Educational Experience - Revision

Educational Experience is a theory that aims to offer students and teachers optimum learning and teaching experience. Involving both students and teachers, educational experience creates a meaningful, effective, interactive, facilitated, assisted and "experience-full" environment by basing its foundations on four factors: cognitive presence, social presence, teaching presence, and transactional presence.

Here are the four factors:

Cognitive presence is the significant element in which students confront with the information, discuss/ think critically over the subject, create new ideas, and share them with other students, with the help of activities and tasks whereby the students get to establish and maintain an interaction to spread the ideas being in touch. Cognitive presence is based on the iterative relationship between personal and shared dialogue.

Social presence is what a student need to feel during the class. Feeling to belong to a particular place and feeling the closeness enable students to feel safe. Eye contact, smiling, body language and conversations set social presence. Intimate relationships, collobration, cooperation are also key factors.

Teaching presence is the theory of design, facilitation, direction of cognitive and social processes. To obtain the successful results of education, a teacher should be the helper of students by facilitating, monitoring and creating the most appropriate conditions for students.

Transactional presence means feeling connected to others - the other members of the society. Establishing a satisfying relationship is important for students to interact with other students. Personally engaged, students get to recognize each other and maintain it in their way to accomplishment.