"Praha" . "978-80-7478-497-2" . "research.; English for specific purposes; ICT; online course; virtual observation; social communication; communication"@en . . "Social communication in online courses under the virtual observation"@en . "Social communication in online courses under the virtual observation"@en . "1"^^ . . . . . "The paper presents results of the virtual observation which was held at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Hradec Kralove in 2007/8 - 2012/13 academic years. Data were collected in distance online courses of English for specific purposes in LMS Blackboard within the learner-tutor communication. Unlike in other analyses, not the pedagogical but social communication was monitored, just at the time when students submitted assignments to be assessed by the tutor. The submission tool provides students with opportunity to send a message to the tutor if they wish; although this activity is appreciated, it is not obligatory - it is considered a cetratin way of \u00B4social communication\u00B4, i.e. a feature of positive climate in the class. Thus the main research objective was to monitor and analyze the social communication so that to reflect the social climate in the course - the more frequent the communication is, the warmer social climate can be felt in the online course, which may make the teaching/learning process more pleasant and thus easier. More than 2,000 students participated in the given period and more than 2,400 assignments were monitored and analyzed according to 14 criteria by the methods of frequency and content analyses. The results show slight increase in the frequency of communication where rather short messages are used to socialize and middle - length sentences to explain reasons of late submissions and/or discuss other problems." . "18450" . "DIVAI 2014 : 10th International scientific conference on distance learning in applied informatics" . "1"^^ . "RIV/62690094:18450/14:50002420!RIV15-MSM-18450___" . "RIV/62690094:18450/14:50002420" . "\u0160imonov\u00E1, Ivana" . . "The paper presents results of the virtual observation which was held at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Hradec Kralove in 2007/8 - 2012/13 academic years. Data were collected in distance online courses of English for specific purposes in LMS Blackboard within the learner-tutor communication. Unlike in other analyses, not the pedagogical but social communication was monitored, just at the time when students submitted assignments to be assessed by the tutor. The submission tool provides students with opportunity to send a message to the tutor if they wish; although this activity is appreciated, it is not obligatory - it is considered a cetratin way of \u00B4social communication\u00B4, i.e. a feature of positive climate in the class. Thus the main research objective was to monitor and analyze the social communication so that to reflect the social climate in the course - the more frequent the communication is, the warmer social climate can be felt in the online course, which may make the teaching/learning process more pleasant and thus easier. More than 2,000 students participated in the given period and more than 2,400 assignments were monitored and analyzed according to 14 criteria by the methods of frequency and content analyses. The results show slight increase in the frequency of communication where rather short messages are used to socialize and middle - length sentences to explain reasons of late submissions and/or discuss other problems."@en . "V" . "2014-05-05+02:00"^^ . . "\u0160t\u00FArovo" . . . "Social communication in online courses under the virtual observation" . . "[8F4ADB5AB480]" . . "10"^^ . . . "45568" . . . . . . . "Social communication in online courses under the virtual observation" . "Wolters Kluwer \u010CR" .