Authors:
Sónia C. Sousa
1
;
David Lamas
2
and
Paulo Dias
1
Affiliations:
1
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
;
2
Tallinn University, Estonia
Keyword(s):
Trust, Socio-technical Environments, Social Interactions, Learning Online.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Collaborative Learning
;
Community Building
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Social Context and Learning Environments
Abstract:
The main goal of this paper is to present and validate a socio-technical model of trust. This model aims to
depict the implications of trust on moderating learners online interactions.
This work main motivation is focused on design ways to promote a stronger acceptance sense of community
among learners, by giving emphasis to a more active learning through collaboration and social construction
understanding.
This model aims to eventually provide the means to detect potential trust violations within an online relationship,
helping educators to move towards practices of reconciliation. This socio-technical trust model takes
into account individuals trust predispositions and other five trust attributes and establishes their role on building
relationships, and in developing underlying attitudes, behaviours and beliefs of an learning community.
This paper starts by providing a contextualization on this research background and rationale, that leads to a
the design of the preliminary explora
tory model of model of trust, describes it validation procedure by setting
results of a survey procedure.
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