Designing Online Courses Using the Interaction Equivalence Theorem

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https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.15932

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course design, interaction equivalency theorem, literature review, interaction, costs

Abstract

Many theories have contributed to design an online course, such as Gagne’s nine levels, Garrison, Anderson and Archer’s Community of Inquiry, or even Siemens’s Connectivism. In 2003, Terry Anderson has theorized about the equivalency between student-student, student-content and student-teacher interactions. He named it the Interaction Equivalency Theorem and many studies have been developed to validate its principles. In this paper we do a Literature Review to analyze the results of the different studies about Interaction Equivalency Theorem. Moreover, with these results we foresee to bring contributions to the course design process, namely developing and delivering education that is cost affordable for all of us, based on the interaction intensity.

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Author Biography

Pedro Barbosa Cabral, LE@D - Universidade Aberta

Investigador Integrado no Laboratório de Educação a Distância e e-Learning (LE@D), Universidade Aberta, onde se encontra a desenvolver projetos relacionados com a educação digital e aberta. Finalizou o doutoramento em Educação, especialidade Educação a Distância e e-Learning, na Universidade Aberta, em 2015 e, no mesmo ano, muda-se para a Delf University of Technology nos Países Baixos como especialista na área de e-Learning, onde desenvolveu vários projetos relacionados com os Massive Open Online Courses. Atualmente é Professor Auxiliar Convidado na Universidade Aberta.

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Published

2019-02-28

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): Technology Enhanced Learning

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