Abstract
In a world in which online interactions are becoming the norm, an understanding of how three fundamental aspects of online learning (teaching presence, social presence and cognitive presence) interact is important. This paper will look at how these three presences interact with each other in an online forum. More specifically it will describe the effects of instructional design on learners’ levels of critical thinking and social presence. The research involved taking 900 learner posts from differing experimental conditions and analyzing those posts for social presence and critical thinking. The experimental conditions varied in three different ways in regards to the level of instructor control over the learning environment. The first learning environment had a low level of instructor control while the second and third had progressively high levels of instructor control over the learners’ contributions to the forum.
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