Charlotte "Lani" Gunawardena

Charlotte "Lani" Gunawardena is a distinguished professor in the Organization, Information and Learning Science program at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Gunawardena received a bachelor's degree from the University of Sri Lanka in 1976. After that, in 1982 and in 1986, respectively, she obtained a master's degree in education and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Kansas. Some of her most cited work includes

• Gunawardena, C. N. (1997) Social presence as a predictor of satisfaction within a computer-mediated conferencing environment. American journal of distance education 11(3), 8-26.

• Gunawardena, C. N. (1997) Analysis of global online debate and the development of an interaction analysis model for examining social construction of knowledge in computer conferencing. Journal of educational computing research 17(4), 397-431.

• Gunawardena, C. N. (1995) Social presence theory and implications for interaction and collaborative learning in computer conferences. International journal of educational telecommunications 1(2), 147-166.

Video:

• Culturally Inclusive Instructional Design for Online Learning

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