Mary Harrsch (Mary_Harrsch@ccmail.uoregon.edu)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:18:01 -0700
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:18:01 -0700 From: Mary Harrsch <Mary_Harrsch@ccmail.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: RE: [ifets] Efficiency gains in interactivity
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I did want to point out differences I have observed in student interaction
when a course is enhanced with e-mail and online chat. In a course offered
through our College of Business entitled "Technology and Organizational
Behavior", populated with mostly international students where English was a
second language, the instructor received more in depth questions and
discussions from students via e-mail than f2f in the classroom. E-mail
discussion gave the students a chance to compose their thoughts and select
the correct words with the meanings they intended where classroom discussion
often proceeded at a pace they found difficult to maintain.
Mary Harrsch
Network and Information Systems Manager
College of Education
102-K Education
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
(541) 346-3554
http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/index.htm
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Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: RE: [ifets] Efficiency gains in interactivity
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Joe Beckman wrote,
>There is a growing body of evidence that the social interaction online is
>distinctly different from previous media. Students interact with each
>other,they chat, email, and collaborate in projects, and they guide
>each other into and out of more critical analysis of many faculty and
>institutional byways. In many ways these chats are more substantial
>than f2f chats, and create a social network which may extend well
>beyond the social network of f2f schooling (at any age, incidentally).
What other media are being identified here? If distance education by
print materials and broadcast items is what is being identified then
the interaction on-line is an improvement. As for better than f2f I
have serious doubts. Much is *claimed* for new media but there is
little empirical evidence for what actually goes on when education is
on-line.
For that matter there is little effort put into describing what went on
before. Often traditional methods are set up as straw(men)persons,
simply for the new methods to knock down.I think it is still not clear
how distinct social interaction on-line is.
Chris
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Chris Jones
C.R.Jones1@livjm.ac.uk
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