Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 10 Nov 1999 to 11 Nov 1999
From: Kathryn Williams (williams_kathryn@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 11 Nov 1999 - 21:13:50 MET
From: "Kathryn Williams" <williams_kathryn@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 10 Nov 1999 to 11 Nov 1999 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:13:50 GMT
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Response to Molly, and all contributers,
> Indeed, for me this has been a very valuable and enlightening discussion
>=
> > and I look forward to continuing conversations.
> > In our discussions of transactional distance theory have we been
>focussing
> > on a narrow range of media and 'transactions'? I am thinking here of
>vrtual
> > reality and simulations that stretch us to imagine different formsor
>media for
> facilitating open inquiry/learning. I hope there are some lurkers who
>might
> step-in to elaborate on this, because as educators I think we need to
>be
> anticipating new tools with which our not so future students are going
>to be
> much more familiar and quite impatient to use.
As a new lurker to this discussion I have found the topics and issues both
stimulating and of considerable use. I am starting a PhD looking at dialogue
in both formal and informal settings as a prelude to (hopefully) creating a
new means of providing the informal learning situation to distance learners,
i.e. where two students meet on campus and start a conversation, often there
is an interchange of ideas relating to their work which enlightens one or
both.
Similarily in a tutorial situation, one learner can observe a discussion and
learn from following what others say.
There seems to me to be an issue here not only of geographical distance, but
of formal and informal discussion, peer to peer and peer to tutor
interaction and therefore also transactional distance.
As I am only starting to learn about many of these issues I am on a steep
learning curve, and any direction that contributers can give me.
Kathryn Williams
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