, which in total contrast to the conventional class room environment.
The need for a teacher during learning is prominent in almost each and every theory ever proposed by the educationalists. Whether it is Plato who wanted children to be...
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