Social Design

The purpose of social designSocial design is to create a social learning environmentLearning environment” where students can interact with the teacher and peers for the purpose of positive interpersonal relationship building and subject content learning. This chapter elaborates on four social designSocial design areas: affordance, interaction, presence, and outcome. Social affordance is about what a learning environment can provide for students’ social interactions to occur. Social interaction is what happens in the learning environment. Social interaction has various forms like learner–learner interaction and learner–instructor interaction. Social presence is about what students feel when they interact with others. Social learning outcome is what students learn through social interactions with others. In addition, social learning and otherSocial presence social designSocial design considerations are also presented in this chapter.