Messages That Foster a Sense of Belonging Improve Learning and Satisfaction: An Experiment in an Online Environment

The literature in pedagogy has shown that having a sense of belonging affects learning. This paper shows the result of a communication experiment in an online environment. For six consecutive terms, the instructor taught Introduction to Statistics. The instructor added a more direct communication st...

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