摘要：More social presence in online learning environment was seen to be one of theimportant predictors of students’ academic performance. However, patterns ofstudents’ Online Social Presence (OSP) when using social networking tools forlearning has not been widely discussed in previous studies. Therefore, this studywas aimed to investigate the patterns of students’ OSP. Moreover, this study aimedto find which patterns of students’ OPS that correlated to their AcademicPerformance (AP). The investigated patterns of OSP are Social Respect (SR),Social Sharing (SS), Open Mind (OM), Social Identity (SI) and Intimacy (I). Thequantitative methods of data collection and data analysis were used in this study.The data were collected from 65 students in one of Malaysian Public Universities.OSP Questionnaire (OSPQ) was adopted to collect the required data. The datawere analyzed using SPSS software to find mean, standard deviation for eachpattern of students’ OSP. Moreover, Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient was used toanalyze the correlation between each pattern of students’ OSP and AP. Thefindings of this study showed that all patterns of OSP were highly perceived by therespondents of the study. Moreover, Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient outcomeshowed high and significant correlation between SR, SS, OM and SI with students’AP while the correlation between Intimacy and AP was low.
关键词：online social presence; social respect; social sharing; open mind; social;identity; intimacy; academic performance
