Keywords
teaching learning virtual environment
theory of mind network
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Abstract
The present work studies the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the measure of social presence in Harms and Biocca (2004) minds of network (Networked Minds Social Presence Measure) in a sample of 94 university students in Arica, Chile, who make use of virtual teaching and learning environment VLE UTAmed. Reliability and an exploratory factor analysis were conducted with principal components and varimax rotation, and subsequent confirmatory factor analysis. The results show the existence of five subscales with a total of 23 items that explain 81.25% of the variance, a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.94, and an adequate adjustment of the model. Additionally, the study confirms a positive relationship between social presence and perceived learning. The study allows us to have a shorter instrument, and adapted to the measurement of social presence in virtual environments for teaching and learning with better results well compared to the existing instruments.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.