Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 2 Dec 1999 to 3 Dec 1999
From: William Klemm (WKLEMM@cvm.tamu.edu)
Date: Fri 03 Dec 1999 - 21:48:15 MET
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 14:48:15 -0600 From: "William Klemm" <WKLEMM@cvm.tamu.edu> Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 2 Dec 1999 to 3 Dec 1999
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Re: Increasing Interactions in Internet Courses
Internet courses commonly suffer from lack of interaction among students
and between students and teacher. No matter how sophisticated the software
is for posting and annotating messages, too many students passively read what
others write but do not contribute much on their own. How can we overcome that?
How can we create an on-line environment that promotes bonding of small learner
groups, as seems to be done more easily in face-to-face environments?
In my Internet course, I assign readings that each student has to answer and send
me an e-mail of their answers, whereupon I send them an e-mail showing how I
would have answered the questions. What would be the impact on collabortion
of changing the way we handle the readings assignments, so that each question
is answered in our computer conferencing system (FORUM98) by ONE student,
with all the others in the group annotating the answer (FORUM has built-in ability
to make in-context, pop-up notes) to clarify, expand, or correct it? What I
would then do is to post my answers in FORUM, but only after the group has
completed their work. One anticipated problem, however, would be how to deal
with stragglers, students who lag behind in their work.
Can anyone suggest some solutions, either to address the straggler issue above,
or a totally new alternative?
Bill Klemm
W. R. (Bill) Klemm, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Dept. VAPH, Mail Stop 4458
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4458
Phone: 409-845-4201
Web sites:
www.cvm.tamu.edu/wklemm
www.foruminc.com
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