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Distance Education

Distance Education. Basic Challenges. Overcoming isolation. Distance education students often feel isolated Overcoming this isolation is a challenge Best when students communicate with each other, building their own learning community. Strategies for Overcoming Isolation. Chat

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Distance Education

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  1. Distance Education Basic Challenges

  2. Overcoming isolation • Distance education students often feel isolated • Overcoming this isolation is a challenge • Best when students communicate with each other, building their own learning community

  3. Strategies for Overcoming Isolation • Chat • “Office hours” • Bulletin Boards • Listservs

  4. Access & Motivation • Learning about the benefits of computer moderated discussion boards • Learning the course requirements • Setting up and configuring software • Navigating to the Bulletin Board

  5. Socialization • Overcoming shyness and making introductions • Some enjoy being ‘faceless’ • Some ‘lurk’ before contributing • Introducing netiquette

  6. Information Exchange • Learn to use the information resources supplied • Learn to search & use the Internet • Share information • Help others with solutions to problems • Information overload may become a problem • Silence is OK, but look for dropouts

  7. Knowledge Construction & Development • Students participate more • interaction via responding to each other • Students take responsibility for their own learning • Introduce new discussion threads • Suggest alternative approaches • Support each other • Teacher becomes a participant, not a teacher

  8. Evaluation • Provide opportunities for • students to reflect on their own learning and contribution • feedback on the learning experience • Reflect and revise teaching strategies

  9. Reference Salmon, Gilly. (2000). E-moderating: the key to teaching and learning online. London: Kogan Page. ISBN 0 7494 3110 5http://oubs.open.ac.uk/

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